This presentation slides were used to explain and to critically analyze the educational goals during the Dutch colonization in Indonesia in the beginning 20th century using a chosen artifact (a short video).

1. Education During the Colonial Experience
in Indonesia
By: Iwan Syahril
Michigan State University, Fall 2011

2. The purpose
❖ Toexplain and critically analyze
educational goals during the Dutch
colonization in East Indies/Indonesia
(1920-1930) using a video artifact
“Onderwijs in Indie”.

3. The Video
❖ Title: Onderwijs in Indie (Education in the Indies)
❖ Length: 3 minutes 41 seconds.
❖ About: Mixed scenes of different schools in Dutch East
Indies (Indonesia) in late 1920s.
• Dutch Chinese School, National/Village School, Dutch
Indonesian School, Dutch Chinese/Indonesian Normal
School, Vocational School, European High School.
❖ Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fweO3Sfsj1M
❖ Original Source: Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam.

4. ORIENTAL
EDUCATION

6. OCCIDENTAL
EDUCATION

10. In summary...

11. The Social Economic Power
The Colonial Power
The Masses,
The Majority

12. Labaree’s
Educational Goals
❖ Democratic Equality - Education for the masses,
through Ethical Policy, 1907. Separate but Equal?
❖ Social Efficiency - Education to fill the
administrative positions, & keeping up with demand
of growing industries.
❖ Social Mobility - Equal access to all provided
language & money; credentials?

13. Separate but Equal? or
Separate and Unequal?
❖ By 1930, Dutch East Indies’
national primary enrollment only
reached 12.2% (Benavot & Riddle,
1988), 87.7% ???
❖ Different support: financing,
administration, ethnicity. Video
shows the quality of furniture and
school supplies.

14. Language Policy
to Maintain
Power/Credentials
❖ Similar cases in French West
Africa, French Indochina
(Kelly, 1984); in Taiwan during
Japanese occupation
(Tsurumi, 1984).

15. Conclusion:
Educational Goals are problematic!
❖ (Low/High Quality) Education for All?
❖ Language and Power.