Militarism in Indonesian and Turkish History Textbooks

Abstract

The present article discusses militaristic narrative found in Indonesian and Turkish history textbooks. The analysed textbooks are history textbooks that is currently in use for twelfth grades. The aim of this analyses is to clarify our understanding of the nature of textbooks and history teaching in Indonesia and Turkey. This study will be focusing on militaristic narratives in history textbook in each country on the levels of text and discourse. Two textbooks are compared with corpus-based Discourse Analysis Method. The aim is to find if discourses pertaining to militarism dominate each country’s textbook. The results, however, find out that militaristic discourse does dominate Turkish textbook, but not Indonesian one.