Hari Sejarah Nasional (National History Day) Rabu, 29 February 2012 di The British International School Jakarta. Key note speech oleh Dr. Peter Carey, penulis buku ‘Kuasa Ramalan: Pangeran Diponegoro dan Akhir tatanan Lama di Jawa, 1785-1855.’ Terbit Maret 2012 Born of parents who had made their lives in Asia, the Far East has always been a part of my life. My first seven years (1948-55) were spent in Burma and these early years marked me. In my very traditional British boarding school – Winchester - I retained a fascination for SE Asia. But studying Southeast Asian history for A level was sadly not an option. It was the same at Oxford. Even though my Oxford tutors quickened my love of history through insisting that I use primary sources, it was not until I graduated in 1969 that I was able to pursue my Asian interests. … … Here in Indonesia, Batara Hutagalung (Surabaya, 1944- ), an historian from North Sumatra who has written numerous books on colonial history (including the British military campaign in Surabaya in November 1945 which left thousands dead), also won a significant victory for the cause of justice. His persistence in securing evidence regarding the Rawagede massacre of 9 December 1947 during the Indonesian War of Independence against the Dutch (1945-49) won a ruling from a Dutch court on 14 September 2011. The court ordered that €20.000 compensation be paid by the Dutch Government to each of the eight remaining widows of the 431 young men massacred by Dutch troops in a village between Karawang and Bekasi. Long immortalised in Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar’s 1948 poem ‘Karawang-Bekasi’ whose opening lines read: ‘We who lie sprawled between Karawang and Bekasi cannot cry ‘Freedom’ or raise our weapons any more!’ Batara Hutagalung’s research symbolically raised the bodies of those massacred young men and brought them to the court room, thus ensuring their eventual valediction. Selengkapnya: http://batarahutagalung.blogspot.com/2012/03/craft-of-historian-revolution-reaction.html
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