Abstract
Strikes by high school students were a common feature of Old Order Indonesia. These aksi, whether in response to problems within the school or to national political issues, helped define high school students (siswa) as part of the amorphous yet politically charged category youth (pemuda). But under the New Order youth has been all but expunged from the Indonesian vocabulary.1 In its place, school students are more likely to be called pelajar and teenagers (remaja) than youth, more likely to be blamed for naughtiness than praised for social concern, let alone activism.2 Yet, over the past two years, while politicians debated the virtues of openness (keterbukaan), while university students protested the state-sponsored lottery (SDSB) and workers continued to strike for higher wages, junior and senior high school students have offered their own challenge: they too have gone on strike.3
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