Lembaran Sejarah
Lembaran Sejarah is a bilingual academic and peer-reviewed journal on Indonesian and regional history of Southeast Asia. It is part of a long tradition of journal publication of the Department of History at Universitas Gadjah Mada from the 1960s. The journal embraces articles on Indonesian history and historiography and comparative studies that places Indonesian history within local, regional and global contexts. We welcome researchers from any background fields to submit their research articles, book and film reviews in accordance with the journal focus and scope in English and Indonesian. Currently, Lembaran Sejarah accredited in Sinta 4 of Arjuna (Indonesian Indexing Journal).
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<![CDATA[A Vast Expansion, Yet a Sorry Infrastructure: A Paradox of the Decolonization of Indonesian Education, c. 1950s ]]>
<![CDATA[Agus Suwignyo]]>
<![CDATA[ Lembaran Sejarah Vol 17, No 1 (2021): Special Edition: Indonesian Knowledge Decolonization ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lembaran-sejarah.69968
<![CDATA[The multitude of infrastructural problems in the Indonesian educational sector which had to be dealt with during the 1950s was counterpointed by the sector’s massive expansion. The aim of this paper is to explore this paradox in the framework of Indonesian decolonization. The government policy was to greatly expand education at all levels because it believed education was a gateway to “fulfilling independence (mengisi kemerdekaan)”. This paper argues that this expansion was a strategy of decolonization by which the education legacy of the colonial past was to be delegitimized. However, severe budgetary limitations, and a lack of infrastruture and facilities forced the government to continue its dependence on the inherited colonial education facilities and on foreign aid, hence made the strategy of decolonization unrealized in this process of expansion.]]>
<![CDATA[The Dilemma of Knowledge Transfer in Early Independent Indonesia ]]>
<![CDATA[J. Thomas Lindblad]]>
<![CDATA[ Lembaran Sejarah Vol 17, No 1 (2021): Special Edition: Indonesian Knowledge Decolonization ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lembaran-sejarah.69969
<![CDATA[This article addresses the dilemma of knowledge transfer at the time of decolonization and early independence in Indonesian history. There was an urgently felt need to replace Dutch knowledge as far as possible with knowledge held by Indonesians or imported from foreign countries other than the Netherlands. Concurrently, from the time of Indonesia’s independence there was also a necessity to retain or gain access to practical knowledge required for economic development The article argues that this dilemma was resolved by a mix of policies geared towards different levels of sophistication of the knowledge involved. The article contains a brief theoretical treatment of this dilemma, followed by a global overview of policies implemented. A separate case study on the key banking sector serves to demonstrate the possibilities and constraints in effectuating a transfer of knowledge soon after independence.]]>
<![CDATA[Decolonization of Petroleum Education and Training in the Indonesian Oil Industry, 1950-1968 ]]>
<![CDATA[Farabi Fakih]]>
<![CDATA[ Lembaran Sejarah Vol 17, No 1 (2021): Special Edition: Indonesian Knowledge Decolonization ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lembaran-sejarah.69970
<![CDATA[The article explores the decolonization of education within the Indonesian petroleum industry. The Netherlands Indies had one of the largest petroleum industries in the world with many major petroleum players involved. Despite this there was a lack of investment in training and schooling of engineers and workers in the Netherlands Indies. The article showed that the development of training and tertiary education in the 1950s was conducted by both the major oil companies and Indonesian government which invested in creating vocational training schools and university departments to meet industry needs. This development allowed for the creation of a government-run national education and research institute based in Java. The article shows that the role of the oil companies was still indispensable for the decolonization gap before the development of state-owned education institutes and the inclusion of Indonesian participation in the industry during the 1950s and 1960s. The active participation of the foreign oil industry in the Indonesianization of the industry was part of its ‘exceptionalism’ and the specific role oil played in the Indonesian economy.]]>
<![CDATA[Kolaborasi dan Intervensi: Pengembangan dan Operasional Maskapai Penerbangan Komersial Hindia Belanda, 1928–1940-an ]]>
<![CDATA[Dwi Adi Wicaksono]]>;
<![CDATA[Abdul Wahid]]>
<![CDATA[ Lembaran Sejarah Vol 17, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lembaran-sejarah.61810
<![CDATA[Civil aviation in the Dutch East Indies developed after the presence of Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KNILM) as the only commercial airline. Even though KNILM was founded and owned entirely by the private sector and operated commercially, this company received subsidies and various other support from the colonial government. This raises the question of how the two parties manage this airline?This article uses a political and business approach to explain these issues as well as sources in the form of official printed documents, newspapers and others.The author's research shows that the formation and management of the KNILM company was a combination of private interests and colonial government politics. This cooperation was carried out to overcome the shortcomings of each party that requires civil aviation to strengthen their agenda. The private sector has the advantage of being able to utilize aviation technology directly with better economic value but required an injection of funds for its operations. On the other hand, the colonial government did not want to invest heavily in aviation technology but needed it, so it provided subsidies and other support to KNILM.]]>
<![CDATA[Catatan Awal Kongsi Tionghoa di Tanjungpinang Awal Abad ke-20 ]]>
<![CDATA[Zulfa Saumia]]>
<![CDATA[ Lembaran Sejarah Vol 17, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lembaran-sejarah.68597
<![CDATA[This article aims to reveal the competition, power struggles and influence of the Chinese kongsi in the Tanjungpinang Chinese community in the 20th century. The research method used is the historical method through literature and archive studies by tracing sources in the form of books, government archives, magazines, and newspapers. The results of this study indicate that in Tanjungpinang there were various kongsis such as Tjaap Seng (arak), Eng Bie (tobacco) and Nan Yang (tobacco), Ngee Heng, Quan Teck Hoe, and Gagak Putih. Each kongsis in Tanjungpinang consists of various groups ranging from traders and coolies and has a base all the way to the countryside. Each of them has the same goal, namely control over territory and the economy. To achieve this goal, it is important to get help from local authorities which ends in conflicts like the one between Ngee Heng's kongsi and Quan Teck Hoe.]]>
<![CDATA[Pekabaran Injil di Afdeeling Makassar, 1930–1950-an ]]>
<![CDATA[A. Fadhilah Utami Ilmi]]>
<![CDATA[ Lembaran Sejarah Vol 17, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lembaran-sejarah.72539
<![CDATA[This article discusses christianization in the Makassar and Bone region between the 1930s and 1950s. This study went through three periods of reign: the Dutch Indies period, the Japanese occupation, and the Proclamation of Independence. This study applied the historical methods that employed primary sources such as Indonesia Protestant Church Archives/Arsip Gereja Protestan Indonesia (AGPI), Indonesian Church Fellowship Archives/Arsip Persekutuan Gereja-Gereja Indonesia (APGI), and several newspapers published during the colonial period. Dutch evangelists took the initial approach to the Muslim people in the colonial era. Behind the work of the Dutch evangelists, the problem appears. The biggest problem was the financial crisis in Makassar and Bone region and the political movement in the name of Islam. This movement often gifted difficulties for the evangelists to curried out their duties.]]>
<![CDATA[Modernisasi Kota: Saluran Air Bersih Perpipaan di Jawa Masa Kolonial ]]>
<![CDATA[Krisnanda Theo Primaditya]]>
<![CDATA[ Lembaran Sejarah Vol 17, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lembaran-sejarah.73174
<![CDATA[The clean water pipeline is a project initiated and designed by the Dutch East Indies government to overcome the problem of water cleanliness in urban areas in the 20th century. At that time, clean water in colonial cities was becoming increasingly scarce due to population growth, among other things. The increasing number of residents causes water pollution in urban areas to increase. The colonial government realized the impact caused by the pollution. Several disease outbreaks began to emerge and attack the city community. Efforts to construct boreholes/artesian wells do not appear to be going as expected. Therefore, the government designed a clean water pipeline construction project to drain water from springs to the colonial city. After the construction of these new facilities, colonial cities underwent significant changes, such as an increase in living standards and cultural changes in urban communities.]]>
<![CDATA[The Port City of Haiphong, 1874–1940: The Position of the Chinese Community in a French Colonial City ]]>
<![CDATA[Nguyen Thi Hoai Phuong]]>
<![CDATA[ Lembaran Sejarah Vol 17, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lembaran-sejarah.79415
<![CDATA[This article discusses the position of the Chinese community in Haiphong, the largest port city in Northern Vietnam during the French colonial period. The Chinese had arrived and lived in Haiphong, as well as many other places in Vietnam long before the advent of the French. Nevertheless, a large-scale influx of Chinese migrants to Haiphong only happened after the French established colonial rule over Indochina and took full control of the town in the late nineteenth century. Haiphong became a strategic port in the transportation system of French Indochina, as well as within the French colonial empire. In Haiphong, the Chinese gathered in a separate residential quarter having the social and cultural life distinct from the French and Vietnamese communities. Yet, they were actively engaged in various economic activities of the town, notetably trade, intrustry, and financial services. The bombardment and occupation of Haiphong by the Japanese army in late 1940 caused great damages and casualties to the Chinese community. The prolonged warfares and the establishment of the communist regime in Vietnam after 1945 virtually ended the economic hegemony of the Chinese in Haiphong, as well other cities in Northern Vietnam.]]>
