A history and ideology in the development of the writing of history textbooks for high school in Indonesia 1994-2013

Abstract

This article reveals the results of research on the contents of history subjects in history textbooks for High School that issued in two different government, the New Order Government and Reformation Government, which considered contains ideological messages. History textbooks sourced from the curriculum stated in government policies. That wasn’t surprising if the government changed, they will change the curriculum, and also change the content of textbooks, in this case includes the history text books. The change indicates that history textbooks cannot be separated from the interests of the government’s ideology. The aim of this research is to reveal the forms of ideology that present in the content of history text books. The method used is critical discourse analysis to know the ideological discourse in history textbooks from two different government periods. The history textbooks that examined based on the 1994 and the 2013 Curriculum to indicate two curriculums results from two reigns. Based on the results of this research, it can be compared with the ideology of writing content of history textbooks in the New Order and Reformation period, includes ommunism and Pancasila, deceit democracy and freedom for democracy, militarism and anti-militarism, neoliberalism and anti-communism, liberalism and anti-liberalism. However, there is still a single narrative of the nation in the New Order that could not be replaced by the Reformation era.