Contesting state's terror and history : lessons from ALUR & PAB, 1965 communities in Batang
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2024
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2018
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eng
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application/pdf
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vii, 83 leaves : ill.
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ผลงานนี้เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล ขอสงวนไว้สำหรับเพื่อการศึกษาเท่านั้น ต้องอ้างอิงแหล่งที่มา ห้ามดัดแปลงเนื้อหา และห้ามนำไปใช้เพื่อการค้า
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Mahidol University
Bibliographic Citation
Thesis (M.A. (Human Rights and Democratisation))--Mahidol University, 2018
Suggested Citation
Prabowo, Rian Adhivira, 1990- Contesting state's terror and history : lessons from ALUR & PAB, 1965 communities in Batang. Thesis (M.A. (Human Rights and Democratisation))--Mahidol University, 2018. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/91768
Title
Contesting state's terror and history : lessons from ALUR & PAB, 1965 communities in Batang
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Abstract
This thesis focuses on the two different perspectives derived from the logic of police (the state) and the logic of politics (civil society) in the case of the 1965 issues in Indonesia. Using Jacques Ranciere's theory on "disagreement" with the collaboration of the debate between Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser over Recognition and Redistribution as a conceptual framework, it examines if the enunciated equality is conducted through the "politics of wrong" in performing recognition and redistribution towards the victims/survivors of 1965 event. While Indonesia's post-Soeharto era has enacted and promoted human rights principles in its legal system, it has, at the same time, abandoned the victims of the violent past. Instead, communism is maintained as the state's mantra of the immortal enemy with several discriminatory laws as inherited from Orde Baru remained active. On the other hand, the existing legal system is still not adequate in providing means for the victims to demand their rights: for their past to be acknowledged and for their harms to be compensated. In Batang as the main locus of this research, two communities of 1965, ALUR (Aktivitas Layanan Untuk Rakyat) and PAB (Paguyuban Anak Bangsa), are conducting their own grass-root reconciliation and initiating self-sufficient communities to elevate victims' economical condition. These efforts resemble the politics as argued by Ranciere, to make the voices from the uncounted part matters. However, this study also finds that beside their remarkable achievements, there are several limitations faced by the two communities in tackling the issues of 1965. The result of this thesis is twofold: on the one hand, Batang's experience through ALUR and PAB shows that the "politics" against the police logic of distribution is remained possible to be performed. On the other hand, Batang experience also indicates a ticking bomb of the case of 1965: that even under such strong and solid grassroots networking, it still cannot evade the progress of aging and the whisper of death. In conclusion, this thesis argues that even though the struggle of "politics" is vital and urgent, yet to answer the victims' call for justice, the state's involvement is still highly needed.
Description
Human Rights and Democratisation (Mahidol University 2018)
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Degree Level
Master's degree
Degree Department
Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies
Degree Discipline
Human Rights and Democratisation
Degree Grantor(s)
Mahidol University