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History in Uniform - Military Ideology and the Construction of Indonesia's Past (Paperback)
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History in Uniform - Military Ideology and the Construction of Indonesia's Past (Paperback)
Series: ASAA Southeast Asia Publications
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"A thoughtful, stimulating piece of scholarship which significantly
deepens our knowledge of Indonesia's New Order." --R. E. Elson,
University of Queensland Under the New Order regime (1967-1998),
the Indonesian military sought to monopolize the production of
official history and control its contents. The goal was to validate
the political role of the armed forces, condemn communism, and
promote military values. In this detailed examination of the
Indonesian military's image-making efforts, Katherine E. McGregor
explores the formulation of nationalist history under Suharto, and
shows how this effort affected the Indonesian people. The study
highlights the role of the Armed Forces History Centre and its
chief historian, Nugroho Notosusanto, in promoting controversial
images of the military as a self-sacrificing people's force
guarding the spirit of independence and protecting the official
national philosophy, the Pancasila. The extraordinary attention
paid to image-making calls into question views of the military as
an all-powerful institution. Based on interviews, museum records,
guidebooks, military manuals, films, textbooks, historical
re-enactments, and commemorative volumes, History in Uniform offers
fresh insights into the significance of history to Indonesia's
politicized military and to this relatively new nation.For sale in
Asia, Australia, and New Zealand by NUS Press (Singapore)
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