indonesia: socio-cultural setting
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Socio-Cultural Setting:
Indonesia
Reported by:
Julie L. Castaño
(BSEd 3-C, Group 4)
Socio-Cultural Setting:
Indonesia
Way of Life
Men and women who live incities generally adopt Westerndress. Regionally, there are manystyles of traditional dress, butmost women wear a sarong
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Indonesia
(wrap around skirt or dress) anda kebaya, a fitted blouse. Whenparticipating in ceremonies, menoften wear a batik shirt and asarong skirt, along with asongkok, a black Muslim cap.The most popular sports in
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Indonesia
Indonesia are badminton andsoccer. Tennis has also gained agrowing following. Several formsof martial arts, including formsthat use sticks and knives, arepopular in Java and Sumatra.
Socio-Cultural Setting:
Indonesia
Rice is the staple food of mostIndonesian dishes and itspreparation varies betweenregions. The hot, spicy food fromthe Padang region can be foundin specialized Padang restaurantsthroughout most of Indonesia.
Socio-Cultural Setting:
Indonesia
Sundanese food is served inWest Java, while most placeshave a local specialty, such asgrilled fish and seafood inMakassar. Traditional Indonesiandrinks include an alcoholic wine(tuak) made from the red sugar
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Indonesia
of a palm tree. Islam forbids theconsumption of alcohol,however, so most Indonesiansdrink weak black tea with food.In cities, bottled water ispopular.
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Indonesia
Social Issues
Indonesian society hasexperienced a profound shift inthe location of wealth. For muchof the period sinceindependence in 1949, wealthwas concentrated in rural areas,
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Indonesia
particularly beyond Java. Therural elite prospered throughtheir control of land and throughtheir success as crop exporters.With industrialization in andaround the larger cities,however, the wealth has shifted
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Indonesia
to urban areas of Java and Bali.Wealth is now derived frommanufacturing, infrastructureprojects, and the services sector.
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Indonesia
A skewed pattern of incomedistribution is a growing problemin Indonesia, with manyIndonesians living in poverty,especially in rural areas. In 1996the wealthiest 10 percent ofIndonesians accounted for 30.3
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Indonesia
percent of spending, while thepoorest 10 percent accounted for3.6 percent of the country’s totalspending. Overall inequality islower in Indonesia than innearby Thailand, the Philippines,or Malaysia, or Malaysia, largely
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Indonesia
because Indonesia’s wealthiestare still a very small proportionof the population.
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Indonesia
Indonesia also has largedifferences in incomedistribution among its provinces.The provinces with the largestshares of the gross domesticproduct (GDP) are EastKalimantan, Jakarta, and Riau:
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Indonesia
East Kalimantan and Riau arerich in natural resources, andJakarta is successful in industryand services. The poorestprovinces are all in easternIndonesia: East Nusa Tenggara,West Nusa Tenggara, andSoutheast Sulawesi.
Socio-Cultural Setting:
Indonesia
Many young villagers continueto leave the rural areas for thecity, leaving many villages withconcentrations of older people.In the cities, rapid growth hasstrained services andinfrastructure beyond their
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Indonesia
limits, and most new migrants,unable to afford adequatehousing, drift to ramshacklesquatter settlements. Housingfor other Indonesians—in citiesand in villages—is little better.
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Indonesia
Culture
Indonesian culture mixes thetraditions of many civilizationsand religions, includingHinduism, Buddhism, Islam,Southeast Asian, Polynesian,Chinese, Arabic, and Dutch. Since
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Indonesia
independence, the arts inIndonesia have been influencedby domestic politics. During the1950s and 1960s the left-leaningInstitute for People’s Culture(also known as Lekra) was veryinfluential. With the backing of
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Indonesia
Sukarno, Indonesia’s firstpresident, Lekra strongly resistedAmerican cultural influence andfavored socialist realism in art.After the 1965 attempt tooverthrow Sukarno and theascension to power of Suharto in
Socio-Cultural Setting:
Indonesia
1966, there were widespreadkillings of many Indonesians,including members of the artisticelite. Many artists went intoexile and others, such as theprominent author PramoedyaAnanta Toer, were jailed. The
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Indonesia
government fostered some ofthe traditional arts of Indonesiabut maintained a close watch onmany independent strands ofcontemporary art. Permits wererequired before plays could bestaged and books were banned
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Indonesia
with little explanation. As aresult, during the Suharto yearstensions permeated the arts inmodern Indonesia, whileIndonesian artists in exile werean aging but active presence.Suharto stepped down in May
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Indonesia
1998, and artistic activity hasflowered in Indonesia under hismore liberal successors.
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Indonesia
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