Home Institution
Occidental College
Publication Date
Spring 2017
Abstract
Indonesia’s education system was developed with the construction of the Indonesian as a cohesive people in mind. In doing so, the system adopted the practice of mandatory religious education as a means of developing the character of the Indonesian student through religion, a component imperative to the nation’s statehood. In the years and decades following, the education system, and subsequently its program of religious education, has been reformed and changed many times. This research attempts to look at how and why this changed system has struggled to implement these changes in the classroom, and why pluralism has been included in theory but not in practice in the education system specific to Bali.
Disciplines
Asian Studies | Educational Leadership | Education Policy | Politics and Social Change | Religion | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education | Sociology of Religion
Recommended Citation
Birch, Nikolai O., "Pluralism and Religious Education In Bali: How lack of implementation of educational reform threatens Indonesian identity in the system used to construct it" (2017). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 2621.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/2621
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Asian Studies Commons, Educational Leadership Commons, Education Policy Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Religion Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education Commons, Sociology of Religion Commons
Program Name
Indonesia: Arts, Religion, and Social Change