Abstract
This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer is a historical novel about Dutch colonialism in Indonesia. This paper was aimed to find and describe the social stratification in the past that is written in the This Earth Mankind novel. This paper carried out with only one research question: How is social stratification of This Earth Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Novel?. This paper was qualitative research, specifically in document analysis. The main source of this paper was This Earth of Mankind, the 9th edition publishes by Hasta Mitra in 2002. The total page of this novel was 405. In addition, secondary sources are also needed such as online information about the writer and previous researcher who has been conducted similar research. This paper found that there were three social classes of society in the Dutch era, the Dutch group with privilege, enjoyed the lavish life, and live comfortably. The Native group with privilege, who was born from regent or governor, they can attend education where Dutch and Indo attended to such as E.L.S and H.B.S and the last, native group without privilege, they had low status in the society.
Highlights
This study aims to find the social stratification in the past that is reflected in the movie This Earth Mankind
The all-status group that shows in the novel The Earth of Mankind has three kinds. They are namely the Dutch group which has privilege, the native group with privilege who are from regent or governor family, and the native group without privilege who are born without any higher income from their family
This novel gives a description of the way Dutch people live lavishly, shows their perspective about native people in Hindia, and they are protected by European law
Summary
Colonial has widely known as act to controlling the certain country. Colonialist might bring negative and positive effect. Dutch colonialism influences every aspect in Indonesia till now. The culture, language, system in government and education are effect from Dutch colonialism. Nawawi (1971) stated that in several was, colonialism have contributed to the growth of nationalism of Indonesia. Colonial government creates the chance for modern education that in the future produce nationalist leader of Indonesia. It produces the nationalist movement in the future. From Nawawi’s statement we can know that one of the contributions from Dutch colonialism is education
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