Trajectories of Memory: Excavating the Past in Indonesia

ISBN-13: 9789819919970 / Angielski

Melani Budianta; Sylvia Tiwon

Opis

This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions, and historical personae in Indonesian official and popular expression, as they are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. The second part deals with memories of war and peace, examining transnational conflict and collaboration, the role of political elites and state projects dealing with the aftermath of military aggression, while also focusing on the impact and responses of civilians. The third part focuses on how state and civil societies frame historical figures, in ways that transcend the dichotomy of heroes and victims. The fourth part of the book looks at the way Indonesian museums and museology serve as sites where new kinds of memory work occur, in a post-1998 era.The book is designed with the aim of clearing a space for a plurality of memory works. Discussions in this volume extend from Loloda island in Eastern Indonesia, to Sabang island at the north westernmost end of the archipelago, and to the cosmopolitan centers. Temporally, it covers the colonial, the post-independence and contemporary eras. By juxtaposing diverse works, the book offers a new vista of multiple trajectories of memory being traced out in and about Indonesia.

This is an open access book.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction.

1. Trajectories of Memory: An Introduction.

Part II. Politics of Memory.

2. The Leadership of Muhammad Masserie in Perhimpoenan Kaoem Betawi (The Association of Ethnic Betawi) 1923-1940.

3. Locating Sikuru, “Hero of Loloda”.

4. The Treaty of Tumbang Anoi, 1894: Impact on Borneo’s Social Structure.

5. Minangkabau Silek Harimau: Evolving Oral Traditions, Performance and Choreography.

Part III. Remembering War and Peace.

6. National Histories, Private Memories: Indonesia and the Japanese Occupation.

7. Japanese War Memory and Transnational Activism for Indonesian Survivors of Enforced Military Prostitution During World War Two.

8. Memory of the Seroja Struggle: Challenges of Life after Military Operations 1978-1998.

9. From Stalin to Khruschev: The Dynamics of the Soviet Union - Indonesia Relations (1945-1964).

Part IV. Tracing Agency.

10. Politics of Recognition: Heroes, Victims, and the Contest over History in post-Suharto Indonesia.

11. Contestation and Coalition: The Role of Botoh in Local Political Dynamics, Tuban District, 1974-2006.- 12. Indoctrination in Higher Education: Guided Democracy Politics in Campus Environment (1961-1965).

13. Indonesia’s Student and Non-Student Protesters in May 1998: Break and Reunification.

Part V. Curating Memory.

14. Youth Visitor’s Meaning-Making Process on The National History of Indonesia in The Museum Sejarah Nasional: A Study of Constructivist Learning.

15. Engaging with the Public: Comparing the National Museum of Indonesia and the Kolong Tangga Museum from the perspective of New Museology.

16. Building Meaning in The Balai Kirti Presidential Museum of The Republic of Indonesia.

O autorze

Melani Budianta is Professor of literature and cultural studies, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia. She has a scholarly interest in the politics of representation, gender, power and cultural diversity. She has done transdisciplinary work in cultural commoning with cultural activists in Indonesia.

Sylvia Tiwon is Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She teaches literature, gender, oral and cultural studies of Southeast Asia with a focus on Indonesia. Her areas of interest include national and pre-national literature, oral discourse and mythologies, as well as socio-cultural formations.

Blurb

This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions, and historical personae in Indonesian official and popular expression, as they are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. The second part deals with memories of war and peace, examining transnational conflict and collaboration, the role of political elites and state projects dealing with the aftermath of military aggression, while also focusing on the impact and responses of civilians. The third part focuses on how state and civil societies frame historical figures, in ways that transcend the dichotomy of heroes and victims. The fourth part of the book looks at the way Indonesian museums and museology serve as sites where new kinds of memory work occur, in a post-1998 era.

The book is designed with the aim of clearing a space for a plurality of memory works. Discussions in this volume extend from Loloda island in Eastern Indonesia, to Sabang island at the north westernmost end of the archipelago, and to the cosmopolitan centers. Temporally, it covers the colonial, the post-independence and contemporary eras. By juxtaposing diverse works, the book offers a new vista of multiple trajectories of memory being traced out in and about Indonesia.
This is an open access book.

Melani Budianta is Professor of literature and cultural studies, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia. She has a scholarly interest in the politics of representation, gender, power and cultural diversity. She has done transdisciplinary work in cultural commoning with cultural activists in Indonesia.

Sylvia Tiwon is Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She teaches literature, gender, oral and cultural studies of Southeast Asia with a focus on Indonesia. Her areas of interest include national and pre-national literature, oral discourse and mythologies, as well as socio-cultural formations.