ABOUT THIS BOOK
Revolutionary Worlds looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. With seventeen contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely differing perspectives. The authors explain how Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Eurasian civilians, fighters, farmers and officials experienced and shaped the often volatile period between 1945 and 1950. The book focuses on different ideas of independence, survival strategies, mobilization, minorities, contestation of authority and the use of force against the backdrop of Indonesian and Dutch authorities’ efforts to gain or maintain control.

Bringing together two national historiographical traditions which have long remained largely separate, Revolutionary Worlds is the result of a collaboration between the Indonesian research project Proklamasi Kemerdekaan, Revolusi dan Perang di Indonesia ('Proclamation of Independence, Revolution and War in Indonesia', Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta) and the Dutch research group of the Regional Studies project, under the umbrella of the research programme Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950.

The authors of this book – Taufik Ahmad, Galuh Ambar Sasi, Maarten van der Bent, Martijn Eickhoff, Farabi Fakih, Roel Frakking, Apriani Harahap, Anne-Lot Hoek, Sarkawi B. Husain, Julianto Ibrahim, Gerry van Klinken, Erniwati, Mawardi Umar, Anne van der Veer, Abdul Wahid, Tri Wahyuning M. Irsyam, and Muhammad Yuanda Zara – work with various universities and research institutes in Indonesia and the Netherlands.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Martijn Eickhoff is director of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and is also Endowed Professor of Archaeology and Heritage of War and Mass Violence at the University of Groningen.

Roel Frakking is a lecturer in political history in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Utrecht.

Ireen Hoogenboom is a coordinator of joint research on Indonesia at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden.

Gerry van Klinken is honorary professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Queensland (Historical and Philosophical Inquiry), the University of Amsterdam (Anthropology), and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden.

Bambang Purwanto is a professor of history in the Department of History, Faculty of Cultural Sciences at the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Abdul Wahid is head of the Department of History and lecturer at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences at the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Yulianti is lecturer in the Department of History, Faculty of Cultural Science at the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She is currently also teaching at the Center for Religions and Cross-Cultural Studies at the graduate school of the same university.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

i. introduction 1. Revolutionary Worlds: an introduction Roel Frakking and Abdul Wahid i i. revolutionary… 2. The meaning of independence for women in Yogyakarta, 1945-1946 Galuh Ambar Sasi 3. The battle for the nation and pemuda subjectivity. Contradictions in a revolutionary capital Farabi Fakih 4. Monsters and capitalists. Revolutionary posters demonize the Dutch Muhammad Yuanda Zara 5. The violence of Dutch public security. Semarang and its Central Javanese hinterland, 1945-1949 Martijn Eickhoff 6. East Java, 1949: the revolution that shaped Indonesia Gerry van Klinken and Maarten van der Bent 7. War logistics in revolutionary Central Java Julianto Ibrahim 8. State-making is war-making. Military violence and the establishment of the State of East Indonesia in 1946 Anne-Lot Hoek i i i. …worlds 9. From the parliament to the streets. The State of East Indonesia, 1946-1950 Sarkawi B. Husain 10. The harsher they act, the more fuss there’ll be. Dynamics of violence in South-Sulawesi, 1945-1950 Roel Frakking 11. Polombangkeng, South Sulawesi. The contest for authority, 1945- 1949 Taufik Ahmad 12. Association with the people must be friendly. War against the people and the political partitioning of West Java, 1948 Roel Frakking 13. Fighting over Depok. From colonial privilege to Indonesian citizenship, 1942-1949 Tri Wahyuning M. Irsyam 14. A successful transition. The Chinese in revolutionary Aceh, 1945-1949 Mawardi Umar 15. Navigating contested middle ground. Ethnic Chinese in revolutionary East Sumatra, 1945-1950 Anne van der Veer 16. Everyday life of the Chinese in revolutionary Padang, 1945-1948 Erniwati 17. Playing it safe. Survival strategies of the Indian community in East Sumatran cities, 1945-1946 Apriani Harahap Notes Abbreviations Glossary Bibliography Acknowledgements About the authors Index