ETHICAL POLITIC AND EMERGENCE OF INTELLECTUAL CLASS
ABSTRACT: This study aimed to
examine and analyze the relationship between the ethical and the birth of the
educated classes in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in the colonial period.
The research is qualitative by using methods and approach to historical
analysis. The methods and approach to historical analysis combinedwith
interactive methods, interdisciplinary and inter-textual to gain an
understanding of the diverse impulses and interactions that contributed to the
birth of the educated classes in the Indian Dutch the colonial period. The
results showed that the policy of "ethical policy" in the liberal
period in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) have an impact on the formation of
the educated native Indonesia. Through this policy the bumiputera can find the
momentum to get an education in the West. The intellectuals who were born from
these intellectuals have paved the way for poles crucial as a public educator.
This means that they have to wake Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) from a long
hibernation during this time. The presence of intellectuals in public spaces
contribute to the growth of national consciousness, which in turn form the
collective consciousness as a nation-state.
Author: Anzar Abdullah
Journal Code: jpsejarahgg170001
