Qualitative Reserach of Ethnic Diversity in Indonesia and Diverse Perspectives of People.docx

1、Qualitative Reserach of Ethnic Diversity in Indonesia and Diverse Perspectives of PeopleQualitative Research of Ethnic Diversity in Indonesia and DiversePerspectives of PeopleMay 2011Lee, Ju-won (BBA, SolBridge International School of Business)I. Introduction Overtime, the world was prone to amalgam

2、ate people over the world due to globalization. Even with coexisting flow of factions holding either fundamentalism on ethnicity or diversity of cultures, diversity desiring was apt to be more of recommended ideology rather than the former approach to culture. Diversity pursuit is not only confined

3、certain sectors of society but society as whole like school, politics, local community, and many others. As of an example, SolBridge International School of Business is a newly established school in Daejeon, Korea, in pursuit of offering international business. Not only they offer business related c

4、ourses, but provides multicultural environment to have learners adapt to novel atmosphere. Hitherto, nevertheless, even with the mainstream flow tilting towards the diversity, there still exist regions bearing extremely sensitive ethnic-related social issues. France was recriminated of discriminatin

5、g Muslim people wearing hijab in public place. United States of American is a symbolic nation with intercultural matter as it of being diverse country itself. Korean society suffered similar controversy in regards to having negative stereotype to South-East Asians, while showing radical submissivene

6、ss to Westerners regardless of their potential defects. Though the status quo is in the continuum of alteration, patience is highly expected during the process of changes. One of several serious issues in regards to intercultural environment is difficulties that the Sino-Indonesian people had to gon

7、e through which is presumably in progress. While such issues are not provoked as much to international public, it is crucial to note the fact that internal controversies are not settled and may cause further conflicts among people. Sino-Indonesian is a substituting term of Chinese-Indonesian people.

8、 Chinese-Indonesian generally bears full Chinese ancestry usually not mixed with previous natives of Indonesia. Their status in the country, mostly in economic realm, caused thorough aversion to each other. The unstable reciprocal emotion between people with and without Chinese background seems to b

9、e maintaining. This was in the scope of interest in the beginning of 2011 when the author encountered a group of Indonesian exchange students who were to attend the school that the author attends. From the appearance to preference of music, it seemed to have digressed from previous prediction. Autho

10、r had set up ample amount of people among that group in human network and experienced socialization over long time. Despite continuous interaction with them, the author realized deficiency in scholastic realm that profound knowledge was not dealt too much. Off from general interaction, the author re

11、cognized the need of studying sensitive issue to meet the demand of in-depth research for intercultural communication course offered in SolBridge International School of Business. This writer therefore would like put a light on the matter and discuss further according to the research conducted. This

12、 report is a qualitative research regarding individualistic and structural intricacy the Sino-Indonesian, the Chinese-Indonesian have been going through up to now. Qualitative research was adopted as a method of study to allow readers to have in-depth knowledge regarding the minority issue. Open-end

13、 interview was conducted in a liberating environment to allow interviewees to freely engage in interview. Matter of subjectivity however is acknowledged due to the research method. Personal research on documents of Indonesia was operated as well which also leaves room for understanding the data in o

14、nes perspective. Representativeness of the sample to population 1) may also bear deficits since sampling process is missing. It will be goal of the author to have readers be critical about the contents of it and have thorough understanding of the culture with along forming their own opinion. This re

15、port will initiate presentation of status quo in Indonesia by offering basic information of politics, religion, history, and some other contents that are considered to be important to offer. It will then offer basic information on the culture according to The Iceberg of Culture 2). The report will d

16、iscuss mainly two parts. One is culture general dealing with social minority issue in Indonesia. The other part will be discussing business realm in the continuum of culture due to the author attending business school, requiring relative understanding of culture and business. Predominant content how

17、ever will be dealing with the earlier sphere. Then the paper will be dealing with interview to Indonesians who are currently attending SolBridge International School of Business to have profound understanding 3). Observe result from interaction with people from the culture will also be dealt. Conten

18、ts will be presented in the relation with the theories that were dealt in the text book used in Intercultural Communication course offered in SolBridge International School of Business. Generosity is to be asked regarding digression of format due to the quantity of contents to my dear instructor. Fo

19、rmat of paper may bear some deficits from strict academic standard for the writer was not educated in setting firm formation. It was inevitable for the author to conduct research based on Sino-Indonesian. One of the reasons was having heavily Sino-Indonesian population attending in the school that t

20、he author attends. The other reason is that dealing with the issues of social minorities could never be implemented without conversing with those people. Personal comments and perspectives were flourishing from those people regarding the intricacy that they themselves and their forefathers had to ex

21、perience. In the continuum of status of research conducting, it is inevitable for the author to highly appreciate the willingness of the students to openly allow me to write on the sensitive matter that is related to their identity. It could have been truly understandable even if some of them were r

22、eluctant about saying this issue. Due to the generosity of examinees, it was possible to take a look into matters in their country and learn more deeply. I also would like to appreciate for the opportunity to Dr. Dawn Davies (Professor, SolBridge International School of Business). Such deficiencies

23、as emphasized earlier can be detected throughout the report. If for any chance there bears deficiency or lack, notwithstanding the supports that the author received, the problem will stem at the lack of ability to perform greatly in writing research paper. I now would like to initiate presenting int

24、ercultural contents starting with basic information provision as emphasized earlier. It will be great honour for the author to be able to offer valid data to those who are interested in learning intercultural issues all over the world. 1) Population in statistics, also known as universe is the entir

25、e finite o infinite aggregate of individuals or items from which samples are drawn according to 2) Davies. Dawn.(2011). An Introduction to Intercultural Communication SolBridge International School of Business(Spring, 2011)3) By the time the report was written, the author was attending in the first

26、semester of 2011 spring semester. II. Background Knowledge of IndonesiaPoliticsPolitics of Indonesia is a very riveting existence to study on due to how it shares common facet with such country like Korea. Korea had a former soldier as a president back in 60s and 70s. While he was credited and suppo

27、rted by some people for his achievement in economy, some other argue that supporting and claim how having authoritarian and militant government can severely harm the living condition of individuals. Indonesia also had gone through military figure ruling the country. Disregarding the evaluation on th

28、e figures at that time and to describe sheer facts, Suharto, the second president of Indonesia raised coup dEtat against the very first president, Sukarno. It is also interesting to see how the both Suharto and Park Jung-Hee, the Korean army figure emphasized above, shares in common of having suppor

29、ts from Japan and putting propaganda to the public saying the country as a whole averse to communism. Dictatorship however fell. Suharto was reprimanded for his corrupt actions and caused people to be fury of it. Indonesian Revolution of 1998 caused him to go down from presidency. Bacharuddin Jusuf

30、Habibie took over the government but ended up finishing his presidency early with losing public support from his action towards East Timor. Abdurrahman Wahid followed after Babibie. Wahid is the first president to be elected by a referendum. 5th president was woman who is daughter of the very first

31、president. Currently president named Yudhoyono is in charge. From the interviews conducted, having been to have settled more of democratic procedure when electing president, though many problems may not have solved, so far it seems more of stabilized situation.ReligionReligion in Indonesia is a cruc

32、ial part to deal with. Environment fostered people to choose or be assigned of religion that most of them are not atheist. Predominant force of religion is Muslim. In fact, Indonesia holds the highest percentage of people believing in Islam in the world. 88% of people believe in the religion with so

33、me sectarians like Sunih and Sias. For the Muslims it seems that religion tends to succeed through generations. A province called Yogyakarta constitutes with predominant Muslim residents with Sultan ruling the region which implies how this country bears its distinctive characteristics as a Muslim nation. So many other religions