ABSTRACT

Indonesia, the largest archipelago in the world, has extremely diverse ethnic groups and immense cultural diversity. The field of psychology is still developing in Indonesia, and much work needs to be done. This chapter attempts to explain the history of Indonesian psychology of culture, which evolved from a predominantly Western colonialist perspective into an endorsement of an indigenous perspective. In the process of the evolution, the development of Indonesian psychology has not been separated from religion. The chapter concludes with a suggestion that more philosophical and empirical work needs to be done in order to integrate the many scattered attempts, and build a grand theory of Indonesian psychology of culture.