Edition 155: Jan-Mar 2024 - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

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Decolonising memory

Removal of the Rhodes Statue 'Rhodes Must Fall' / Desmond Bowles CC @wikicommons

Mendekolonisasi memori

Removal of the Rhodes Statue 'Rhodes Must Fall' / Desmond Bowles CC @wikicommons

Review: Decolonising heteropatriarchal silencing

Indisch zwijgen, Sven Peetoom and Juliette Dominicus, Mei Oele

A documentary draws new attention to intergenerational grief and decolonial healing

Interview Muhammad Fadli: A history of the Banda Islands

Locals commemorate the Banda Island massacre / Mhd Fadli

Beyond decolonisation?

Museum of the Batavian Society for Arts and Sciences in Batavia, ca. 1930 / KITLV, inv. nr. A344.38.520

The National Museum of Indonesia is perpetuating colonial narratives and needs to actively engage with younger generations

Colonial nostalgia in an Indonesian night market

Stalls at the Tong-Tong Night Market in Malang/Grace Leksana

Despite more critical attention being paid to Indonesia’s colonial past there is also evidence of nostalgia

Working with colonial objects in the Rijksmuseum

Portraits of former Governor Generals in the Rijksmuseum Storage Depot/ Author

When an artist applies a critical lens to museum collections, colonial objects are framed in new ways

Bekerja dengan artefak kolonial di Rijksmuseum

Portraits of former Governor Generals in the Rijksmuseum Storage Depot/ Author

Dengan menggunakan lensa kritis, seniman dapat melihat artefak kolonial dengan sudut pandang yang baru saat meneliti koleksi museum

Dutch memory of slavery

Caption: National Slavery Monument, Amsterdam / Wikimedia commons

There is increasing public recognition of slavery in Dutch history but silences remain

‘Our Colonial Inheritance’ at the Wereldmuseum

Still from the film Prologue of a nation by Bibi Fadlalla in the exhibition 'Our Colonial Inheritance'/ Bibi Fadlalla reproduced with permission Amsterdam Wereweldmuseum

Some Dutch museums are taking more critical approaches to colonial history

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