Beginning to remember : the past in the Indonesian present /
edited by Mary S. Zurbuchen.
- First edition.
- Seattle : Singapore University Press in association with University of Washington Press, (c)2005.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 376 pages) : illustrations.
- Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies .
Originally published: Singapore : Singapore University Press, (c)2004. 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 bibliographies and index.
Historical memory in contemporary Indonesia / My life as a shadow master under Suharto / Kali : a libretto / The persistence of evil and the impossibility of truth in Goenawan Mohamad's Kali / In search of memory : how Malay tales try to shape history / Collective memories of the Qahhar movement / Ninjas in narratives of local and national violence in post-Suharto Indonesia / Remembering and forgetting war and revolution / Memory, knowledge, and reform / Nugroho Notosusanto : the legacy of a historian in the service of an authoritarian regime / The battle for history after Suharto / Lubang Buaya : histories of trauma and sites of memory / Material witnesses : reformasi photographs and popular memory / Monument, document, and mass grave : the politics of representing violence in Bali / Transitional truth-seeking : a comparative perspective on Indonesia, East Timor, and South Africa / Mary S. Zurbuchen -- Tristuti Rachmadi -- Goenawan Mohamad -- Laurie J. Sears -- Hendrik M.J. Maier -- Andi F. Bakti -- Fadjar I. Thufail -- Anthony Reid -- Daniel S. Lev -- Katharine McGregor -- Gerry van Klinken -- Klaus H. Schreiner -- Karen Strassler -- Degung Santikarma -- Paul van Zyl.
"Beginning to Remember addresses the many ways in which Indonesians have dealt with memory, its formation and its manipulation." "The writers in this collection consider how narratives of the past have taken shape, at local, national, group and individual levels in Indonesia, exploring the reasons why various understandings of issues such as national solidarity, citizenship, power, ethnic identity, religious belief and regional loyalty appeal to different elements in modern Indonesian society. They focus in particular at how Indonesia remembers trauma and violence. This diverse group of Indonesian and international scholars and commentators develop an understanding of the issues that most concern Indonesians as they reinterpret their recent history and the society it has shaped."--Jacket.