Memory Network: Moving the Center/Revolutionalizing Culture

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10.2991/978-2-38476-058-9_45How to use a DOI?

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Memory network; Jakarta; Historical memory; Jokowi; Urbanization

Abstract

This paper highlights the issues of memory network by looking into President Jokowi’s recent proposal to build a new capital elsewhere. It considers a range of factors that could have led to such a decision, which include Jakarta’s socio-political and environmental crises and Indonesia’s historical memories of nation-building. It teases out memories of Javanese past ‘turmoil in the realm’ (daharuning praja) under colonial context, Sukarno’s desire for a new capital city to mark decolonization and nation-building, and subsequent presidents to fulfill the wish to create a new ‘exemplary center’. The idea of building a new capital, the paper argues, should be contextualized within the network of historical memory.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Abidin Kusno
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/29
TI  - Memory Network: Moving the Center/Revolutionalizing Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the fourth Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Arts and Humanities Stream (AHS-APRISH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 581
EP  - 589
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-058-9_45
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-058-9_45
ID  - Kusno2023
ER  -