| ID | 146535 |
| Title Proper | Cold War scripts |
| Other Title Information | comparing remembrance of the Malayan emergency and the 1965 violence in Indonesia |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | McGregor, Katharine |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper contributes to a growing field of literature on Cold War culture by comparing struggles over memory in Indonesia and Malaysia of anti-communist repressions. It demonstrates the enduring legacies of the Cold War in these neighbouring countries where the war overlapped directly with experiences of colonization and decolonization. I show how and why anti-communism in both countries became a core foundation of both Malaysian and Indonesian nationalism and related religious identification and how this largely explains successive governments’ attempts to memorialize and defend these repressions. I argue that recent attempts by both survivors of the repression and younger Indonesians and Malaysians to reexamine the history of the political left or experiences of repression constitute important efforts to rethink the postcolonial predicaments of both countries in different ways. |
| `In' analytical Note | South East Asia Research Vol. 24, No.2; Jun 2016: p.242-260 |
| Journal Source | South East Asia Research 2016-06 24, 2 |
| Key Words | Memory ; Emergency ; Anti-communism ; Indonesian Communist Party ; Malayan Communist Party ; 1965 Violence |