Trajectories of Memory Excavating the Past in Indonesia

• Other Authors: Budianta, Melani (Editor), Tiwon, Sylvia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Nature 2023
• Subjects: Historiography; Politics & government; Cultural studies; Political science & theory; Kolong Tangga Education and Toy Museum; New Museology Theory in Indonesia; Museum Sejarah Nasional; Meaning-Making and History of Indonesia; Presidential Museum of the Republic of Indonesia; Poetics of Exhibition in Indonesia; Visual Propaganda of Vienna Stamps in Indonesia; History in post-Suharto Indonesia; Indonesia's Student Protesters in May 1998; Botoh in Local Political Dynamics; Memory and Civil Society in Indonesia; Poetics of Memory in Indonesia; Indonesian Memories of the Japanese Occupation; Dynamics of the Soviet Union - Indonesia Relations; Guided Democracy Politics in Indonesian Campus Environments; Operations Seroja Soldiers in Seroja Complex Bekasi; SilekHarimau Minangkabau; Treaty Tumbang Anoi 1894; Reclaiming Space in Loloda North Molucca
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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.