Elections and Politics in IndonesiaAn analysis of the 1999 Indonesian general election and subsequent presidential election in the context of Indonesian elections and politics. The book highlights major characteristics of Indonesian society and culture which affect electoral behaviour, namely ethnicity, regionalism and religion. |
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Page 15 - ... differentiating and visible symbols of Batakness. Becoming Sundanese by virtue of residence in a Sundanese city is a longer term and more subtle process, in which unconscious identification with the dominant power group plays a significant role. To put it in another and somewhat oversimplified way, the child inherits his ethnic identity from his Batak father but most of his culture patterns from his Sundanese mother as well as from his Sundanese peer group.
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