American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia : US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism, 1920-1949

Gouda, Frances; Zaalberg, Thijs Brocades

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“…10For the Indonesians as “observers” and the Republic as holding “observer status,” see Gouda and Zaalberg, American Visions , 243; Friend, Indonesian Destinies , specifically, the delegation photograph caption appearing on 40; Kahin and Barnett, “In Memoriam: Soedjatmoko,” and Kahin, “In Memoriam: L. N. Palar.”…”

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“…24McMahon, Colonialism and Cold War ; Gouda and Zaalberg, American Visions ; Wiebes and Zeeman, “United States ‘Big Stick’ Diplomacy”; and Homan, “The United States and the Netherlands East Indies.”…”

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“…54United Nations Digital Resource and Collections, Photo Collection: Photographs numbers 202003–202006, portraying the members of the Indonesian delegation upon their arrival at Lake Success in August 1947; LoC-JSM, Box 22, File 3, unpublished autobiographical manuscript by L. N. Palar with Bhagwanti Singh, “Strangers Within My Gate” (1981), 128–30, Mrázek, Sjahrir , 351–2, 363; Gardner, Shared Hopes, Separate Fears , 38–9, 52; J. D. Legge, Intellectuals and Nationalism, 130; Gouda and Zaalberg, American Visions , 209–14; and Friend, Indonesian Destinies, 39–46.…”

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The Republic at the Table, with Decolonisation on the Agenda: The United Nations Security Council and the Question of Indonesian Representation, 1946–1947

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2021

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This article examines a formative episode in the history of both the United Nations Security Council and Indonesian decolonisation. In August of 1947, Council members authorised an ad hoc delegation from the Republic of Indonesia to participate in its discussions concerning the ongoing Dutch–Indonesian conflict. Focusing on the series of developments that led to the Indonesians taking their seats at the table, this article reveals how Security Council procedures and practices could be used to facilitate the decolonisation process. The Council's involvement in the Dutch–Indonesian conflict—and, in particular, the decision to allow the Indonesians to present their case in this international arena—demonstrates that Europeans’ claims of “domestic jurisdiction” over their colonial territories remained subject to negotiation, and that non-European actors could successfully contest these claims in Council chambers.

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The Republic at the Table, with Decolonisation on the Agenda: The United Nations Security Council and the Question of Indonesian Representation, 1946–1947

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2021

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“…In the same year that the Malayan Emergency broke out, leftist troops in the Indonesian army staged a revolt in the city of Madiun, East Java, in protest against a plan to demobilize them from the Republican army. When the Republican government reacted harshly by directing the Indonesian army to kill the leaders of the movement and the Communist Party without trial, US support for the new Republic increased dramatically (Gouda, 2002: 277–300). Following the struggle there were ongoing memory wars in the 1950s and early 1960s over how Madiun should be interpreted.…”

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McGregor

2016

South East Asia Research

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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 anticommunism 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.

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“…That was undoubtedly a factor, though Frances Gouda has suggested an additional motive, that "the Prime Minister was convinced that his country's soldiers should not become embroiled in the suppression of a genuine national liberation movement". 42 Chifley's phrase "implied responsibility" indeed suggests that he believed there would be consequences to visibly linking Australia with Britain's effective repression of Indonesian nationalism. The hypothesis that Chifley's concern was explicitly about placing soldiers in a colonial conflict is further supported by the Prime Minister's response to William Macmahon Ball's mission to Indonesia.…”

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J.B. Chifley and the Indonesian Revolution, 1945–1949

Fettling

2013

Aus J of Politics History

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This article traces the role of the Prime Minister, Joseph Benedict Chifley, in Australia's response to the Dutch-Indonesian colonial conflict. It argues for Chifley's centrality to the formation of Australia's eventual policy to support Indonesian nationalist aspirations, a policy often in antithesis to the views of H.V. Evatt. This is significant because a focus on Evatt has distracted historians from ascertaining the causes of Australia's policy. Examining Chifley's attitude and role reveals that Australia's response to revolutionary Indonesia stemmed from an application to the Southeast Asian colonial question of a labourist and post-war reconstructionist ethos, an idea of sweeping reform to rectify deep economic and social grievances.

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American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia : US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism, 1920-1949

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The Republic at the Table, with Decolonisation on the Agenda: The United Nations Security Council and the Question of Indonesian Representation, 1946–1947

The Republic at the Table, with Decolonisation on the Agenda: The United Nations Security Council and the Question of Indonesian Representation, 1946–1947

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J.B. Chifley and the Indonesian Revolution, 1945–1949

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