History in Uniform by Katharine Mcgregor

History in Uniform by Katharine Mcgregor

"A thoughtful, stimulating piece of scholarship which significantly deepens our knowledge of Indonesia's New Order." --R. E. Elson, University of Queensland

Under the New Order regime (1967-1998), the Indonesian military sought to monopolize the production of official history and control its contents. The goal was to validate the political role of the armed forces, condemn communism, and promote military values.

In this detailed examination of the Indonesian military's image-making efforts, Katherine E. McGregor explores the formulation of nationalist history under Suharto, and shows how this effort affected the Indonesian people. The study highlights the role of the Armed Forces History Centre and its chief historian, Nugroho Notosusanto, in promoting controversial images of the military as a self-sacrificing people's force guarding the spirit of independence and protecting the official national philosophy, the Pancasila. The extraordinary attention paid to image-making calls into question views of the military as an all-powerful institution.

Based on interviews, museum records, guidebooks, military manuals, films, textbooks, historical re-enactments, and commemorative volumes, History in Uniform offers fresh insights into the significance of history to Indonesia's politicized military and to this relatively new nation.For sale in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand by NUS Press (Singapore)

Katharine McGregor is Associate Professor in Southeast Asian History and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Jess Melvin is Rice Faculty Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies and Post-Doctoral Associate in Genocide Studies at Yale University, USA. Annie Pohlman is Lecturer in Indonesian at the University of Queensland, Australia.

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ISBN 13	9780824831530
ISBN 10	0824831535
Titel	History in Uniform
Autor	Katharine Mcgregor
Serie	Asaa Southeast Asia Publications
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Hawai'i Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2007-03-30
Seitenanzahl	228
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.