HARMONY BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY IMAGE IN THE PAVILION OF INDONESIA AT WORLD EXPO IN THE PERIOD OF THE NEW ORDER
Keywords:
World Expo, New Order, Exhibition, Image, HarmonyAbstract
Under the New Order regime the participation of Indonesia in World Expo started in the 1970 World Expo in Osaka, Japan. This World Expo event, for the New Order regime, served both as a place and media, which was considered proper and suitable to showcase the positive image of Indonesia in front of the international audience. This research attempts to analyse how the New Order’s positive image was presented at the pavilion of Indonesia in the World Expo. This is a cultural study that uses qualitative approach and the analysis is done using data taken from various documents such as photographs, written reports from the organizing committee, news in the newspapers, magazines and Internet. This descriptive analysis reveals that the New Order regime always used the same method in selecting and presenting the pavilions, which is showed in the connection between the nation’s greatness and its cultural tradition from the past with its preserved today’s tradition, and with the achievements of the national development. The image that the New Order regime wanted to introduce was the harmony between Indonesia’s traditional and modern aspects, harmony between tradition and modernity.
Downloads
References
Online. Available at bappenas.go.id
Abdulgani-Knapp, Retnowati (2007). Soeharto, The Life and Legacy of Indonesia’s Second President. Jakarta: Kata Hasta Pustaka. P.64
K.H., Ramadhan, dan G, Dwipayana (1989). Soeharto; Pikiran, Ucapan dan Tindakan Saya. Jakarta: Citra Lamtoro Gung Persada P. 280, 316, 323
Susanto, Budi (2003). Identitas dan Postkolonialitas Indonesia.Yogyakarta: Kanisius P
Picard, Michel. (2006). Bali: Pariwisata Budaya dan Budaya Pariwisata (translation). Jakarta: KPG. P. 77-78
Anjungan Indonesia (1986). Expo 1986 Vancover, Kanada, Jakarta: Kementrian Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Nasional (Bappenas) Republik Indonesia. P. 2
Anjungan Indonesia (1988). World Expo 1988 Brisbanne, Australia, Jakarta: Kementrian Koordinator Bidang Pariwisata dan Telekomunikasi Republik Indonesia. P. 28, 120
Anjungan Indonesia (1992). World Expo 1992 Sevilla, Spanyol, Jakarta: Republik Indonesia. P. 13
Online. Available at expo93.co
McLeod, Hugh (2000). Secularisation in Western Europe, 1884 -1914. NY: St Martin Press. p.69
Hobsbawm, Eric and Ranger, Terence (2003). The Invention of Tradition. UK: University Press, Cambridge p.1-14
