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Language Ungoverned
By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and
newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G. Hoogervorst's
Language Ungoverned examines how
the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguistic and
political governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh
perspective on the subversive role of language in colonial power
relations.
As a liminal colonial population, the ethnic Chinese in
Indonesia resorted to the press for their education, legal and
medical advice, conflict resolution, and entertainment. Hoogervorst
deftly depicts how the linguistic choices made by these print
entrepreneurs brought Chinese-inflected Malay to the fore as the
language of popular culture and everyday life, subverting the
official Malay of the Dutch authorities. Through his readings of
Sino-Malay print culture published between the 1910s and 1940s,
Hoogervorst highlights the inherent value of this vernacular Malay
as a language of the people.
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Workers, unions and politics : Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s
\"In Workers, Unions and Politics : Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s, John Ingleson revises received understandings of the decade and a half between the failed communist uprisings of 1926/1927 and the Japanese occupation in 1942. They were important years for the labour movement. It had to recover from the crackdown by the colonial state and then cope with the impact of the 1930s depression. Labour unions were voices for greater social justice, for stronger legal protection and for improved opportunities for workers. They created a discourse of social rights and wage justice. They were major contributors to the growth of a stronger civil society. The experiences and remembered histories of these years helped shape the agendas of post-independence labour unions\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Religious Pluralism in Indonesia
In 1945, Sukarno declared that the new Indonesian republic would
be grounded on monotheism, while also insisting that the new nation
would protect diverse religious practice. The essays in
Religious Pluralism in Indonesia explore how the state,
civil society groups, and individual Indonesians have experienced
the attempted integration of minority and majority religious
practices and faiths across the archipelagic state over the more
than half century since Pancasila.
The chapters in Religious Pluralism in Indonesia offer
analyses of contemporary phenomena and events; the changing legal
and social status of certain minority groups; inter-faith
relations; and the role of Islam in Indonesia's foreign policy.
Amidst infringements of human rights, officially recognized
minorities-Protestants, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhists and
Confucians-have had occasional success advocating for their rights
through the Pancasila framework. Others, from Ahmadi and Shi'i
groups to atheists and followers of new religious groups, have been
left without safeguards, demonstrating the weakness of Indonesia's
institutionalized \"pluralism.\"
Contributors: Lorraine Aragon, Christopher Duncan, Kikue
Hamayotsu, Robert Hefner, James Hoesterey, Sidney Jones, Mona
Lohanda, Michele Picard, Evi Sutrisno, Silvia Vignato
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Cars, conduits, and kampongs : the modernization of the Indonesian city, 1920-1960
\"Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of the cities in Indonesia between 1920 and 1960. The contributions present a case for asserting that Indonesian cities were not merely the backdrop to processes of modernization and rising nationalism, but formed a causal factor. Modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. The various chapters deal with such innovations as the provision of medical treatments, fresh water and sanitation, the implementation of town planning and housing designs, and policies for coping with increased motorized traffic and industrialization. The contributors share a broad critique of the economic and political dimensions of colonialism, but remain alert to the agency of colonial subjects who respond, often critically, to a European modernity\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia
The essays in Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia examine, from a historical perspective, how contested notions of modernity, civilization and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia (c. 1901-1942), a period when a liberal reform program known as the Ethical Policy was being implemented under the Dutch colonial regime.
This volume is the first English-language study of the Ethical Policy. It is also the first study to examine 'ethical' ways of seeing through photography, a medium whose proliferation among a mass audience as well as amateur practitioners coincided with a reform era that brought significant social and political change to colonial Indonesia.
The essays in this collection, by leading scholars in the field - Susie Protschky, Jean Gelman Taylor, Rudolf Mràzek, Henk Schulte Nordholt, Karen Strassler, Pamela Pattynama, Joost Cotè and Paul Bijl - reveal how the camera evoked diverse, often contradictory modes of envisioning an ethically-governed colony, one in which the promises of 'modernity' and 'civilization' were contested notions. Photographs made by and for Indonesian men and women, Chinese, and Indo-Europeans provide unique insights into the concerns of historical actors whose views on the Ethical Policy have rarely been canvassed. Photographs taken by European authorities also provide new perspectives on how the reform program was conceived and implemented by the governing classes.
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A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942
In A History of Plague in Java,
1911-1942 , Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk
demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of
plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health
interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia. Eager to combat
disease, Dutch physicians and officials integrated the traditional
Javanese house into the \"rat-flea-man\" theory of transmission.
Hollow bamboo frames and thatched roofs offered hiding spaces for
rats, suggesting a material link between rat plague and human
plague. Over the next thirty years, 1.6 million houses were
renovated or rebuilt, millions more were subjected to periodic
inspection, and countless Javanese were exposed to health messaging
seeking to \"rat-proof\" their beliefs along with their houses.
The transformation of houses, villages, and people was
documented in hundreds of photographs and broadcast to overseas
audiences as evidence of the \"ethical\" nature of colonial rule,
proving so effective as propaganda that the rebuilding continued
even as better alternatives, such as inoculation, became available.
By systematically reshaping the built environment, the Dutch plague
response dramatically expanded colonial oversight and influence in
rural Java.
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A History of Modern Indonesia
Although Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world, its history is still relatively unfamiliar and understudied. Guided by the life and writings of the country's most famous author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Adrian Vickers takes the reader on a journey across the social and political landscape of twentieth-century Indonesia in this innovative and timely account. He begins by explaining the country's origins under the Dutch in the early part of that century, the subsequent anti-colonial struggle and revolution which led to independence in 1949. Thereafter the spotlight is on the 1950s, a crucial period in the formation of Indonesia as a new nation, which was followed by the Sukarno years, and the anti-communist massacres of the 1960s when General Suharto took over as president. The concluding chapters chart the fall of Suharto's New Order after thirty two years in power, and the subsequent political and religious turmoil which culminated in the Bali bombings in 2002. Drawing on insights from literature, art and anthropology, Adrian Vickers portrays a complex and resilient people borne out of a troubled past.
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