The Ideology of Territory in the Frames of Text Book of Indonesian History: between Facts and Myths

This paper reveals the results of a study against the historical content that contains the messages of territorial ideology by using discourse analysis method. Through this method, the material construction in accordance with the facts was juxtaposed as the events that happened with myth that created by the author of the text books which amplifies the message that wanted to build. The text books that reviewed in this paper were the high schools (SMA) history text books in accordance with the curriculum that used in Indonesia. Based on the results of this study, there are several themes or topics to strengthen the messages of ideology, especially about the ideology of territory. The purpose of the ideology is to grow the spirit of nationalism, feel the love of nation, to strengthen the integration of nation, and to achieve the goal of history education.