Paradoxical outcomes of national schooling in the borderland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia: the case of the Iban.

From: Borneo Research Bulletin | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Eilenberg, Michael | Copyright information

Introduction

Marginal populations like the borderland Iban often do not primarily identify with the state in which they live. Identities derived from regional and local associations are usually more significant in people's daily experience. Communities living on either side of a national border, for instance, may have more in common with each other than they do with their own distant state capitals or other regions of their country. Such absence of a sense of strong nati...

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