"As the only state university that bears the name of the country, the Universitas
Indonesia (UI) has played an important role in the history of the Indonesian
nationalist movement for over half a century. Now located at two sites, one in
the center of the city and the other on the outskirts, the history of this
leading state university-its architecture and location, as well as its campus
life and student movement-reflects the clashes of various forces and competing
ideologies. This study looks at the relationship between public space and
nationalism in Universitas Indonesia in an interdisciplinary perspective. It
relates architecture and urban history with the operations of power and memory
in a campus, which is seen both as an arena of struggle as well as containment.
In that sense the campus is a reflection of public space in a broader sense.
This paper raises a question about the kind of civic space emerging from the
tension between the physical structure and environment of the campuses and the
inner space of campus politics and students movement."
"This article offers an analysis of conservative critiques of education with
particular attention given to how policy problems are framed to build public
consensus. It investigates how conservatives claim political legitimacy and
describe education and social problems in ways that promote a conservative
agenda. Using a case study of the Australian Howard Government's education
policy, the article draws on Lakoff's work and particularly his 'moral
accounting schemes' to identify the politics that are not always apparent in
debates, but which nonetheless play a powerful role in popular and policy
understandings of schools and universities and which help shape policy solutions
to the problems those educational institutions are said to face."