Argitha Aricindy, Clemens Six, Wasino Wasino, Hamdan Tri Atmaja, Atika Wijaya, Endah Sri Hartatik
This article examines the complexities of national education implemented beyond its geographic and cultural origins, focusing on the Indonesian School of The Hague (SIDH) in the Netherlands. Through a qualitative phenomenological approach, drawing on interviews, classroom observations, and document analysis, it critically explores the adaptation of the Indonesian national curriculum within a transnational context and the negotiation of cultural identity among diasporic communities. The findings position teachers as crucial pedagogical mediators, bridging standardized curricular expectations and students’ hybrid realities abroad. The study also highlights a pedagogical partnership with the Volkenkunde Museum in Leiden, facilitating intercultural learning through Indonesian cultural artefacts. However, inherent tensions between curriculum standardisation and learners’ fluid identities in multicultural environments are revealed. The article argues that integrating a national curriculum, character education, and institutional collaboration fosters culturally grounded and globally competent learners, ultimately contributing to global debates on diaspora schooling by framing education as a dynamic site of identity formation and cultural negotiation. © 2026 Pedagogy, Culture & Society.
Department of Social Studies Education, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia; Department of History, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; Department of History, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia; Department of History Education, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia; Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia
