SEJARAH INDONESIA DALAM KONTEKS POLITIK GLOBAL DAN REGIONAL

Indonesian history could be interesting to elaborate further when it is analyzed regionally and globally. An attempt to be used is a comparative study. There are various aspects in looking at comparative history. Time, place, and topic should be equal. Therefore, historians should look at the historical, cultural, geographical, and geo-political aspects in comparing the development of Indonesian and Malaysian foreign policies. In addition, the different colonial experience should be realized. This will be affected on the various character building and perception on the each national security. Southeast Asia becomes an arena to be competed between Western and Eastern ideologies. In the wave of the cold war, Indonesia and Malaysia have different interest and different position. This article tries to give a model how to write history based on global perspective