Trajectories of Memory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Trajectories of Memory: An Introduction

      • Melani Budianta, Sylvia Tiwon

      Pages 3-19Open Access

3. Politics of Memory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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

      • Siswantari Sijono, Susanto Zuhdi

      Pages 23-40Open Access

   3. Locating Sikuru, “Hero of Loloda”

      • Abd. Rahman, Tommy Christomy, Susanto Zuhdi, L. G. Saraswati Putri

      Pages 41-59Open Access

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

      • Sitti Utami Haryanti

      Pages 61-75Open Access

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

      • Madia Patra Ismar, Pudentia Maria Purenti S. S., Syahrial

      Pages 77-95Open Access

4. Remembering War and Peace

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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

      • Jacob Wray

      Pages 99-116Open Access

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

      • Katharine McGregor

      Pages 117-136Open Access

   4. Memory of the Seroja Struggle: Memories and the Challenges of Life After Military Operations 1978–1998

      • Tria Sri Wahyuni, Agus Setiawan

      Pages 137-150Open Access

   5. From Stalin to Khrushchev: The Dynamics of Soviet Union–Indonesia Relations, 1945–1964

      • Ahmad Fahrurodji, Susanto Zuhdi

      Pages 151-167Open Access

5. Tracing Agency

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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

      • Paul O’Shea

      Pages 171-187Open Access

   3. Contestation and Coalition: The Role of Botohs in Local Political Dynamics, Tuban District, 1974–2006

      • Mokhamad Sodikin, Abdurakhman

      Pages 189-201Open Access

   4. Indoctrination in Higher Education: Guided Democracy Politics in Campus Environments, 1961–1965

      • Muhamad Trishadi Pratama, Mohammad Iskandar

      Pages 203-221Open Access

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

      • Jonathan Peter Tehusijarana

      Pages 223-246Open Access

6. Curating Memory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

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   2. Youth Visitor’s Meaning-Making During Visit to the National History of Indonesia in The Museum Sejarah Nasional: Study of Constructivist Learning

      • Suprayitno, Kresno Yulianto Soekardi

      Pages 249-269Open Access

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.

• 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
• Open Access

• Literature Department Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia

  Melani Budianta

• Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

  Sylvia Tiwon

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.