Prosiding ICAAE 2014 - KETIKA SENI MENJADI AGEN DEHUMANISASI DAN DENASIONALISASI: TINJAUAN PERSPEKTIF POSTKOLONIAL

Similar to the other sciences and also other entities of culture, the most important and strategic value of the existence of arts is for the sake of fighting for an enlightenment. Therefore, the ideal aesthetics that must be imperatively applied in the universe of culture is the existence of ‘beauty’ whose main entity cannot be separated from the ‘goodness’ and ‘truth’ dictum. Hence, what may be the main concern is the fact that various art representation reality particularly in the Indonesian context, its entity relatively far from the spirit of enlightenment as wanted. Currently, it doesn’t serve as the agent of enlightenment but on the contrary it tends to be the agent of decreasing humanism and nation identity. This unclear picture becomes more definite and clear, particularly when we try to discuss that from the Postcolonial perspective. In relation to this, this particular study tries to overview various dehumanization and denationalization matters, in terms of the Indonesian context seen from colonialization perspective after the colonial era. Keywords: arts, agent, dehumanization, denationalization, postcolonial perspective