Public Debates About History

Comparative Notes from Indonesia

Bibliographic Data

ID12650201
AuthorsAdria Vickers (University of Wollongong, corresponding author), E McGregor Katharine (Himeji Medical Center, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume2
Issue2
Pages44-1
Publication date2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Australia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1449-0854 • E-ISSN: 1833-4881
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2104/ha050044
OpenAlexW1501465559
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited10

Since the fall of President Suharto in 1998, new debates have opened up in Indonesia about the nature and purpose of national history. The most controversial of a series of issues is the interpretation of the 1965 Coup and killings of communists that followed it. The debates involve questions of historical truth and of the narration of the past in terms of national ideology. Parallels with Australia’s ‘history wars’ indicate the centrality of history to problems of national identity.This article has been peer-reviewed. Additional informationNotes on contributorsAdria VickersAdrian Vickers is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Wollongong, where he teaches Southeast Asian History and researches in the Centre for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies. His most recent book is the forthcoming History of Modern Indonesia to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.E. McGregor KatharineKatharine E. McGregor teaches Southeast Asian history at the University of Melbourne. She has carried out extensive research on military history in Indonesia, the subject of a forthcoming monograph

Media studies · Political science · Public history · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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