Perspektif historis kesadaran kebangsaan dan kemerdekaan Indonesia berdimensi kebudayaan

Abstract

The idea of Indonesia as an independent nation began to be threatened, when groups of political elites andcertain communities began to imagine not to be part of the big house of Indonesia. This situation made all parties aware of how importance historiography and national collective memory in shaping, understanding and maintaining national consciousness and Indonesian independence as an integrative and holistic way of thinking. In contrast to the studies that have existed so far which emphasize the political dimension, this paper places national awareness and Indonesian independence in the sphere of its cultural dimension. When national consciousness and independence is understood in the cultural dimension, the Proclamation of 17 August 1945 together with Pancasila could no longer be referred to as mere political products, but as a national culture.