Sejarawan Kate McGregor melacak perjalanan aktivisme kasus-kasus kekerasan seksual di Indonesia dengan berfokus pada para perempuan yang dipaksa menjadi “wanita penghibur” pada zaman Jepang 1940-an. Ketika aktivisme transnasional mengenai kasus ini membuahkan gerakan-gerakan dan tuntutan besar di Korea Selatan, Filipina, dan Jepang sendiri, hal yang sama belum dialami para penyintas di Indo…
Under the New Order regime (1967-98), the Indonesian military sought to monopolise the production of official history and control its contents. The goal was to validate the political role of the armed forces, condemn communism and promote military values. In this detailed examination of the Indonesian military's image-making efforts, Katharine E. McGregor explores the formulation of national…
Edited by Douglas Kammen and Katharine McGregor The violence directed against the political left in Indonesia from 1965 until 1968 has been the subject of intense speculation. The large number of deaths, brutal interrogations, as well as rape, torture, short- and long-term detention and on-going discrimination inflicted on hundreds of thousands of people make this a compelling topic. However…
As Indonesia emerges from authoritarian rule, public intellectuals have begun to question the way the country's past has been remembered, memorialized and inscribed. Mary Zurbuchen's edited collection of essays addresses the many ways in which Indonesians have dealt with memory, its formation and its manipulation. The authors consider how narratives of the past have taken shape local, nation…