Culture, Power and Identity the Case of Ang Hien Hoo, Malang

This paper discusses the intricate relations between culture and identity in a web of larger power structures of politics and the market by looking at the ways in which the Indonesian Chinese attach themselves to a local performing arts tradition. The paper focuses on the history of the wayang orang amateur club called Ang Hien Hoo in Malang, East Java, which emerged from a Chinese diaspora burial association, to attract national limelight in the 1950s and 1960s. In this paper, I see this amateur club as a site, not only for cultural assimilation, but also as a meeting space for the diverse migrant Chinese population residing at a host country. The space is used to negotiate their position as citizens responsible to promote and to become patrons of local traditional performing arts. The paper examines how this amateur club was swept by the Cold War politics and national political turmoil of 1965, and how it fought to survive under the pressures of the global capitalist era. What emerges from the findings is the contradictory fact that the identification of the Chinese with the Javanese traditional performing arts is affirmed precisely as it is marked by Chineseness. Thus, despite the cultural blending, the Chinese Indonesian\u27s patronage of local traditional art continuously reproduces the double bind of making home in the culture not seen as their own

Keragaman Sastra dan Keindonesiaan sebuah Refleksi

Kesusasteraan Indonesia berakar dan tumbuh dari keragaman, sejak masa prakolonial sampai saat ini. Berbagai pengaruh lintas budaya, keragaman bahasa, aliran dan orientasi budaya mewarnai kesusasteraan yang berkembang di Indonesia. Dalam keragaman itu keindonesiaan terus menerus didialogkan dan dibangun. Meskipun demikian keragaman itu tidak bisa tidak mengandungi relasi kuasa yang tidak seimbang. Kesusasteraan dalam bahasa Indonesia yang ditulis oleh masyarakat di wilayah Indonesia Timur kurang terekam dalam sejarah kesusasteraan, kesusasteraan daerah kurang mendapat ruang untuk mendapat perhatian dan dukungan. Dengan mengoptimalkan akses terhadap kesusasteraan yang ditulis dalam bahasa Indonesia maupun daerah, kita bukan saja membangun kesusasteraan yang lebih mendunia, melainkan juga membangun keindonesiaan yang lebih inklusif

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