The Importance of Indonesia’s Nationalism Revitalization in the Globalization Era: A Historical Perspective

摘要

This article analyze on how nationalism which is product of nineteenth century? in? Europe can be revitalized in facing the challenge of globalization. In Indonesian context, this issue is very urgent to be discussed considering the fact that the process of globalization tends to be confronted with the spirit of nationalism. Sometime nationalism is viewed as an obsolete tradition that should be revitalized.? But there are still many people who believe that nationalism is still indispensable in the face of an increasing wave of globalization. However nationalism must be revitalized in order to be able to face the challenge of globalization. For this purpose, it is very interesting to strengthen the spirit of nationalism by revitalizing it for improving the nation competitiveness in facing the expansion of globalization. The questions are? i n what ways could nationalism be revitalized in order to improve the nation competitiveness to face the global competition ? In addition ,? the fundamental question to be asked is why does? Indonesian nationalism need to be revitalized ?? What is wrong with Indonesian nationalism ? I f Indonesian nationalism can be revitalized ,? how is it done ? Those are set of? questions that will be discussed in this paper.