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Remembering 1965: trauma, ideology, and the ethics of literary representation in Indonesia Rizki Anugrah Putri Rahayu
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 3 (2026): Memory, violence, and post-authoritarian literary politics in Indonesia
Publisher : CV Narasi Khatulistiwa Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i3.1042

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Background: Indonesia’s 1965–66 violence remains a contested memory field in which literary narratives confront trauma, ideological stigma, and official or familial silence through forms that resist historical closure. Objective: This study examines how Indonesian literary texts remember 1965 through fractured narration and asks how narrative rupture mediates trauma, ideology, and the ethics of representation. Method: Using qualitative interpretive literary analysis, this study analyzes 70 coded narrative units from seven primary literary works, supported by secondary scholarship and publicly verifiable contextual materials. Results: Fractured chronology, testimonial silence, unstable focalization, intergenerational displacement, spectral return, and archival gaps function as formal mechanisms for narrating damaged historical transmission. Ideological memory appears through anti-communist stigma, selective erasure, counter-memory, social surveillance, exile, and archival contestation, showing that remembrance is shaped by social legitimacy as much as by personal recollection. Ethical representation is organized through mediated testimony, narrative restraint, survivor dignity, and acknowledged representational limits, preventing trauma from becoming spectacle or totalizing recovery. Implication: This study demonstrates that literary form is a crucial site where Indonesia’s unresolved political violence is negotiated amid post-authoritarian memory debates today. Novelty: This study offers an integrated formal-ethical model that links fractured narrative, ideological memory, and representational responsibility in Indonesian 1965 literature.
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