Beginning to Remember The Past in the Indonesian Present / edited by Mary S. Zurbuchen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zurbuchen, Mary S.

Series:

Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies.

Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

hukommelse.

politiske forhold.

historie.

Indonesien.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, 2005.

Summary:

Beginning to Remember charts Indonesia's turbulent decades of cultural repression and renewal amid the rise and fall of Suharto's New Order regime. These cross-disciplinary pieces illuminate Indonesia’s current efforts to reexamine and understand its past in order to shape new civic and cultural arrangements.In 1998, "reformasi" brought a wave of relief and euphoria. But Suharto's removal did not dispel persistent corruption, official secrecy and denial, religious and ethnic violence, and security policies leading to tragedy in East Timor, Aceh, and other regions. But the reformasi did open up new possibilities for seeing the past. What followed was a surge of discourse that challenged officially codified national history in mass media and publishing, in public policy debate, in the arts, and in popular mobilization and politics.This volume is an exploration of some of the expressions, narratives, and interpretations of the past found in Indonesia today. The authors illustrate ways in which the dissolution of the Indonesian state's monopoly on history is now permitting new national, local, and individual accounts and representations of the past to emerge. The book covers fields from performing arts and literature to anthropology, history, and transitional justice.The book opens with Goenawan Mohamad's dramatic poem Kali, the first publication of this important work by one of Indonesia’s leading intellectuals, which has become the libretto for an international opera production. Another chapter is a personal memoir by one of Java’s famous shadow-play masters, Tristuti Rachmadi, for years imprisoned under the New Order. Leading historian Anthony Reid commemorates the national struggle at the regional level, while South African lawyer Paul van Zyl compares efforts in transitional justice in Indonesia, East Timor, and South Africa.

Contents:

Part three (Daniel S. Lev: Memory, knowledge and reform

Nugroho Notosusanto : the legacy of a historian in the service of an authoritarian regime / Katharine E. McGregor

The battle for history after Suharto). Part four (Klaus H. Schreiner: Lubang Buaya : histories of trauma and sites of memory / Gerry van Klinken

Material witnesses : photographs and the making of Reformasi memory / Karen Strassler

Monument, document and mass grave : the politics of representing violence in Bali / Degung Santikarma

Dealing with the past : reflections on South Africa, East Timor and Indonesia) / Paul van Zyl.

Indhold:My life as a Shadow Master under Suharto / Part one (Ki Tristuti Rachmadi

Kali : a libretto / Goenawan Mohamad

The persistence of evil and the impossibility of truth in Goenawan Mohamad's Kali / Laurie J. Sears

In search of memories : how Malay tales try to shape history). Part two (Andi F. Bakti: Collective memories of the Qahhar movement / Hendrik M.J. Maier

Ninjas in narratives of local and national violence in post-Suharto Indonesia / Fadjar I. Thufail

Remembering and forgetting war and revolution) / Anthony Reid.

Notes:

Originally published: Singapore : Singapore University Press, c2004.

Revised papers originally presented at a conference on history and memory in Indonesia held at the University of California, Los Angeles in April 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-370) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295998763

0295998768

OCLC:

931877857