Indonesian Left in the Twentieth Century

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Beyond the Rise and Fall of a Party

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvLin Hongxuan,Klaas Stutje,Rianne Subijanto

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This edited volume highlights the work of a new generation of scholars who have reignited the study of the Indonesian left, and the PKI in particular, across continents and disciplines. It reinterprets the Indonesian left and its associated organisations not simply as a local and national phenomenon but as a force of global relevance. Historiographically, the history of the left has always been constructed in conversation and contestation with, on the one hand, the colonial and postcolonial state and, on the other, the communist epicentres of Moscow and Beijing. Moving beyond party-centered narratives, the chapters in this volume demonstrate how diverse global networks and ideologies were translated and transformed within very local and situationally-specific environments. In doing so, they foreground the contributions of people and organizations often relegated to the margins of the PKI, illuminating the Indonesian left as a dynamic site of transnational and local interaction.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-15
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal Connections: Routes and Roots
Antal sidor310
FörlagLeiden University Press
ISBN9789087284398

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Lin Hongxuan is an assistant professor with the department of Southeast Asian studies, National University of Singapore. His first monograph, Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Klaas Stutje is senior researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. He moves between the fields of cultural history, with a focus on colonial museum collections and issues of restitution, and Indonesian political history of anticolonial nationalism, communism and anarchism.Rianne Subijanto is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Baruch College, The City University of New York. She is the author of Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2025).

Table of Contents1. Introduction: Restaging PKI within the broader Indonesian left - Lin Hongxuan, Klaas Stutje, and Rianne Subijanto2. Saminism and the spectre of anarchism in the Netherlands East Indies, 1906–1926 - Klaas Stutje3. Women in Motion: How Perempoean Kromo Transformed the Red Movement in 1920s - Rianne Subijanto4. Merantau in Solitude: Tan Malaka's Exile in China, 1927–1936 - Kankan Xie5. Indonesian Marxism outside the PKI: The Political Evolution of Roestam Effendi - Lin Hongxuan6. Socialist Culture and Transnational Anti-Imperialist Solidarity: Lekra Activism in the Afro-Asian Writers' Movement - Wildan Sena Utama7. Explaining the PKI's Dark Defeat of 1965-66 - John Roosa8. Dutch views of the rise and destruction of the PKI - Alex de Jong9. Researching the history of Gerwani under New Order restrictions - Saskia E. Wieringa10. Archival Custody and Hidden Narratives: Problems of Activating the Indonesian Left Archives in the Netherlands - Rika TheoAbout the ContributorsIndex