Contribution Of Russian Activity Theory To Psychology In Indonesia

In this paper my aim is to introduce the concept of activity and its potential contribution to Indonesian psychology, to establish dialogue with socio-cultural realities in Indonesia, and to build meaningful psychology body of knowledge. To achieve the aim for Indonesian audience, it is necessary fi rst to understand the crisis in psychology in early decades of 20th century. The crisis was much debated mostly among European continental authors (Teo, 2005: 28). Vygotsky is one of major fi gures in the debate. He and his followers have developed an approach based on Marxist philosophy that is aimed to overcome the crisis. Understanding of the crisis is an important background to understand activity theory.