Keeping Hope Seeing Indonesia's Past From The Edges

Baskara T. Wardaya SJ.

Apr 2017 · Sanata Dharma University Press

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INDONESIA, as you can see and feel every day, is a nation of interesting paradoxes. It comprises of more than sixteen thousand islands with hundreds of ethnic and linguistic communities, but it is one nation with one official language. It is the largest Muslim-majority country in the world, but it is governed under a democratic system, and it is one of the largest democracies on the planet. It is a nation known for being rich in natural resources since colonial times, but until recently refined oil and gas are imported. It is an island-nation surrounded by sea water, but for its daily consumption of salt the country said to be importing from other countries. In its early days Indonesia declared itself a democratic republic, but the first two presidents intended to rule as long as they wished, just like a hereditary king. It claims to be religious and full-of-smile nation, but there has been no official regret for the killings of hundreds of thousands of human done by its citizens half a century earlier. Indeed, it's a land of interesting paradoxes.

By using informal historical approach, this book is an invitation to the reader to sit back and reflect upon past events, issues, thoughts and hopes that are still very much operative in Indonesia today. The result might be the discovery of bright insights not only for keeping the hopes alive but also for creating a better collective future.

About the author

Dr. Baskara T. Wardaya SJ., adalah dosen sejarah di Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Meraih gelar Master dan PhD dalam Sejarah dari Marquette University di Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Selama studinya dan setelah menyelesaikan studinya ia telah melakukan penelitian tentang Indonesia pasca-kemerdekaan, terutama yang berkaitan dengan kekerasan massal anti-komunis 1965, konteks internasionalnya dan dampaknya. Pada tahun 20014-2005 ia melakukan penelitian pasca-doktoral di AS, yang disponsori oleh beasiswa Fulbright. Pada 2011-2012 ia dianugerahi hibah Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence untuk mengajar sejarah di University of California-Riverside, AS. Pada tahun 2014 ia menerima hibah dari AIFIS (American Institute for Indonesian Studies) untuk melakukan penelitian tentang hubungan AS-Indonesia pada masa pemerintahan Presiden Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974). Saat ini menjabat sebagai Ketua PUSDEMA (Pusat Kajian Demokrasi dan Hak-hak Asasi Manusia) Universitas Sanata Dharma. Ia telah menerbitkan sejumlah artikel dan buku tentang sejarah dan kekerasan massal Indonesia pasca 1945, antara lain Cold War Shadow: United States Policy to Indonesia, 1953-1963 (Yogyakarta: 2007); Truth Will Out: Kisah Indonesia tentang Kekerasan Massal 1965 (editor; Melbourne, Australia: 2013); Bung Karno Menggugat (Sukarno Menuduh; Yogyakarta: 2009, edisi ketujuh); dan Membongkar Supersemar (Membongkar Supersemar; Yogyakarta: 2017, edisi keempat). Bersama Bernd Schaefer ia ikut mengedit 1965: Indonesia and the World/Indonesia dan Dunia (Jakarta: 2013). Ia adalah salah satu kontributor buku Tom Stodulka dan Birgitt Rottger-Rossler, Feelings at the Margins: Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia (Berlin: 2014); Anett Keller, Indonesien 1965 dst (Berlin: 2015); dan David Webster, Bunga di Tembok: Memori, Kebenaran dan Rekonsiliasi di Timor Timur, Indonesia dan Melanesia (Calgary, Kanada: 2017). Alamat emailnya: [email protected]

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