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background. After that, the results of the analysis are synthesized with the theories to accomplish the objectives of the study. Lastly, this study draws the conclusions
based on the title, problem formulations, and the result of the analysis.
CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
This chapter contains analysis in finding the answers of the research questions. The first part is an analysis of the Indonesian politics in 1960s as seen
in Ahmad Tohari’s The Dancer. The second part seeks to explain why the civil war also destroys Paruk. Meanwhile, the last part is the analysis of how the civil
war changes the Indonesian politics.
A. Indonesian Politics in the 1960s
This part attempts to elaborate the Indonesian political situation in 1960s by analyzing the obtained hints in the novel which refer to the Malaysia
confrontation and the existence of Indonesian Communist Party the PKI.
1. Rasus Goes to West Kalimantan
This part is going to outline the Indonesian politics in 1960s by starting the analysis on a hint found in the novel telling that Rasus and his battalion are
assigned to West Kalimantan p. 380. The next hint is when “he kills a man from
a group of rebels which enter a trap in an ambush” p. 434. Those hints indicate that there is a military operation involving Rasus’ battalion against “a group of
rebels” in West Kalimantan. As Davidson 2009 accounts that the New Order began to concern the existence of rebels in West Kalimantan. As the elimination
of the PKI in Java and Bali took place, Suharto also used the military forces to break up the “rebels” in 1967 p. 63. It can be seen that the “rebels” emerge as
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the New Order starts to rule Indonesia. Further, Eilenberg 1975 adds that after the New Order under the anti-Communist Suharto took power, Indonesian army
collaborated with Malaysia annihilating the rebels which were labeled as Communist insurgents along the border in West Kalimantan. The “rebels” were
initially formed by Sukarno to confront the establishment of the Malaysian Federation p. 125.
The next analysis demands an explanation why the Old Order must confronts the federation. Rotter 2010 explicates that Sukarno considered the
Malaysian Federation as “a British neocolonial creation” p. 272. Rowthorn and Cohen 2008 map, this federation united “Malaya, Singapore, Sabah, and
Sarawak” which are geopolitically adjacent to Indonesia especially in Kalimantan p. 28. Kosut 1967 states the establishment of Malaysian Federation was
interpreted by Sukarno as the extension of imperialism in Southeast Asia p. 84. From this situation, it starts to discover such tension between the Old Order and
the United Kingdom which represents the Western bloc’s concern in Southeast Asia during the Cold War.
Firstly, Indonesian revolution is needed to be defined as an essence of the confrontation background; why the Old Order firmly commands the
confrontation. According to The New International Webster’s Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language Deluxe Encyclopedic Edition 1996,
revolution is defined as an “extensive or drastic change in a condition, method, idea, etc” p. 1079. Skocpol emphasizes that this extensive or drastic change must
