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Of Self and Injustice:

Autobiography and Repression in Modern Indonesia

C. W. Watson
 
 
Since the downfall of Soeharto in 1998, many Indonesians marginalized the so-called New Order regime have produced autobiographical writings. This book presents and evaluated the autobiographies of two ex-political prisoners who describe themselves as Muslim communists, two writers of the left, and two Muslim opponents of Soeharto. There are also accounts of a group of young people involved in social welfare action, the other a group of dedicated young Muslims.

The author discusses the contents of the accounts as well as their implicit tone, inviting general as well as specialist readers to reflect on the memories and experiences of significant participant-observers in order to understand a recent period in Indonesian history.


 
C. W. WATSON teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK. He has been working in the field of Indonesian studies since 1970 and over the years has written about the history, politics and modern literature of Indonesia.


 


 

publication year: 2007
238 pages
ISBN: 978 9971693695   Paperback  
US$26.00 |  S$36.00
Co-published with KITLV Press (The Netherlands)
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