UNDER A TROPICAL SKY: A HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY IN INDONESIA

Creator: Bambang Hidayat


Publisher: JBPTITBPP/ITB Central Library
Institut Teknologi Bandung
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Language: Bahasa Indonesia

Description:

This paper reviews the birth of astronomy as a branch of natural science in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on Java, Indonesia, through the three and
a half year period of the Japanese occupation during World War II. In the 1950s
astronomy as a science received new impetus by incorporating the science into the
higher education system in Indonesia. The newly-founded Faculty of Mathematics and
Natural Sciences in Bandung was honourably charged to carry out the modem science
education, including astronomy. The introduction of the Anglo-Saxon system of
higher education in the late 195Os, which replaced the continental system of
education, is briefly sketched to serve as background information for astronomy
education in the later years in Indonesia.


Description (English):

Same as native

Last Modified: 2000-10-09, by dikdik@www.lib.itb.ac.id 
Sources:       Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (1):45-58 (2000)
Copyright:     Copyright © 2000 ITB Central Library., Jl. Ganesha 10 Bandung, 40132,
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