The Contestation of Social Memory in the New Media: A Case Study of the 1965 Killings in Indonesia
Hakimul Ikhwan, Vissia Ita Yulianto & Gilang Desti Parahita – Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 12 (1), 3-16
While today’s Indonesian democratic government remains committed to the New Order orthodoxy about the mass killings of 1965, new counter-narratives challenging official history are emerging in the new media. Applying mixed-methods and multi-sited ethnography, this study aims to extend our collaborative understanding of the most recent developments in this situation by identifying multiple online interpersonal stories,deliberations, and debates related to the case as well as offline field studies in Java and Bali. Practically and theoretically, we ask how the tragedy of the 1965 killings is contested in the new media and how social memory plays out in this contestation. The study finds that new media potentially act as emancipatory sites channeling and liberating the voices of those that the nation has stigmatized as ‘objectively guilty’. We argue that the arena of contestation is threefold: individual, public vs. state narrative, and theoretical. As such, the transborder space of the new media strongly mediates corrective new voices to fill missing gaps in the convoluted history of this central event of modern Indonesian history
Memorif of “65 : Young Indonesian Go Digital to Shine A Light On Massacre Denied
Dr Ken Setiawan, Indonesian civil rights specialist, explains how a new generation of Indonesians are using digital and social media platforms to keep the memory of the genocide of 1965-1966 alive as successive government administrations stall on uncovering the truth. Presented by Sen Lam.
Menunggu Masa Lalu Berlalu : memori Kolektif mengenai PKI dan Komunisme – Fian Kurniawan
Internet dan media baru punya andil besar dalam pembentukan ingatan tandingan tentang peristiwa 1965. Dalam era Orde Baru, proses penubuhan memori kolektif dalam bentuk-bentuk kebudayaan sepenuhnya ditentukan oleh kelompok elit. Negara adalah “narator” ingatan, sementara publik hanya “pembaca” narasi tersebut. Hal ini dimungkinkan oleh kontrol negara dalam memproduksi artefak-artefak kebudayaan. Pada era Orde Baru, negara punya instrumen kekuasaan untuk menciptakan museum dan monumen, mendanai film berbudget besar, mengontrol produksi dan distribusi media, hingga menentukan kurikulum sekolah. Instrumen-instrumen ini tidak bisa bekerja, atau setidaknya tidak efektif dalam, ruang diskursif yang diciptakan oleh media baru.
Dalam perkembangannya, teknologi media baru menghasilkan budaya interaksi yang lebih demokratis. Produksi wacana tidak lagi terpusat dalam institusi media atau pemerintahan, melainkan dipercakapkan oleh simpul-simpul komunitas daring yang tidak harus saling berinteraksi dalam dunia luring. Media sosial tidak hanya terbuka bagi semua orang dalam hal aksesibilitas, namun juga dalam hal negosiasi makna (Bartoletti, 2011). Narasi dominan bisa dipertanyakan, dan alternatif bisa bekembang subur.
Indonesia’s 1965 Tragedy: Hope Returns After 51 Years – Kartika Pratiwi
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FILLING IN THE GAPS Remembering the 1965 Killings in Indonesia Kar-Yen Leong Tamkang University
Nevertheless, with the advent of the Internet, human rights activists as well as historical “revisionists” have begun to use the cyber sphere as way to fill in the “gaps” in terms of Indonesia’s narrative concerning the killings of 1965. This paper investigates the dynamics behind the use of this medium in transmitting this dark episode to a younger generation of Indonesians. It looks specifically at Ingat 1965, a website that utilizes “private memory” as a way to “resist” as well as reinvent the narrative, which has so long been dominated by the state. This paper also includes an investigation into how Indonesia is beginning to deal with its past.
A project on Medium to chronicle Indonesia’s anti-communist purges is now a moving digital scrapbook. – Erin Cook
Hundreds of writers are volunteering their time to contribute to Ingat 65, a journalist-led project to ensure the 1960s massacres are never forgotten.
Digital community Ingat65 remembers 1965 – The Jakarta Post
Reclaiming Indonesian-ness: Offline-Online Engagement of Indonesian Exiles in Netherland
Ibnu Nadzir Research Center for Society and Culture, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2KK-LIPI A Holoust Story for the Social Media Generation
INGAT 65 [CERITAKU CERITAMU CERITA KITA TENTANG 65]
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New Media & the Holocaust – Johanna Blakley
A Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation
1994 Genocide : How Social Media has changed the way we remember
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Daftar Isi Perpustakaan Genosida 1965-1966
Road to Justice : State Crimes after Oct 1st 1965 (Jakartanicus)
Perpustakaan Online Genosida 1965-1966 