Silences and Memories of the Indonesian Revolution and Dutch Colonialism

Abstract

This essay considers silences as well as memories of the Indonesian Revolution and Dutch colonialism more broadly. It takes as a starting point a Dutch-Indonesian volume based on an oral history approach produced as part of the large research project ‘Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950.’ This work is discussed alongside broader issues of remembrance and forgetting in relation to the Revolution and colonialism in both countries and the politics of memory. The author also introduces her own work in relation to memories of colonialism and a decolonial approach to memory work.