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Problems in the Study and Teaching of National History in Indonesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

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As far back as 1913, Hoesein Djajadiningrat made a critical study of one of the sources for Indonesian history. He was the first Indonesian to do so. But his work, though important, cannot be properly considered as the beginning of modern Indonesian historiography. This came later.

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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1965

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4. Sartono Kartodirdjo, strictly speaking our first historian with an academic historical training, graduated in 1956 from the Faculty of Arts, University of Indonesia, Djakarta.

5. The two faculties in Bandung seceded and became the nucleus of the new Bandung Institute of Technoloky.

6. Republican in the sense of belonging to the Republic of Indonesia; the opposite is Dutch or “federal”, denoting everything belonging to the Dutch regime or the puppet governments sponsored by the Dutch.

7. Auxiliary disciplines help another discipline, c.q. history. Needless to say that history in its turn could also be considered an auxiliary discipline of philology, sociology, etc. Ancillary disciplines on the other hand have no separate existence outside their “service” to the historical discipline; although some of them, like archaeology have developed into a discipline in their own right.

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