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Official History in Modern Indonesia
New Order Perceptions and Counterviews
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Dealing with New Order perceptions of the past this study gives insights into how the past can be used for purposes of national-building and regime legitimization and into the nature of the New Order. The Suharto regime created a coherent history that is reflected in recent archaeological and historical research, in popular histories and biographies, in monuments and in school textbooks.
The author describes an official history stretching from the proto-Indonesia of Majapahit, through the Indonesian Revolution up to the birth of the New Order in 1965. He also gives a counterview to this history stressing Indonesiaâs place in the larger Islamic world.
The past emphasized political stability and national unity under the guidance of the military and socially disruptive ideas were to be avoided.
The author describes an official history stretching from the proto-Indonesia of Majapahit, through the Indonesian Revolution up to the birth of the New Order in 1965. He also gives a counterview to this history stressing Indonesiaâs place in the larger Islamic world.
The past emphasized political stability and national unity under the guidance of the military and socially disruptive ideas were to be avoided.
Michael Wood, Ph.D. (2004) in Islamic Studies, McGill University, currently teaches Humanities at Dawson College, Montreal. He has previously published articles on perceptions of the past in modern Egypt and Indonesia. He also has an academic background in the archaeology of the ancient Near East and has taken part in several excavations in the region.
Acknowledgments
Note on Orthography and Sources
Preface
Chapter One: Using the Past
Chapter Two: Heroes and Golden AgesâThe Hindu-Buddhist, Islamic and Colonial Past
Chapter Three: Revolutions and CoupsâThe New Order and Modern Indonesian History
Chapter Four: Histories in WaitingâCounterviews to the New Orderâs Version of the Past
Chapter Five: Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Note on Orthography and Sources
Preface
Chapter One: Using the Past
Chapter Two: Heroes and Golden AgesâThe Hindu-Buddhist, Islamic and Colonial Past
Chapter Three: Revolutions and CoupsâThe New Order and Modern Indonesian History
Chapter Four: Histories in WaitingâCounterviews to the New Orderâs Version of the Past
Chapter Five: Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
This book will interest those studying the politics, history and culture of Indonesia/ Southeast Asia and the Islamic world, as well as those studying the political implications of archaeological research.