1 | ISLLAC : Journal of Intensive Studies on Language, Literature, Art, and Culture ISLLAC : Journal of Intensive Studies on Language, Literature, Art, and Culture Volume 2 Issue 2, 2018 Journal homepage : http://journal2.um.ac.id/index.php/jisllac VIOLENCE, SUBCULTURE, AND YOUTH GANG IN YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA POST ERA OF NEW ORDE Tassana Nualsomsri * (Walailak University, Thailand) ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keyword: violence, subculture, youth gang, post era of the new orde The research article entitled "Violence, Subculture, and Youth Gang in Yogyakarta Indonesia Post Era of the New Orde " aims to study the formation of adolescents in the city of Yogyakarta. The gangs are influential, and the patterns of activity generated by these groups often lead to violence. The emergence of many teen gangs in Indonesia and in the city of Yogyakarta after the New Orde era showed that the development and changes of these groups were not the results of government support as was evident in the New Orde era, but these youth were formed by several factors, mainly social factors, Indonesia's politics, and economy were increasingly complicated during the New Orde transition period. The results of this study found that the emergence of juvenile gangs in the city of Yogyakarta strengthens the culture of violence that has long been taking place in Indonesian society. Meanwhile, the education area of the city of Yogyakarta after the New Orde era has become a reflection of the problem. Coupled with the context of change as a result of several factors, namely economic factors, socio-cultural, religious, and others. INTRODUCTION The Yogyakarta city is an area where the growth and dynamics of changes in criminal groups and the ongoing culture of violence can be seen, as one of the important economic centers in Indonesia, especially income from tourism. Post- era of New Orde until now, Yogyakarta has developed into the second largest tourist destination after Bali, so that the city of Yogyakarta is rapidly developing, especially in the expansion of urban areas which causes a reduction in rural areas. So, it can be concluded that economic growth after the Asian economic crisis in 1997-1998 was quite fast, and the integration of various ethnic groups that came to Yogyakarta for business and education opportunities. This has caused Yogyakarta to be a reflection of the main social system of the Indonesian state which has ethnic and religious diversity. On the other hand, the city was once the center of Indonesia's struggle for independence in the war against the Dutch colonialists. During the war and after the end of World War II, the city of Yogyakarta has become the center of the emergence of several community organizations, such as the most influential group of religious organizations in Indonesia, Muhammadiyah, which was founded in 1912 and remains an influential group and plays an important role in social politics in Yogyakarta and Indonesia until now. The economic crisis that began in 1997 had a major impact on the Indonesian people, especially adolescents and men who had difficulty finding employment at that time. This problem appears to be related to the increase in the number of criminals that have occurred throughout Indonesia and is seen increasingly clearly during the transition to the Reformation era after the New Orde regime. Although the development of democracy as a whole has become a positive side in the Reformation Era, on the other * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: tad_nuan@hotmail.com (Tassana Nualsomsri) ISSN : 2597-7385 (Online) - ISLLAC : Journal of Intensive Studies on Language, Literature, Art, and Culture is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/).