SEJARAH GLOBAL SEBAGAI PENDEKATAN BARU DALAM SEJARAH INDONESIA

Abstract

History science should not be separated from the development of world philosophical thought. As a science, history is still survived and used by many scholars until now. It proves that history is still relevant to solve problems in our life. Since the nineteenth century, history science is excessively influenced by the Eurocentric view that it had been used to legitimate the power of European imperialism and colonialism in many colonies, like Netherlands Indies, British Malaya, India, and so forth. Many scholars from social humanities fields, such as Syed Hussein Alatas and Edward Said, have criticized the Eurocentric view in social humanities scholarships. Lately, historians have been using a new approach that emphasizes global history. Global history writings discuss problems on a larger scale to reduce the Eurocentric view in history science. It has been written and discussed by scholars in Europe, North America, and East Asia for several times ago. However, the global history approach has not been used yet as an approach by academic or public historians in Indonesia. This article explores global history as an approach to historical methodology. In this article, the author uses historical literature that has been using global history as an approach. The author argues that the global history approach should be explored further to reduce the Eurocentric view in historical writings.