Collective Memory as Tool of Identity Assimilation: Case Study - Glodok, Jakarta

Kasyfiyullah

2018

Abstract

Identity issues become one of the political campaign tools especially to the ethnic issue of Chinese descendants that goes along with religious issue in the process of local leader election in Jakarta. In this paper, the study examines the process of identity assimilation that occurred in the Glodok area as an effort to anticipate the possible conflicts between local Muslims as the majority in the majority area of ethnic Chinese. The case study employs symbolic interactionist paradigm as the theoretical framework. The result is that the process of identity accommodation and assimilation occurring in Glodok is primarily based on collective memory and shared experience. The awareness of the resident that Glodok as familiar territory needs to be preserved, furthermore, the identity as a part of Glodok society becomes an alternative identity to overcome the diversity that occurred in Glodok. The awareness of this alternative identity affects the process of assimilation while forming shared experience.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kasyfiyullah. (2018). Collective Memory as Tool of Identity Assimilation: Case Study - Glodok, Jakarta.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1651-1658. DOI: 10.5220/0009933316511658

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Kasyfiyullah},
title={Collective Memory as Tool of Identity Assimilation: Case Study - Glodok, Jakarta},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1651-1658},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009933316511658},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Collective Memory as Tool of Identity Assimilation: Case Study - Glodok, Jakarta
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Kasyfiyullah.
PY - 2018
SP - 1651
EP - 1658
DO - 10.5220/0009933316511658