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The student Population of a Southeast Asian University: an Indonesian Example

The student Population of a Southeast Asian University: an Indonesian Example The student Population of a Southeast Asian University: an Indonesian Example by JOSEPH FISCHER University of California (Berkeley), U.S.A. UNIVERSITIES in the newly independent countries of Asia and Africa are in many ways excellent units for sociological analysis. This is particularly true in countries like Indonesia, Ceylon, Ghana and Burma where one or two high-prestige universities virtually monopolize the recruitment of select youth into the highest levels of the educational system. From such a position of ad- vantage the university has assumed and still assumes great importance in terms of the recruitment of potential elites. Thus, the university in this context is crucially and comprehensively representative; that is, its students are drawn from all principal age, ethnic, economic, religious, sex and social groups and that these are the recruits who will become members of a technical, political or administrative elite. In Indonesia during the first dozen years of independence, two universities have dominated the educational scene: the University of Indonesia in Djakarta (which until 1959 also included the Technical Institute at Bandung) and Gadjah Mada University in Jogjakarta. In the past two years Airlangga University in Surabaya has also acquired considerable prestige, but it will not become a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1961 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0020-7152
eISSN
1745-2554
DOI
10.1163/156854261X00219
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Abstract

The student Population of a Southeast Asian University: an Indonesian Example by JOSEPH FISCHER University of California (Berkeley), U.S.A. UNIVERSITIES in the newly independent countries of Asia and Africa are in many ways excellent units for sociological analysis. This is particularly true in countries like Indonesia, Ceylon, Ghana and Burma where one or two high-prestige universities virtually monopolize the recruitment of select youth into the highest levels of the educational system. From such a position of ad- vantage the university has assumed and still assumes great importance in terms of the recruitment of potential elites. Thus, the university in this context is crucially and comprehensively representative; that is, its students are drawn from all principal age, ethnic, economic, religious, sex and social groups and that these are the recruits who will become members of a technical, political or administrative elite. In Indonesia during the first dozen years of independence, two universities have dominated the educational scene: the University of Indonesia in Djakarta (which until 1959 also included the Technical Institute at Bandung) and Gadjah Mada University in Jogjakarta. In the past two years Airlangga University in Surabaya has also acquired considerable prestige, but it will not become a

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1961

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