This course explores the interplay between regional, national and global "identities" (i.e. how people perceive themselves and their group affiliations) in Indonesia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In particular it looks at the emergence of a dominant, yet in many ways minority national culture and polity in Indonesia in the 20th Century, the way this culture/polity is linked to European colonialism, its antecedents within Indonesian culture and politics, its appropriation of regional cultures, its creation of "tradition", its expression in literature and the arts, its complex relationship with Islam and pan-Islamic identities, and the influences of modern technologies on identities, in particular radio, television, and the internet. This course may be taken as part of a major or minor in History or Politics with the permission of the Head of School, or as a part of the minor in Indonesian-Malay Studies.