COMPLETION REPORTA Brief Overview of The Japanese Literature Major at Universities in Indonesia
Dr. Fithyani Anwar
Lecturer
Hasanuddin University
The number of Japanese learners in Indonesia became the second largest in the world and this number increases every
year. Today, there are 32 active universities in Indonesia with Japanese Language Literature undergraduate program(bachelor degree) with varies majors like Japanese linguistics, literature, and history or culture (exclude Japanese
education program). Japanese language program at universities in Indonesia has a long history. The establishment of theJapanese Literature Department for bachelor degree at Padjadjaran University Bandung in 1960 recorded as the firstJapanese literature department in Indonesia.

The purpose of this study is to describe the actual condition of the Japanese Literature Major at universities in Indonesia
from the curriculum, lecturers, etc during 2016-2017. The research includes field research to Japanese Department at 7universities (Universitas Sumatera Utara, Universitas Andalas, Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Padjadjaran,Universitas Diponegoro, Universitas Gadjah Mada, and Universitas Hasanuddin), and library research by earning datafrom related web sites and references.
This study found that there are about 283 lecturers at Japanese literature department bachelor degree (exclude Japaneseeducation) at 32 universities in Indonesia. From this number, 21 lecturers have doctoral degree from various fields. There
isn’t any master either doctoral program for Japanese literature at any universities in Indonesia so the number of lecturers
who specialized on Japanese literature are less from the total number. From 7 universities data, Japanese literature subject
content mostly start from the 4th semester with brief history or introduction and followed by Japanese short stories,poems and plays. The content of the subjects each department depends on the lecturers and varies to their own
knowledge. In many departments, the lack of the literature specialized lecturer made lecturers from other fields likelinguistics or culture forced to handle and design the subjects. The objects of the student’s thesis are various from theModern Japanese Literature works until Contemporer Literature works with various approach. Most used approach wasbasic Structural Theory at the beginning and then improved into other approaches such as sociology, psychology andliterature comparison.
This study recommends making an association or meeting on Japanese literature for the whole universities with Japanese
literature major, inviting some experts from Japan to formulate a standard curriculum for Japanese literature teaching andto share knowledges.

Publication of the Results of Research Project:
Verbal Presentation (Date, Venue, Name of Conference, Title of Presentation, Presenter, etc.)
Date: October 5th 2017

Venue: Andalas University, Padang City, West Sumatera

Name of Conference : ASJI International Conference 2017
“Labour, employment & Industry in Japan and Indonesia; Cultural, Social, andEconomic Perspectives”
Title of Presentation: Work Oriented Subjects on Curriculum of Japanese Literature Departments
at Universities in Indonesia

Presenter: Fithyani Anwar, Idrus

Thesis (Name of Journal and its Date, Title and Author of Thesis, etc.)
Name of Journal: Jurnal Puitika Vol.14 No. 2 (2018)

Date: September 2018

Title

: New Challenge for Japanese Literature Education in Indonesia

Author: Fithyani Anwar, Idrus

Book (Publisher and Date of the Book, Title and Author of the Book, etc.)