On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. outline the main historical forces that created and shaped independent Indonesia
2. explain the complex and varied role that Islam and other religions are playing in Indonesia's post-independence history
3. explore the role of Indonesia's indigenous cultures and politics and their interaction with foreign factors and forces in shaping Indonesia and Indonesia's place in the world
4. produce a coherent argument about the interaction of tradition and the challenge of modernity in generating social tensions and propelling political and social change
5. identify the main problems and issues confronting historians working on Indonesia and the different theoretical scholarly approaches to Indonesian history
6. apply historical research skills to another country and culture.

- Demise of The Dutch colonial regime
- Japanese occupation
- Indonesian revolution
- Sukarno presidency
- 1965 Coup and Mass Killings
- The Soeharto presidency
- Indonesian foreign policy
- Islam and other Religions in Indonesian politics and society
- Indonesian politics and economy
- post-Soeharto reform era