Keepers of the Grave: Ritual Guides, Ghosts, and Hidden Narratives in Indonesian History

Leong, Kar-Yen

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“…Families describe the plaque as an important means of educating a new generation of Timorese about the consequences of the war ( konsequensia funu ) and ‘dignifying’ the dead whose remains still lay below. The naming of the dead might be also understood as a powerful reversal of the violence that had ‘shattered the intimate relationship between a body and name’ (Rojas-Perez, 2017: 108), allowing for the restoration of that relationship, for the disappeared body to reappear even though the bodies themselves have not been retrieved (see Auchter, 2014: 70; Leong, 2022: 303–304). The memorial site was inaugurated in 2018 through a ceremony that involved the calling of restless spirits to the site and the delivery of ritual prayers ( hamulak ).…”

Section: Gathering-in and Reburying The Dead: Re-remembering Communitiesmentioning

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“…Leong (2023) connects the resurgence of ghosts in Southeast Asia to the emergence of ‘monumental nation-building projects, where states have sought to mold unified societies out of disparate and plural communities’ (p. 324). To the extent that these projects have marginalised the histories and memories of some communities, they have left behind ‘fragments’ (Leong, 2023: 325; see also Leong, 2022). Experiences of ghosts and of haunting is one way in which these fragments manifest.…”

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The dead as memory workers

Kent

2024

Memory Studies

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This article examines how Timor-Leste’s dead are memory workers. Drawing on ethnographic research, it probes how the restless spirits of those who died during the Indonesian occupation (1975–1999) are activating practices of searching for and recovering their bodies among their families and communities that allow them to be ‘gathered in’ and cared for in new geographic and socio-political spaces. These practices enable the re-membering of communities of the living and the dead in the aftermath of the profoundly dismembering effects of the occupation while also allowing some of the silences of nation-and-state-building projects to be made partially present and negotiated. I suggest that while the dead are not memory activists in the sense that they push for a specific social or political agenda, they are memory workers in the way they work on the living, opening up reparative and political possibilities. The work of the dead troubles the distinctions between the active and the passive, the subject and object, and the human and the more-than-human that lie at the heart of dominant understandings of memory-work and memory activism, inviting new ways of thinking about agency and the unexpected avenues through which social and political change can sometimes take place.

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Section: Gathering-in and Reburying The Dead: Re-remembering Communitiesmentioning

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The dead as memory workers

Kent

2024

Memory Studies

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“…Masyarakat Jawa senantiasa mempercayai tokoh di masyarakat yang memahami ilmu mistis, entah sebagai penjaga suatu tempat mistis atau sebagai orang yang mampu berkomunikasi dengan makhluk gaib. (Leong, 2021). Tokoh yang memahami ilmu mistis dituliskan sebagai mereka yang membantu menyelesaikan konflik mistis seperti mengatasi kesurupan, mengusir makhluk gaib, memberikan ramuan dan mantra agar terhindar dari makhluk gaib, dan tokoh yang bisa melihat wujud makhluk gaib yang tidak kasat mata.…”

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Pola Intrinsik dan Subgenre Horor dalam Utas Horror Twitter Indonesia Periode 2019—2022

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2023

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Utas KKN di Desa Penari menjadi penanda popularitas utas horor Indonesia pada media sosial. Sejak utas tersebut muncul di tahun 2019, hingga saat ini produksi utas horor terus berlangsung di media sosial Twitter. Penelitian dilakukan dengan tujuan 1) mendeskripsikan pola nilai intrinsik dan 2) mendeskripsikan subgenre horor utas horor Indonesia yang dipublikasi pada media sosial Twitter periode 2019-2022. Objek penelitian adalah utas horor Indonesia. Penelitian dilakukan dengan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif. Sumber data berasal dari utas horor yang terpublikasi pada media soial Twitter selama tiga tahun, yakni sejumlah 185 utas. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat pola intrinsik pada utas horor selama tiga tahun terakhir, dengan persamaan tema, alur, tokoh dan penokohan, latar, sudut pandang, dan nilai moral, Pola tema utas horor adalah tema pesugihan dan santet. Pola alur adalah alur maju. Pola tokoh dan penokohan adalah orang berumur yang memahami ilmu magis. Pola latar yakni kengerian di malam hari, dengan persamaan latar tempat pada tempat yang ditinggalkan, serta latar belakang sosial berupa kebutuhan pemenuhan kesejahteraan hidup. Sudut pandang yang selalu digunakan adalah sudut pandang orang pertama sebagai pelaku utama pada cerita. Nilai moral yang senantiasa muncul pada utas horor tiga tahun terakhir adalah kebergantungan manusia terhadap alam. Pola subgenre horor yang dominan dalam utas horor tiga tahun terakhir adalah subgenre horor occult atau okultis. Subgenre horor ini adalah subgenre horor yang bertemakan pengusiran setan.

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The Vernacular of Disaster: The Rhetoric and Memory of Volcanic Eruption at Museum Gunung Merapi, Indonesia

Murti

2023

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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This study analyzes the vernacular rhetoric of disaster in a volcanic eruption museum. Using the Mount Merapi Museum (Museum Gunung Merapi or MGM) in Indonesia, the research investigates how the site has become a public memorial for volcanic disasters through archival work, textual analysis, and in-the-field methods. The findings show that MGM materializes a “vernacular rhetoric of disaster” through the socio-cultural aspect. It emphasizes the juxtaposition of mythological stories, scientific descriptions, and everyday discourses produced by the disasters, centering on the philosophy of eling or the act of remembering in Javanese society. Finally, the paper offers observational frameworks to understand the museum. Those are the situational setting of the museum's location culturally and socially, the building design, and the connection of everyday life to the surrounding contexts. This framework is helpful to be applied in another setting.

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Keepers of the Grave: Ritual Guides, Ghosts, and Hidden Narratives in Indonesian History

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

The dead as memory workers

The dead as memory workers

Pola Intrinsik dan Subgenre Horor dalam Utas Horror Twitter Indonesia Periode 2019—2022

The Vernacular of Disaster: The Rhetoric and Memory of Volcanic Eruption at Museum Gunung Merapi, Indonesia

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