Notes
1 I conducted this fieldwork for my master’s thesis in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, track Visual Ethnography at Leiden University (Zurne, 2016). I am now continuing my research on this case as part of my PhD project, “Performing Sensitive Pasts: Exploring Historical Re-nactments in Europe and Indonesia,” at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
2 Komunitas Djokjakarta 1945 can be simply translated as Community Djokjakarta 1945.
The colonial spelling is used to refer to the Special Region of Yogyakarta.3 The frequently used terms “War of Independence” and “decolonization” are increasingly being challenged. As Sukarno and Hatta proclaimed independence on 17 August 1945, the military campaigns in 1947 and 1948 by the Dutch are seen by many Indonesians as attempts to “recolonize” the sovereign state. In Indonesia, the period between 17 August 1945 and 29 December 1949 is most commonly referred to as the Revolusi Nasional Indonesia.
4 The term “police actions” has been criticized as a euphemism that misleadingly qualifies the offensives as having a limited and humanitarian character (Jansen Hendriks, 2012, pp. 403, 408).
5 All participants in this publication have been anonymized.
6 As displayed on 14 February 2021.
7 According to CEIC data (20 May 2020).