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dance of the missing body – kotakhitamforumyogya
The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia
Rachmi Diyah Larasati
ABSTRACT
Larasati elucidates the complex, often paradoxical relationships between the dancing body and the Indonesian state since 1965. In the brief period from late 1965 to early 1966, approximately 1 million Indonesians, including a large percentage of the country’s musicians, dancers, and artists were killed, arrested, or disappeared as then-general Suharto took control of the nation, implanting his “New Order” regime, which would rule for the next thirty years. Looking back on the New Order from the context of the present, Larasati interrogates the specific ways in which female dancing bodies have been dealt with by the state: vilified, punished, then replaced with idealized, state aligned bodies. Drawing on critical ethnography and the theorization of dance as methodological approaches, the book analyses the relationship of corporeal punishment and the political economics of display to cultural production in the context of East-West cultural exchange, tourism, state diplomatic “culture missions,” and world/ ethnic dance as defined by its peripheral relationship to Europe and the US. Within this framework, Larasati seeks to expand understandings of the moving, dancing body as deployed by state power: a dual-edged rhetorical strategy that enacts the erasure of historical violence, while simultaneously providing access to mobility and a certain space for the negotiation of identity and female citizenship.
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Menari di Atas Kuburan Massal: Upaya Berbicara Balik dari Titik Nol (Amnesia) Sejarah
Ulasan buku Menari di Atas Kuburan Massal: Rekonstruksi Budaya Indonesia Pascagenosida karya Rachmi Diyah Larasati (INSISTPress, 2022)
Oleh: Cyntara, alumnus Kajian Budaya dan Media Sekolah Pascasarjana UGM; penari dan penulis lepas, tinggal di Bantul, Yogyakarta
Larasati’s focus is the horrific violence of 1965-66 and its aftermath. She explicates—from both an academic and a personal perspective—the multifaceted relationship between female dancers and the Indonesian state as Suharto took control of the country and then ruled for another three decades. Tn addition to being a professor of dance, Larasati is a classical dancer, one who performed as a member of the Indonesian Cultural Mission, a state-sanctioned dance troupe. Weaving memoir, history, and theory into a poignant narrative, she paints a compelling picture of the complex interplay between performance and the politics of memory, making the case that “the reconstruction of [national history and memory] serves to erase the extreme violence and chaos on which Suharto’s New Order state itself was founded” (p. xxi). State officials accomplished this, in part, by, first, recognizing that aesthetic practices are efficacious means of both communicating and influencing identity, embodied experience, and memory; and, second, by manipulating those practices to their own ends.
selengkapnya Shapiro-Phim, Toni in Indonesian Journal – ecommons.cornell.edu
The Dance That Makes You Vanish also insightfully reveals Larasati’s own history as a member of a family stigmatized by association with the pre-1965 Indonesian political left. Furthermore, Larasati’s personal experience during a cultural mission to Cambodia enables her to engage in an original and revealing comparison of the significance of recreated traditional dance in that country and her native Indonesia.
selengkapnya Michael H. Bodden – University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
As readers we thus eagerly anticipate that the chapters to come will offer new, detailed, experientially-grounded insights into two major issues—the impact of the 1965 repression on performers and their families, and the remoulding and appropriation of local art forms undertaken by the New Order state, analysed in general terms in the studies of scholars such as Philip Yampolsky, Greg Acciaioli and Amrih Widodo. Further, Larasati’s study promises to reveal unique insights into on as-yet unreported resist-ance to state control at the local level, and on wider international networks of critique and resistance. The inclusion of a chapter describing Larasati’s visits to Cambodia and drawing comparisons with the Indonesian situation suggests possible sharing of experience and critical strategies with Cambo-dian performers.
Barbara Hatley – University of Tasmania, Australia
Joe KINZER – Ethnomusicology Division, University of Washington
Ahalya Satkunaratnam – Cultural Studies and Humanities at Quest University Canada
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“Tubuh-tubuh perempuan, tubuh-tubuh yang menari: di buku yang menghantui ini, tubuh-tubuh itu menghantarkan kita pada teror politik dan penghapusannya melalui penampilan budaya yang dibungkus rapi dan aman. Hantu-hantu para penari yang dilenyapkan dalam prahara pembunuhan massal antikomunis yang didukung negara itu berkilapan di depan kita, pergerakan mereka direplikasi secara persis oleh penggantinya yang telah ‘dibersihkan’ oleh negara. Memoar di buku ini berayun keluar dan memasuki kritik budaya; kita pun digiring menuju titik pelenyapan di mana kekuasan dan kekerasan mengoyak lorong mereka hingga menembus relung jiwa.” ANNA TSING, penulis buku Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
Saturday University: Exploring Resilience in Dance in Java, Indonesia – Seattle Art Museum
In this two-way interview, Indonesian dancer and dance scholar Rachmi Diyah Larasati and American ethnomusicologist Christina Sunardi discuss the impact of the political genocide in Indonesia in 1965-66 on dance performance in Java. They will explore how experience and memory—both individual and social—influence bodily responses. As they trace the violent events of 1965-66 and focus on resilience, they discuss ways dance forms were altered in a post-1965 context to reinforce the new authoritarian government’s ideologies, and ways dancers resisted and maintained older practices, sometimes in hidden or altered forms, using their bodies as sites and holders of memory.
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simak 1700 ‘entry’ lainnya pada link berikut
Daftar Isi Perpustakaan Genosida 1965-1966
Road to Justice : State Crimes after Oct 1st 1965 (Jakartanicus)



Definisi yang diusulkan D. Nersessian (2010) untuk amandemen/ optional protocol Konvensi Anti-Genosida (1948) dan Statuta Roma (2000) mengenai Pengadilan Kejahatan Internasional. (disalin dari Harry Wibowo)