Structural Transformation of Foreign Interests of Indonesia’s Economy at VOC Era and New Order Era

Abstract

Historical studies, especially the political economic phenomenon in Indonesian, has never been done in the perspective of Levi Strauss’s structuralism. The purpose of this research is to reveal the  structural transformation  of foreign interest cooptation in Indonesia’s economy during the VOC and New Order Eras through Levi-Strauss’s perspective of structuralism. The structural method of this research used archival documentation, historical documents and literature study. The results showed that there has been a structural transformation   on the surface structure of foreign interest cooptation in Indonesia's economy for the past two periods. The deep structure of foreign interest cooptation in Indonesia’s economy occurred on four themes namely perpetrator/actor, areas of life in economic sector, cooptation mechanisms and implications.

Keywords: Transformation, surface structure, deep structure,  foreign cooptation, Indonesia’s economy