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Historical Study and Historians in Indonesia Today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Sartono Kartodirdjo
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It should be plainly stated that historical study and writing in Indonesia have so far played a very slight part in academic work, “but there is reason to expect that this situation will change in the years to come. Indonesia entered the postwar period with a heritage consisting mostly of Dutch colonial historiography. Deeply affected by the national revolution in the cultural scene, particularly in the field of history, a reconstruction and rewriting of Indonesian history was urgently felt. Many conceptions had tobe reviewed and many facts reinterpreted. A growing acceptance of this new approach has come to focus historical study on old regional or local sources on the one hand and the formulation of the idea of the history of indonesia as a national history on the other.

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Journal of Southeast Asian History , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 1963 , pp. 22 - 30
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1963

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References

1. For further information about the Seminar consult its proceedings published by Gadjah Mada University, entitled: “Seminar Sedjarah”, Jogjarkarta, 1958; two vols. Additional volumes projected.

2. Address: Lembaga Sedjarah dan Antropologi, Ministry of Education and Culture, djalan Tjilatjap 4, Djakarta.

3. Address: Lembaga Ilmiah Indonesia untuk penjelidikan Sedjarah, djalan Gresik 27, Djakarta.

4. Address: Ikatan Peminat Sedjarah Nasional, Pegangsaan Timur 36, Djakarta.

5. Address: Lembaga Penulisan Sedjarah Nasional, djalan Diponegoro 10, Djakarta. Its library is located in Kaliurang, a hilltown near Jogjakarta.

6. Address: Pusat Sedjarah Militer, djalan Belitung 6, Bandung. Branches of this institute have been established throughout Indonesia, Currently preparing an Indonesian Military History, to be published in 1964.

7. For information about documents in the National Archives consult MrChijs, J.A. van der: Invertaris van s Lands Archief te Batavia, (1602–1816), Landsdrukkerij, Batavia, 1652.Google Scholar

8. For description of manuscripts see Dr.Ph.S. van Ronkel: Catalogus Maleische Kandschriften in net Museum van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en en Wetenschappen. Verhandelingen No. LVII, 1909, Batavia - Den Haag.

9. Other local manuscript collections to be referred to are: a) the Kirtya Liefrinck-van der Tuuk in Den Passar, Bali; b) the Matthes Foundation in Makassar; c) the Sono Budojo in Jogjakarta; d) the Institute for Language and Culture in Djakarta. A considerable amount of manuscripts are still in private hands.