Indonesian Values

Indonesia is an archipelagoarchipelago extending 5,120 kilometres (3,181 mi) from east to west and 1,760 kilometres (1,094 mi) from norh to south. Indonesia's total land area is 1,919,317 square kilometres (741,052 sq mi). comprising approximately 17,508 islands.17,508 islands It encompasses 34 provinces34 provinces Population: million (2012) World Bank Population246.9 million (2012) World Bank Indonesia has about 300 ethnic groups, influenced by Indian, Arabic, Chinese, and European sources. More than 700 living languages are spoken in IndonesialanguagesIndonesia six officially religions (88% Islam, 6.96% Protestant, 2.91% Catholic, 1.69% Hindu, 0.72% Buddhist, 0.05% Khong Hu Chu)ProtestantCatholicHinduBuddhistKhong Hu Chu

What are characteristics of values? What are Indonesian values?

characteristics of values Values changing as result of globalization and technology Values change continuouslyChange of values will affect human behavior

Indonesian values Mutual Assistances The important of cooperation Mutual assistance is foundation of social life Everyone love to help each other Religiosity Religion is a guidence of people behavior Every one has the religion Religion as a faith that God is exist Religion is foundation of people behavior Hospitality Do you greet people first? Do you easy to get closer with other? Do you usually start conversation with others? Harmony Living in Harmony Harmony prevent dispute Harmony prevent separation

Definition of values The concept of value is one important variable to human life because values influence all aspects of human life (Rokeach, 1973 cited by Wang et al., 1994). Values provide guidelines to live in a society (Schwartz, 1999) and values provide answer to basic and universal questions such as ‘what do I do?’(Zhou et al., 2011). Hofstede (1994) pointed out that values are among the first children learned. Since the age of 10, most children have their basic value systems. Values are acquired through the family, neighborhood, experience, and lifestyle (Karahanna et al., 2005).

Grunert and Scherhorn (1990, cited by Wang et al., 1994) Values were described as: 1) concepts or beliefs, 2) desirable behaviors, 3) end states that go beyond specific situations, 4) guide the selection or evaluation of events and behaviors, and 5) ordered by a certain hierarchical importance.

Do you think that Indonesian values has been changed?

I try to reach my own purpose although contrarily with the regulation I put my interest above the interest of others My opinions is always right Everyone should follow my opinion Individualism I Defend my own religion I fight for my own religion Religious fanaticism Democracy help Indonesia a better nations Every citizen has their own right to choose their lives Every one has the right to speak, to have religion, to freedom Democracy

Culture may be defined as ‘the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another’ (Hofstede, 1980, p. 25). Each human group shares its own societal norms, consisting of common characteristics, such as a value system which is adopted by the majority of constituents.

‘Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional (i.e., historically derived and selected) ideas and especially their attached values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the other as conditioning elements of further action’’ (Kroeber - Kluckhohn, 1952, p. 181).