The Indonesia-Malaysia cultural heritage disputes: A case study of the Pendet dance and rasa Sayange folk song

This article analyses the role of nationalism and power politics (external/domestic) in shaping Indonesia’s relations with Malaysia during the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY). More specifically, it examines how nationalism, namely domestic nationalist pressure interacts wi...

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Main Authors: Lai, Yew Meng, Yusten Karulus
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spelling my.ums.eprints.337102022-08-11T02:27:28Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33710/ The Indonesia-Malaysia cultural heritage disputes: A case study of the Pendet dance and rasa Sayange folk song Lai, Yew Meng Yusten Karulus DS520-560.72 Southeast Asia GR1-950 Folklore This article analyses the role of nationalism and power politics (external/domestic) in shaping Indonesia’s relations with Malaysia during the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY). More specifically, it examines how nationalism, namely domestic nationalist pressure interacts with other external-domestic determinants in shaping Indonesia’s external behaviour and options towards Malaysia when managing the cultural heritage disputes, with particular attention given to Malaysia’s alleged claims of proprietorship over the Pendet dance and Rasa Sayange folk song. By adopting a neoclassical realist construct, this study seeks to address the pertinent questions of why, how, when and to what extent nationalism affects the perceptions and calculation of the SBY administration and Jakarta’s policy options during their altercations over the two cultural heritage debacles. Special attention is given to examining the interactions between domestic nationalist pressure and the related external-domestic determinants influencing Indonesia’s foreign policy towards Malaysia, to assess the extent to which nationalism constrained the SBY administration’s handling of the related episodes of the cultural heritage disputes. This study found the salience of nationalism and/or domestic nationalist pressure in constraining/affecting SBY administration’s management of the cultural heritage disputes affecting the Indonesia-Malaysia bilateral ties to be dependent on the Indonesian state-elites’ perceptions/calculation of the external-domestic conditions, namely their domestic political resolve vis-à-vis nationalist forces and Indonesia’s relative power position compared with Malaysia, which predisposed specific foreign policy-options during the given time period and context. Penerbit UMS 2019-06-29 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33710/1/The%20Indonesia-Malaysia%20cultural%20heritage%20disputes%2C%20A%20case%20study%20of%20the%20Pendet%20dance%20and%20rasa%20Sayange%20folk%20song.ABSTRACT.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33710/2/THE%20INDONESIA-MALAYSIA%20CULTURAL%20HERITAGE%20DISPUTES%2C%20A%20CASE%20STUDY%20OF%20THE%20PENDET%20DANCE%20AND%20RASA%20SAYANGE%20FOLK%20SONG.pdf Lai, Yew Meng and Yusten Karulus (2019) The Indonesia-Malaysia cultural heritage disputes: A case study of the Pendet dance and rasa Sayange folk song. MANU: Jurnal Pusat Penataran Ilmu dan Bahasa (PPIB), 29. pp. 137-172. ISSN 1511-1989 https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/MANU/article/view/1880 https://doi.org/10.51200/manu.v0i0.1880
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Yusten Karulus
The Indonesia-Malaysia cultural heritage disputes: A case study of the Pendet dance and rasa Sayange folk song
description This article analyses the role of nationalism and power politics (external/domestic) in shaping Indonesia’s relations with Malaysia during the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY). More specifically, it examines how nationalism, namely domestic nationalist pressure interacts with other external-domestic determinants in shaping Indonesia’s external behaviour and options towards Malaysia when managing the cultural heritage disputes, with particular attention given to Malaysia’s alleged claims of proprietorship over the Pendet dance and Rasa Sayange folk song. By adopting a neoclassical realist construct, this study seeks to address the pertinent questions of why, how, when and to what extent nationalism affects the perceptions and calculation of the SBY administration and Jakarta’s policy options during their altercations over the two cultural heritage debacles. Special attention is given to examining the interactions between domestic nationalist pressure and the related external-domestic determinants influencing Indonesia’s foreign policy towards Malaysia, to assess the extent to which nationalism constrained the SBY administration’s handling of the related episodes of the cultural heritage disputes. This study found the salience of nationalism and/or domestic nationalist pressure in constraining/affecting SBY administration’s management of the cultural heritage disputes affecting the Indonesia-Malaysia bilateral ties to be dependent on the Indonesian state-elites’ perceptions/calculation of the external-domestic conditions, namely their domestic political resolve vis-à-vis nationalist forces and Indonesia’s relative power position compared with Malaysia, which predisposed specific foreign policy-options during the given time period and context.
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Yusten Karulus
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title The Indonesia-Malaysia cultural heritage disputes: A case study of the Pendet dance and rasa Sayange folk song
title_short The Indonesia-Malaysia cultural heritage disputes: A case study of the Pendet dance and rasa Sayange folk song
title_full The Indonesia-Malaysia cultural heritage disputes: A case study of the Pendet dance and rasa Sayange folk song
title_fullStr The Indonesia-Malaysia cultural heritage disputes: A case study of the Pendet dance and rasa Sayange folk song
title_full_unstemmed The Indonesia-Malaysia cultural heritage disputes: A case study of the Pendet dance and rasa Sayange folk song
title_sort indonesia-malaysia cultural heritage disputes: a case study of the pendet dance and rasa sayange folk song
publisher Penerbit UMS
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url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33710/1/The%20Indonesia-Malaysia%20cultural%20heritage%20disputes%2C%20A%20case%20study%20of%20the%20Pendet%20dance%20and%20rasa%20Sayange%20folk%20song.ABSTRACT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33710/2/THE%20INDONESIA-MALAYSIA%20CULTURAL%20HERITAGE%20DISPUTES%2C%20A%20CASE%20STUDY%20OF%20THE%20PENDET%20DANCE%20AND%20RASA%20SAYANGE%20FOLK%20SONG.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33710/
https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/MANU/article/view/1880
https://doi.org/10.51200/manu.v0i0.1880
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