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Soeharto

State response to protests echoes darker times
Academia 1 week ago

State response to protests echoes darker times

Though the recent protests evoked a darker chapter in the nation’s history, they also mark a d...
Resurging nationalism in Southeast Asia: A blessing or a curse?
Academia 4 weeks ago

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Resurging nationalism in Southeast Asia: A blessing or a curse?

Nationalism is experiencing a resurgence as an elitist construct, not just in Southeast Asia but acr...
Rewriting the past, reviving authoritarianism?
Politics 1 month ago

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Rewriting the past, reviving authoritarianism?

In 1971, about three years after Soeharto took office, military historian Nugroho Notosusanto led a ...
Delay triggers fresh demands to scrap history rewrite
Politics 1 month ago

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Delay triggers fresh demands to scrap history rewrite

​​Human rights activists and historians are urging the government to scrap its controversial nationa...
Revising history: A return to an incomplete narrative?
Academia 2 months ago

Revising history: A return to an incomplete narrative?

The rewriting of national history is a calculated move to bolster an increasingly authoritarian gove...
Lawmakers push to halt Fadli Zon’s 'history denialism' textbooks
Society 2 months ago

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Lawmakers push to halt Fadli Zon’s 'history denialism' textbooks

Following the culture minister's skepticism over the mass rapes that occurred  during the M...
Acknowledging our dark past
Editorial 2 months ago

Acknowledging our dark past

Removing violent accounts from history books will not "right a wrong" but rather woul...
Female activist threatened after protesting minister’s denial of 1998 mass rape
Politics 2 months ago

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Female activist threatened after protesting minister’s denial of 1998 mass rape

Historian and activist Ita Fatia Nadia revealed that she has received anonymous threats after protes...
Critics decry omissions of past atrocities in history draft
Politics 3 months ago

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Critics decry omissions of past atrocities in history draft

A group of historians and human rights activists have raised concern over a draft of the government&...
Why a government-sponsored history project is stirring controversy
Society 3 months ago

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Why a government-sponsored history project is stirring controversy

In a country where history is often shaped by politics, new state-backed textbooks have raised conce...
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