Keith Foulcher

The Indonesian "Institute of People's Culture" 1950-1965

Social Commitment in Literature and the Arts

Keith Foulcher dalam buku ini menyoroti proses perkembangan Sumpah Pemuda sebagai simbol nasional yang penting. Ia menyusuri sejarah Sumpah Pemuda sejak 1928 hingga sekarang. Ia berargumentasi bahwa Sumpah Pemuda yang kita kenal sekarang merupakan suatu hasil dari akumulasi nilai-nilai yang disisipkan dan dititipkan dalam peristiwa 93 tahun silam itu. Ia bukan hendak menggugat keabsahan pentingnya peristiwa itu, tetapi ingin menyadarkan kita untuk bersikap kritis terhadap diperalatnya sejarah Sumpah Pemuda untuk kepentingan penguasa menghadapi tantangan zaman ke zaman. Ia mengajak kita memahami prosesnya secara historis sehingga Sumpah Pemuda menjadi salah satu simbol nasional yang penting dalam konteks untuk memahami Indonesia.

Makna & Proses Penciptaan Simbol Kebangsaan Indonesia

Sumpah Pemuda

Putu Oka Sukanta

puisi tertindas

Tembang Jalak Bali

Tony Day

Papers delivered at a workshop on 'Postcoloniality and the Question of Modern Indonesian Literature' in May 1998 at University of Sydney.

Postcolonial Readings of Modern Indonesian Literature

Clearing a Space

Literature and Nationalism in Indonesia, 1933-1942

Pujangga Baru

Manneke Budiman

Mikihiro Moriyama

Political changes since the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998 have had a significant impact on linguistic and discursive practices in Indonesia. The language policy of the state has become less restrictive than in the past, when Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) was vigorously promoted as one of the symbols of the unity of the country's diverse ethnic groups. Monolingualism in public space has given way to more fluid and pluralistic language use, and regional autonomy legislation enacted in 1999 has encouraged expressions of regional identities and aspirations, opening up a space for the promotion and use of regional languages in the media, education and the bureaucracy. Concurrently, technological development, in particular widespread access to the internet, has exposed Indonesian society much more directly than before to global flows of information, giving rise to changes stemming in part from sources outside Indonesia, but interpreted and shaped according to local conditions and socio-cultural practices. The meeting of these two vectors, one generated internally and the other coming from exposure to global trends, is producing a situation of diversity, fluidity and change in language use and discursive practice in contemporary Indonesian society. While contributors to this volume discuss Indonesian-language expression at the national level, a particular focus of the collection is on regional, local and minority languages, where problems associated with decentralization find their counterpart in the role that language plays in the workings of regional and national identity politics.

Language and Discourse in Post-new Order Indonesia

Words in Motion

Brian Russell Roberts

While Richard Wright's account of the 1955 Bandung Conference has been key to shaping Afro-Asian historical narratives, Indonesian accounts of Wright and his conference attendance have been largely overlooked. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters, as well as a newly recovered lecture by Wright, previously published only in Indonesian. Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher introduce and contextualize these documents with extensive background information and analysis, showcasing the heterogeneity of postcolonial modernity and underscoring the need to consider non-English language perspectives in transnational cultural exchanges. This collection of primary sources and scholarly histories is a crucial companion volume to Wright'sThe Color Curtain.

A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference

Indonesian Notebook

kritik postkolonial

Sastra Indonesia modern

Keith Foulcher

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