{"id":61270,"date":"2025-08-12T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61270\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:10:07","slug":"indonesias-textbook-rewrite-delayed-to-november-as-critics-double-down-on-call-to-scrap-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61270\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia\u2019s textbook rewrite delayed to November as critics double down on call to scrap project"},"content":{"rendered":"

JAKARTA: The Indonesian government has postponed the launch of its controversial national history book project<\/a> by about three months, though critics still call for it to be scrapped entirely.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Initially slated to be launched this Sunday (Aug 17) – which is Indonesia\u2019s Independence Day – the 10-volume book is now slated to be released on Nov 10 to coincide with the country\u2019s National Heroes Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The day commemorates the Battle of Surabaya – a fierce conflict in 1945 between Indonesian nationalists and British forces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The history rewrite project has been widely criticised by historians and human rights activists for \u201csanitising the nation\u2019s past\u201d and omitting major human rights violations<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to local media, the books are meant to become the country\u2019s historical reference for students across all education levels there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur plan is to still launch the book this year \u2026 because this is part of a series of events to celebrate 80 years of Indonesian independence,\u201d Culture Minister Fadli Zon was quoted as saying by Jakarta Post on Aug 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fadli, who is part of President Prabowo Subianto\u2019s Gerindra Party, said that the postponement would give more time to \u201cperfect the draft\u201d, adding that it may require two or three more rounds of public discussions before publication.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Fadli, these public discussions and forums have been conducted openly at four local universities: University of Indonesia in Jakarta, the State University of Padang in West Sumatra, Lambung Mangkurat University in Kalimantan and the State University of Makassar in Sulawesi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue (these public discussions) with other history enthusiasts and historians,\u201d he said, as reported by Tempo.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

These discussions at universities have been ongoing since late July, according to Jakarta Post, which the minister said has generated \u201cvarious interesting suggestions\u201d that would enrich the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAKARTA: The Indonesian government has postponed the launch of its controversial national history book project by about three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,1293,937,2183,5942,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-61270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-history","11":"tag-human-rights","12":"tag-indonesia","13":"tag-prabowo-subianto","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}