1B Pursuit of National Unity (Indonesia)

Question 1

Language policies

Answer 1

• Minority language Bahasa Indonesia as national languages
• Exclusively used in government, education, military etc.
• Majority languages could be taught in education

Question 2

National Ideology

Answer 2

Pancasila (God, nationalism, humanitarianism, social justice and democracy)

Question 3

Policies to promote Pancasila

Answer 3

• Civil servants required to pass a course on Pancasila (1978-1998)
• Pancasila indoctrination in village development ‘ARBI enters the village’ (1980)
• New subject ‘Pancasila moral education’ in 1975
• Pancasila Promotion Programme (1981)

Question 4

Education policies

Answer 4

• Centre of Language Development which standardised Bahasa Indonesia
• Pusat Bahasa which provided TV series, lectures and courses
• Complete secularism in education

Question 5

Pancasila moral education

Answer 5

1975

Question 6

Pancasila Promotion Programme

Answer 6

1981

Question 7

Approach towards Outer Islanders

Answer 7

• Discriminatory transmigration policies
• Coercive

Question 8

Free Aceh Movement

Answer 8

1976

Question 9

Rebellion in Aceh

Answer 9

1976-2005

Question 10

Military Operation Zone in Aceh (DOM)

Answer 10

1989-1998

Question 11

Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Timor-Leste (FREITLIN)

Answer 11

Nov 1975

Question 12

Santa Cruz Massacre

Answer 12

1991

Question 13

Prohibiting Chinese from retail trade

Answer 13

1959

Question 14

Banning of Indonesian citizens of foreign descent from studying in Chinese schools

Answer 14

1957

Question 15

Closure of most Chinese schools

Answer 15

1965

Question 16

Basic Policy for the Solution of the Chinese Problem

Answer 16

1967-1969
Chinese religion limited to family, Regulation of religious celebrations

Question 17

Name-changing regulation

Answer 17

1966

Question 18

Special identification cards for Chinese

Answer 18

1978

Question 19

Anti-Chinese riots

Answer 19

1998