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Studies on art education and culture are a continuing concern within academicians and politicians. Although extensive research has been carried out on the fields, few studies exist, which concern about the use of art education for cultural hegemony. This study concerns about Acehnese culture and identity. During the time of colonisation, imperialist scholar; Snouck Hurgronje had used cultural resources as the instrument to instil false cultural identity for the interest to take control over Aceh. Stepping on the Dutch’s colonialising policies, the central government of Indonesia has, as argued, used art curriculum as a hegemonic media for similar interests. This article discusses the case of art education in Acehnese by analysing the content of the text books recommended by the central government. This work is to demonstrate the representation of Acehnese cultural identity in the “Art and Culture” curriculum of schools in Aceh. I employ Freire, Hall, Apple, and Giroux thoughts to formulate the framework of this article. The aim of this paper is to understand the mechanism of the art curriculum used to nationalise local people and to uncover the scheme of cultural hegemony in Acehnese schools, Indonesia. This work significantly contributes toward understanding the relation between cultural hegemony and education. Abstrak: Penelitian tentang pendidikan seni dan budaya menjadi perhatian dari kalangan akademisi dan politisi terus menerus. Meskipun penelitian terkait telah banyak dilakukan di lapangan, studi yang menyangkut penggunaan pendidikan seni untuk hegemoni budaya masih terbatas. Penelitian ini membahas tentang budaya dan identitas Aceh. Selama masa penjajahan, sarjana imperialis; Snouck Hurgronje menggunakan sumber daya budaya sebagai instrumen untuk menanamkan identitas budaya yang salah demi kepentingan untuk mengendalikan Aceh. Dalam kebijakan kolonialisasi Belanda, pemerintah pusat Indonesia juga menggunakan kurikulum seni sebagai media hegemonik untuk kepentingan yang sama. Artikel ini membahas tentang pendidikan seni di Aceh dengan menganalisis isi buku teks yang direkomendasikan oleh pemerintah pusat. Penelitian ini adalah bertujuan untuk menunjukkan representasi identitas budaya Aceh dalam kurikulum “Seni dan Budaya” di sekolah-sekolah di Aceh. Saya menggunakan pemikiran Freire, Hall, Apple, dan Giroux untuk merumuskan kerangka artikel ini. Tujuan artikel ini adalah untuk memahami mekanisme kurikulum seni yang digunakan untuk menasionalisasi masyarakat lokal dan mengungkap skema hegemoni budaya pada sekolah-sekolah di Aceh, Indonesia. Tulisan ini memberikan kontribusi yang signifikan terhadap pemahaman hubungan antara hegemoni budaya dan pendidikan. Kata kunci: Hukum pendidikan, Hegemoni, Pendidikan Seni, Identitas Aceh

This study offers insights into the transformation of social media platforms as an alternative to the digital public sphere for Muslim society in Aceh. The communicative action theory by Habermas is used as approach to respond to this challenge. Descriptive quantitative analyses were used to expose religious discourse about Islam amongst young Muslims in Aceh. The results show that WhatsApp has proven to be the most popular among social media platforms. WhatsApp has functioned as a new public sphere for Muslim society in Aceh and has evolved into an essential part of mediated Islamic discourse in the digital era. In this regard, WhatsApp has created a universal public sphere, available to Muslim society as dialogic communication in Aceh. This research concludes that the Muslims in Aceh are not merely users of WhatsApp. They can also be digital preachers who can build individual narratives as a part of the religious struggle to increase their piety.Kajian ini dilakukan untuk memberikan pemahaman mendalam tentang bagaimana transformasi platform media sosial sebagai alternatif ruang publik digital pada masyarakat Muslim di Aceh. Teori tindakan komunikatif Habermas digunakan sebagai pendekatan untuk menjawab tantangan ini. Analisis deskriptif kuantitatif digunakan untuk mengekspos diskursus keagamaan Islam di kalangan generasi muda Muslim di Aceh melalui lanskap media sosial baru yang lebih kontemporer. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa WhatsApp telah terbukti menjadi media yang paling populer di antara banyak platform media sosial. WhatsApp telah memberikan manfaat sebagai alternatif ruang publik baru bagi masyarakat Muslim di Aceh dan telah berkembang menjadi bagian penting dalam perkembangan diskursus keislaman di era digital. Dalam hal ini, WhatsApp telah menciptakan ruang publik yang universal, tersedia bagi Muslim sebagai satu bentuk komunikasi dialogis di Aceh. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa umat Islam di Aceh bukan hanya pengguna WhatsApp saja. Namun, mereka juga menjadi penceramah digital yang dapat membangun narasi individu yang dipilih sebagai bagian dari perjuangan dakwah untuk meningkatkan ketakwaannya

The people of Acheh society so immersed in the customary beliefs, traditions and cultures of Hinduism, and belief in large wooden staples such as, banyan trees and ketapang trees, as well as trustworthy objects possessing supernatural powers of animism and dynamism. They are also cling to the teachings of religion that have been abandoned by the former, even though those who bring the teachings are not derived from Islam, indirectly the belief, can form personal in everyday social that is not very memorable. In some parts of the Acheh community who live in rural areas up to now, practice the customs and culture of the tahayul rather than Hindu relics such as, the practice of heresy, superstition and khurafat and has become a practice in its daily that is difficult to be left.

Considerable studies have been undertaken on Islamic sects and radicalisation. There is, however, little work on textual analysis of traditionalist book, which is regarded as traditionalist collective identity. This article is a critical analysis of the term Ahl al-Sunnah Wa al-Jama`ah, with special reference to Sirajuddin Abbas’ book. ; I`tiqad Ahl al-Sunnah Wa al-Jama`ah. His articulation of the concept Ahl al-Sunnah Wa al-Jama`ah plays great role in radicalising traditionalist ideology and providing traditionalist Islamic activists the justification to go against Wahhabism. His interpretation of the concept is, however, strongly rejected by Wahhabis, because of imposing hatred and intolerance against Wahhabism. By using Fairlough’s critical analysis, I studied critically the content of Abbas’s book. Some concepts related to the articulation of Ahl al-Sunnah Wa al-Jama`ah are chosen and analysed to find the role of the book in underlying traditionalist ideology. Then, Abbas’ interpretations of the selected concepts are verified through the method of interview to unearth ideological articulation of Abbas’. DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v23i1.2405

This article begins with explaining the present problems of Acehnese cultural identity, then articulating how the art is usefully employed to solve those difficulties. Relying on post-colonial theories, I formulate the framework that Acehnese art has significant position to handling current cultural problem of Acehnese society. This work offers a cultural resolution of Acehnese present conflict between traditionalist and modernist Muslims, which are represented by Dayah and Muhammadiyah community in Aceh. It is commonly known that Islam is the pride of the Acehnese. To date, there is, however, no certainty about the nature of Islam in Aceh, as heated debate still exists between traditionalist and modernist Muslims upon the nature of Sharia application in the place. This dispute has generated different extreme perspectives upon seeing themselves in the way to treat their cultural identity. Here we establishes that Acehnese art plays great role in bringing togetherness to different groups of Acehnese society, which results in resolving horizontal conflict of Acehnese society. It shows that Acehnese art accommodates to all of different ness of Acehnese communities and, therefore, raises Acehnese collective consciousness.