Ariel Heryanto

There is very little Asian about the rhetoric of Asian values/ Eastern Personality whose genealogy resides in the Western colonial construction of knowledge.

Heryanto, Ariel (1999) “Hansonism The Asian Way”, in Sir Paul Reeves (ed.), Asia-Pacific Economic Integration and Cultural Identity, Auckland: New Zealand Asia Institute, pp. 29-34.

keywords: Asianisation, colonial, cultural, Hanson, identity, orientalism, sovereignty, state

The New Order regime cannot possibly want the Assimilation Programme that it co-sponsors to attain its declared aims. Achieving these aims must instead be forever deferred. To dissolve Chinese identities in an effective programme of “assimilation” means to give up the division of labour by race, upon which the status quo depends so much.

Heryanto, Ariel (1998) “Ethnic Identities and Erasure; Chinese Indonesians in Public Culture” in Southeast Asian Identities; Culture and the Politics of Representation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, Joel S. Kahn (ed.), Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp. 95-114.

keywords: Chinese, class, erasure, ethnicity, identity, Indonesian, othering, public culture

1997 Towards the Final Countdown-c

Heryanto, Ariel (1997) “INDONESIA; Towards the Final Countdown?” in Southeast Asian Affairs 1997, Daljit Singh (ed.), Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp. 107-126.

keywords: hegemony, ICMI, Megawati Sukarnoputri, New Order, opposition, PDI, PRD

The New Order regime achieved a hegemonic status on the basis of the extra-ordinary political violence in 1965– 6, and the continued reproduction of widespread fear in its protracted aftermath. That massive violence and subsequent terrorism provided the fundamental basis for sustained ‘political stability’ and successful economic development. Ironically, both successes increasingly undermined their own basis. A new generation of middle classes and industrial workers has emerged.

Heryanto, Ariel (1996) “Indonesian Middle-class Opposition in the 1990s”, in Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia, Garry Rodan (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, pp. 241-271.

keywords: bans, labour, legitimacy, media, middle class, New Order, opposition, scandal

The significance of Pembangunan is discernible not only in terms of its diachronic development, but also in terms of its synchronic connection with other Indonesian key words. They are Pancasila and perkembangan.

Heryanto, Ariel (1995) “Pembangunan”, in Language of Development and Development of Language, Cahpter 2, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, pp. 8-26.

keywords: developmentalism, Indonesia, key word, language, nation, New Order, Pembangunan

1990_State Ideology and Civil Discourse-c

Heryanto, Ariel (1990) “State Ideology and Civil Discourse”, in A. Budiman (ed.) State
and Civil Society in Indonesia, Clayton (Victoria): Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, pp. 289-300.

keywords: civil, discourse, ideology, legitimacy, New Order, opposition, state, Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX

2006_Then There Were Languages-c

Heryanto, Ariel (2006) “Then There were Languages: Bahasa Indonesia was One Among Many” in Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages, Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook (eds), Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, pp.42-61.

keywords: bahasa, commodification, developmentalism, industrialization, language, modern, nation, standardization, traditional, vernacular

 

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 (2007) ”Can There Be Southeast Asians in Southeast Asian Studies?”, in L.J. Sears (ed.) Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects, Seattle: University of Washington Press, pp. 75-108.

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