The Phantom World of Digul : Policing As Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shiraishi, Takashi.

Series:

Kyoto-CSEAS series on Asian studies ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boven Digoel (Concentration camp).

Boven Digoel (Concentration camp)--History.

Indonesia--Politics and government--1798-1942.

Indonesia.

Boven Digoel (Indonesia)--History.

Boven Digoel (Indonesia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Phantom World of Digul

Place of Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Digul was an internment colony for political prisoners established in 1926, upriver in West Papua. It is the key to understanding Indonesia's colonial rule between the failed communist rebellion of late 1926 and the fall of the Indies to the Japanese in 1942, a time when the Dutch regime attempted to impose "rust en orde", peace and order, on the Indonesian people via the suppression of politics by the police. The political policing regime the Dutch Indies state created was both a success and a failure. The native terrain was never completely pacified. Activists linked up with each other in fluid networks that cut across spatial and ideational boundaries. How did the government deploy political policing to achieve its policy objectives? What were the consequences and challenges for Indonesian activists? How was the government able to fashion its policing apparatus as the most potent instrument to achieve peace and order when the Great Depression hit the Indies, nationalist and communist forces were gaining strength in other places of the world and war was coming both in Europe and Asia? This long-awaited sequel to the author's acclaimed An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912-1926, attempts to answer these questions.

Contents:

Half title page

Full title page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Images

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 - The Phantom World of Digul

Chapter 2 - A New Regime of Order

Image Section

Chapter 3 - Policing the Phantom Underground

Chapter 4 - Managing Nationalist Politics

Chapter 5 - Politics=Police

Chapter 6 - Politics in a Time of Normalcy

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

KCSEAS Series on Asian Studies.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789813251663

9813251662

OCLC:

1266643987