The politics of (un)forgetting: Indonesia’s nativist decolonisation

该项目旨在调查印度尼西亚今天的政治动态，作为一场纪念或忘记暴力事件的延伸战争，包括发生在20世纪40年代印度尼西亚非殖民化期间的暴力事件。它将为道德和政治问题提供新的见解，了解过去如何对当代印度尼西亚的关键政治辩论产生重大影响。除了传统的档案外，该项目还将研究流行文化（电影、广播、小说、报纸），作为其本身的创新研究领域。该项目旨在提供关于印度尼西亚及其与澳大利亚的长期联系的丰富细致的见解，而不是追求物质利益。

The project aims to investigate the dynamics of Indonesia’s politics today as an extended battle to remember or forget violent events, including those which took place around Indonesia’s decolonisation in the 1940s. It will offer new insights into ethical and political issues of how that past has significant bearing upon key political debates in contemporary Indonesia. In addition to conventional archives, the project will examine popular culture (cinema, radio, fiction, newspaper) as an innovative research field in its own right. The project aims to deliver richly-nuanced insights about Indonesia and its longstanding connections with Australia beyond the pursuit of material interests.