Kamanto Sunarto

In April 2015 a group of Indonesian sociologists formed the Indonesian editorial team. Dialog Global Volume 5 Issue 3, the first Indonesian language edition of Global Dialogue (GD) and its 16th language at the time, was published in September 2015. The team comprises nine sociologists attached to five different universities in four cities: University of Indonesia at Depok, Gadjah Mada University and Sanata Dharma University at Yogyakarta...

Kamanto Sunarto is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia. He earned his PhD in education from the University of Chicago in 1980. His current research interests are higher education and the history of sociology. He is a member of ISA Research Committees on Sociology of Education (RC04) and History of Sociology (RC08)...

After the Indonesian reform movement ended 32 years of authoritarian military rule in 1998, the state introduced hotly contested educational reforms. Since 2003 the establishment of the Constitutional Court opened a new venue where society could challenge laws it regards as unconstitutional, and over the past decade, educational providers, students and civil society groups have brought suits over the new education laws. In 1999 the government issued...