Oral History in Indonesian History Textbooks

Aditya Nugroho Widiadi; Indah Wahyu Puji Utami; Moch Nizam Alfahmi

doi:10.2991/978-2-38476-624-6_13

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Oral History in Indonesian History Textbooks

From the 2013 Curriculum to the Kurikulum Merdeka

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Aditya Nugroho Widiadi¹^{, *}, Indah Wahyu Puji Utami¹, Moch Nizam Alfahmi¹

¹Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia

^*Corresponding author. Email: aditya_widiadi@um.ac.id

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Aditya Nugroho Widiadi

Available Online 19 October 2026.

DOI: 10.2991/978-2-38476-624-6_13 How to use a DOI?
Keywords: Oral History; History Textbooks; Kurikulum 2013; Kurikulum Merdeka
Abstract: This study aims to examine the position of oral history in history subjects in Indonesia. The study was conducted through a qualitative analysis of the curriculum documents and official textbooks of the last two curricula, namely the 2013 Curriculum and the Independent Curriculum (Kurikulum Merdeka). This study is important to do because so far there has been an old paradigm that considers that history only depends on written sources, such as the adage ‘without documents, there is no history’. Such a condition is ultimately reflected in historiographical works in Indonesia—and also around the world—which tend to rely on written sources and overlook oral sources. In fact, oral sources have an important role in reconstructing the past from a more humanistic and equitable perspective. The findings of this study indicate that there is a shift in the position of oral history in the two curricula, but unfortunately it has not been absolutely integrated because it has not equipped students with what oral history is and how to conduct research using oral history.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on History, Social Sciences, and Education (ICHSE 2026)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 19 October 2026
ISBN: 978-2-38476-624-6
ISSN: 2352-5398
DOI: 10.2991/978-2-38476-624-6_13 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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