Panggah Ardiyansyah
Talking Indonesia
Panggah Ardiyansyah: 'Kramat' and the Politics of Indonesian History
- Published
- April 10, 2026
- Duration
- 42:16
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 2, 2026
Discusses If you studied Indonesian history in school in the 1990s, you learned to divide the archipelago's pa…
Summary
If you studied Indonesian history in school in the 1990s, you learned to divide the archipelago's past into neat chapters: Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms, then Islamic sultanates, with a brief “transitional period” somewhere in between. Colonial archaeologists created these categories in the nineteenth century, and they've structured Indonesian historiography ev…
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If you studied Indonesian history in school in the 1990s, you learned to divide the archipelago's past into neat chapters: Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms, then Islamic sultanates, with a brief “transitional period” somewhere in between. Colonial archaeologists created these categories in the nineteenth century, and they've structured Indonesian historiography ever since — shaping not just how we study ancient sites, but what counts as history in the first place and what we archive and remember for the