Early Civilisations: Old Kingdoms, Great Kings and Trade Empires Lower Secondary SOSE Unit Studies of Asia Learning Emphases Developing concepts of Asia World contributions by peoples of Asia Specific Indonesia focus: Understand Indonesia's past and the impact of past events on contemporary Indonesia. Explore the links between the growth of the Indonesian spice industry and early European contact. Students journey through time from Indonesia's earliest recorded history to the coming of the Dutch, recording some influential kingdoms, important people and significant events. Earlier Times in Indonesia Digging Deeper into Indonesia's History The Spice Trade Stepping into Another's Shoes Teaching and Learning Activities Earlier Times in Indonesia The site below includes a concise summary of Indonesian history. Print out those pages that relate to Prehistory, The Hindu/Buddhist Period, Islam, The Portuguese Period, The English Period and The Dutch Era. Indonesia.net: Culture and History http://www.indonesia.net/History.htm Divide the class into six groups. Allocate each group a different period and give them a copy of the information on that period. Students read the information and make notes of the key points. Each student makes a copy of the group's notes. Allocate students in each group a number from 1-6. All the 1's form a group, all the 2's form a group etc until all students have formed their new group. Explain that each person in a group is now an 'expert' in a particular period of Indonesian history. Their task is to explain to the rest of their group the key points on their period. They are to explain why particular groups came to Indonesia. Each group records its findings on a poster and presents it to the class for discussion and display. Digging Deeper into Indonesia's History Reading for information Working individually and using the following websites, students complete the activities on the Early Civilisations Activity Sheet and share their findings. Sejarah Indonesia: An Online Time-Line of Indonesia http://www.gimonca.com/sejarah/ The History of the Republic of Indonesia http://www.dfa-deplu.go.id/2003/index.php?content=documents&type=94b839bc96c4bb97a992f4ec002eb6f4,cd3e9d4cb5c63d345db616e9bd5449d3&menu=About%20Indonesia&subtype=cd3e9d4cb5c63d345db616e9bd5449d3&submenu=History&strContentMenu=History Indonesia - A Country Study http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/idtoc.html Mapping the past On a large wall map of the world students locate the following significant places in Indonesian history: Indonesia, China, Holland, India, Mongolia, the Middle East, Portugal, Cambodia, England and Spain. Students imagine that they live in the past, without cars, planes or other forms of modern transport and in which travel is laborious and time-consuming. They examine the world map for the most probable routes that early travellers from the places listed above might take to Indonesia. Using coloured wool to trace the route, they link these places to Indonesia. The Spice Trade Students select either the Portuguese or the Dutch era to research in more depth. Working in groups and using information already collected on their era, they brainstorm key words with which to search the Internet for more details. Key words and phrases could include spice trade, colonial rule, Maluku, Ternate, Batavia and VOC. Using the information collected, including maps and illustrations, students answer the following questions: Why did Europeans come to Indonesia? How did they travel to Indonesia? Did they come alone or in groups? What were the agricultural products of the places they visited? Why did the Europeans want spices? Was life peaceful in those parts of Indonesia exposed to the Europeans? What did the Europeans leave as a legacy? Stepping into Another's Shoes Students pretend to be someone who has been sent to Indonesia during the Portuguese or Dutch period to investigate rumours of wonderful new spices. They create a diary of their week-long stay in the Spice Islands or Batavia. They should include descriptions of the places they visit as if seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting them for the first time, and descriptions and sketches of the spices and their possible uses (medicinal, cosmetic, culinary). They could create booklets with the pages stained with cold tea bags to create the look of parchment. Useful additional sites include: The Lure of Spices... http://www.astaspice.org/history/history_main.htm Travelling to Indonesia - Maluku http://www.emp.pdx.edu/htliono/MALUKU.html Semarang on Photos http://www.semarang.nr.nl/ Historical photos, short films and other information about Semarang, the capital of central Java. Spices and the Spice Routes: Explorers of the East http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/9000/spices/indexSpices.html   Note: The student activity sheets are available in PDF format and require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in to view and print them out. The Acrobat Reader plug-in can be downloaded from the Adobe website.   | Classroom Resources | Curriculum Guides | Resources | Go Indonesia! | Home | Access Asia Lesson Plans  Commonwealth of Australia and Curriculum Corporation