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2005_Post-Authoritarian Indonesia_[with Vedi Hadiz]-c

Heryanto, Ariel and Hadiz, Vedi R. (2005) “Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Comparative Southeast Asian Perspective”, Critical Asian Studies, Volume 37 (2): 251-275.

post-authoritarian, Southeast Asia, Thailand, The Philippines

It is Southeast Asia’s middle-class intelligentsia that pose a thorny situation for some Southeast Asianists outside Southeast Asia. They cannot be totally silenced and made mere objects of analysis, for they are neither purely ‘one of us’ (Southeast Asianists in Western centers of Southeast Asian studies) and subjected to the pressure of Western academic ethics, traditions, and industry, nor are they completely separable and distinguishable from ‘us.’

Heryanto, Ariel (2002) “Can There be Southeast Asians in Southeast Asian Studies?”, Moussons, 5: 3-30.

keywords: agency, difference, mother tongue, Moussons, national, orientalism, positions, representation, Southeast Asians, Southeast Asian Studies

Click 2001_The Industrialization of the Media in Democratizing Indonesia_[with Stanley Adi]-c

This chapter discusses why for a long time the idea of journalists as industrial employees has been denied or misrecognized by many and often opposing camps; and why such recognition has now become practically unavoidable. It also briefly examines a similar and related phenomenon with reference to other urban sections of the middle-class intelligentsia in today’s turbulent Indonesia.

Heryanto, Ariel and Adi, Stanley Y. (2001) “Industrialization of the Media in Democratizing Indonesia”, Contemporary Southeast Asia, 23(2/August): 327-355.

keywords: Contemporary Southeast Asia, democratization, Indonesia, industrialization, internet, Jakarta-Jakarta literacy, media, post-colonial, Tempo

2000_Oct-2_SEAS BULLETIN Asians Studying Asians-c

“What is Asian Studies anyway?” Is it an intellectual exercise that finds its definition primarily in its devotion to the specific object of study, rather than its inclinations towards particular set of approaches, methodologies, or strategies of learning that distinguish it from other and more conventional academic disciplines?”

“Who are Asians, or better who qualify as Asians, on what basis, for how long, and where? . . . How long a period of absence [from Asia] would disqualify her/him? Can s/he re-claim her/his eligibility by repatriation, and for how long does her/his return have last before such requalification can take effect?”

Heryanto, Ariel (2000) “Asians Studying Asians”, SEAS Bulletin, 2 (Oct): 4-7.

keywords: Asianness, Cold War, colonial, history, intelligentsia, positions, SEAS Bulletin social space, subjecthood

The New Order was only one dominant author of the phantasmal narrative. The scars of the victims of the anti-Communist witchhunts and of the past leftist and populist politics are still there in the everyday lives of the diverse population. The authorial New Order is dead, but the long-haunting questions and memories of the 1965 violence live on.

Heryanto, Ariel (1999) “Where Communism Never Dies”, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2 (2): 147-177.
https://doi.org/10.1177/136787799900200201

keywords: Communism, hyperobedience, New Order, popular culture, postcolonial, simulacra, state violence

1997_Vol12-No1_SOJOURN Silence in Indonesian Literature-c

Heryanto, Ariel (1997) “Silence in Indonesian Literary Discourse: The Case of the Indonesian Chinese”, Sojourn, 12 (1): 26-45.

keywords: absence, assimilation, Chinese, ethnic tension, fiction, Indonesia, literature, pembauran, Sojourn

In New Order Indonesia, as in many other (but not exclusively) postcolonial societies, power presents itself in excessive violence and naked brutality. No Indonesian needs any erudite philosophy or cultural criticism, French or otherwise, to tell them that power is everywhere, or how carceral their schools, offices, and factories can be.

Heryanto, Ariel (1995) “What Does Postmodernism Do in Contemporary Indonesia?”. Sojourn, 10 (1/ April): 33-44.

keywords: culture, deconstruction, excessive violence, Indonesia, middle class, orientalism, politics, postmodernism, Sojourn

Development was not only unknown and unspoken of in the pre-colonial communities of what is now Indonesia. It was simply unthinkable. So was the idea of ‘language.’ In fact, the introduction of the two concepts and the practices to which they refer were inseparable. Once these communities constituted a nation, the work of ‘Developing the nation’ has been persistently accompanied by the task of ‘Developing the national language’.

Heryanto, Ariel (1990) “The Making of Language: Developmentalism in Indonesia”, Prisma; The Indonesian Indicator, 50: 40-53.

keywords: bahasa, developmentalism, Indonesia, Javanese, language, Malay, Prisma, vernacular

1988_Development of ‘Development’-c

Heryanto, Ariel (1988) “The Development of ‘Development’“, translation by Nancy Lutz, Indonesia, 46 (October): 1-24.

keywords: development, developmentalism, empowerment, Indonesia, industrialisation, language, modernization, nation-building

1999_Review of Imagining Indonesia-c

Heryanto, Ariel (1999) review of Imagining Indonesia; Cultural Politics and Political Culture, by Jim Schiller and Barbara Martin-Schiller, in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 30 (1): 80.

keywords: book review, culture, Indonesia, politics