Abstract
Contemporary social conflicts in Indonesia are due to the wide differences in acculturation of indigenous groups with respect to Western civilization and to the economic self-interest of the Chinese, European, Eurasian, and Arab minorities. Ethnological differences between the native Idonesian groups can be adjusted only through a more rapid Westernizatin program than that inaugurated by the Dutch. Nationalist leaders realize that the chief difficulty in this respect lies in the mistrust which Indonesians have developed toward Western civilization as represented by Dutch colonial rule. Since the European group is by no means homogeneous culturally, those elements in its ranks referred to as blijvers can best be relied upon to help an independent Indonesia to adjust to the modern world.
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