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Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies
Published by CV Narasi Khatulistiwa Indonesia
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Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies is a double blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes original research articles and critical studies at the intersection of politics, literature, and cultural discourse. This journal is published quarterly as a platform for the dissemination of theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary findings that explore how literary texts, narratives, and cultural productions engage with political ideas, power relations, ideologies, and socio-historical contexts. It addresses a broad range of topics, including but not limited to political criticism in literature, literary representations of power and ideology, postcolonial and ideological studies, literature and nationalism, resistance and identity in literary texts, cultural and political discourse, narrative politics, and language-centered approaches to political and literary phenomena across historical and contemporary contexts.
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Narratives of resistance: political allegory in post-reform Indonesian novels Refai
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Political discourse and representation in Indonesian literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i1.530

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Background: Post-Reform Indonesian literature reflects a complex negotiation between memory, power, and freedom, where political allegory becomes a medium of cultural resistance and moral reflection. Objective: This study aims to examine how post-1998 Indonesian novels construct narratives of resistance through political allegory, metaphorical discourse, and ideological positioning. Method: Using a qualitative interpretive method that integrates Narrative Analysis (Labov & Waletzky), Allegorical-Symbolic Analysis (Frye), and Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough), ten novels published between 1998 and 2020 were analyzed as this research corpus. Results: The findings reveal three major patterns: first, economic metaphors such as “corruption = disease” and “capital = monster” dominate the symbolic critique of power; second, ideological metaphors articulate plural resistance—especially feminist and religious reformist stances—through dialogic narrative structures; and third, lexical metaphors like “fire,” “blood,” and “silence” establish an evolving language of dissent that connects trauma, identity, and justice. Implication: These results imply that metaphor functions not merely as ornamentation but as a cognitive and ideological structure that shapes how Indonesian readers and writers imagine democracy and moral recovery. Novelty: This study enriches literary and cultural discourse by showing how allegory operates as a sociopolitical grammar of resistance in post-authoritarian Indonesia.
Language of dissent: a discourse analysis of protest poetry in contemporary Indonesia Gerry Kadamehang
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Political discourse and representation in Indonesian literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i1.531

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Background: In post-Reformasi Indonesia, protest poetry has re-emerged as a key medium for articulating dissent, collective emotion, and political critique amid democratic regression. Objective: This study examines how contemporary protest poetry constructs resistance, negotiates power, and articulates collective identity and memory. Method: A qualitative approach integrates Critical Discourse Analysis, poetic–stylistic analysis, and sociolinguistic analysis across printed, digital, and performative texts. Results: Protest poetry functions as counter-discourse through delegitimizing representations of the state, while poetic devices such as metaphor and repetition enable affective political critique; non-standard language and grassroots registers further construct collective identity and preserve social memory. Implication: These findings highlight protest poetry as a vital site of political meaning-making and cultural resistance in contemporary Indonesia. Novelty: This study offers an integrative analytical framework that bridges discourse analysis, poetics, and sociolinguistics to reveal how aesthetic forms operate as political strategies in contemporary protest movements.
Constructing the nation: literary representations of Indonesian nationalism in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s works Putriyatul Jamilah
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Political discourse and representation in Indonesian literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i1.532

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Background: Literary representations of nationalism in postcolonial Indonesia shape historical consciousness and collective identity. Objective: This study examines how nationalism is constructed in the novels of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, focusing on colonial–indigenous relations and identity formation. Method: A qualitative interpretive approach integrates Critical Discourse Analysis, narrative analysis, and postcolonial criticism of the Buru Quartet. Results: Nationalism is constructed through resistance to colonial knowledge, positioning indigenous subjects as active agents, while narratives depict a shift from individual awareness to collective political identity and function as counter-archives to colonial historiography. Implication: These findings affirm literature’s role in reshaping historical narratives and postcolonial identity discourse. Novelty: This study offers an integrative framework linking discourse, narrative, and historiography to reveal nationalism as both a linguistic and narrative construct.
Literary memory and political violence: trauma narratives in Indonesian historical fiction Kadek Nara Widyatnyana
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Political discourse and representation in Indonesian literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i1.533

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Background: Political violence in Indonesian history, especially colonial repression and the 1965 mass violence, has produced enduring trauma often absent from official historiography. Objective: This study examines how Indonesian historical fiction constructs literary memory and represents political violence through discourse and narrative form. Method: A qualitative interpretive approach integrates Critical Discourse Analysis, narrative analysis, and trauma-oriented literary analysis of selected novels. Results: Violence is represented through indirection—euphemism, silence, and abstraction—while trauma appears in non-linear, repetitive, and fragmented narratives; metaphor and restrained diction mediate unspeakable experiences. Implication: These findings position historical fiction as a counter-archive that ethically represents trauma and expands discourse on memory and post-authoritarian literature. Novelty: This study integrates discourse, narrative, and trauma analysis to reveal how linguistic and aesthetic strategies function as ethical mechanisms of witnessing political violence.
Ideology and gender in political literature: a feminist reading of Indonesian political dramas Muhammad Rasyid Ridlo
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Political discourse and representation in Indonesian literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i1.534

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Background: Indonesian political drama serves as a medium of resistance but often embeds patriarchal views of gender and agency. Objective: This study examines how political ideology and gender intersect in dramas by W.S. Rendra and Nano Riantiarno. Method: A qualitative approach integrates Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, narrative, and ideological analysis. Results: Male characters dominate political discourse, while women are positioned as moral or subordinate figures; narratively, they function as catalysts or victims, and symbolically as markers of patriarchal power. Implication: These findings reveal that political drama both critiques authoritarianism and reproduces gender inequality, calling for feminist reinterpretation. Novelty: This study offers an integrative framework linking discourse, narrative, and stage symbolism to expose gendered power within political theatre.
Populism in popular literature: the political rhetoric of the ‘people’ in Indonesian bestseller novels Rika Yani
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Political discourse and representation in Indonesian literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i1.535

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Background: The convergence of populist discourse and popular culture in post-Reformasi Indonesia positions bestselling novels as key sites for political meaning-making. Objective: This study examines how Indonesian bestseller novels construct “the people,” oppose elites, and normalize populist logic. Method: A qualitative approach integrates Critical Discourse Analysis, narrative analysis, and populist rhetoric. Results: Novels portray “the people” as morally virtuous against corrupt elites, using polarized discourse, emotional narratives, and simplified rhetoric to legitimize populist views. Implication: These findings show that popular literature functions as a cultural infrastructure shaping everyday political imagination. Novelty: This study provides an integrative framework linking discourse, narrative, and populist rhetoric to reveal how literary texts normalize populism beyond formal politics.
Writing under algorithmic rule: digital authoritarianism, surveillance, and counterpublic imagination in contemporary Indonesian fiction M. Ansori
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Literature, political futures, and contested lives in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i2.924

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Background: Digital authoritarianism has increasingly transformed public communication into a terrain of algorithmic visibility, surveillance, informational control, and anticipatory conformity, yet its cultural representation in contemporary Indonesian fiction remains insufficiently examined. Objective: This study aims to investigate how Indonesian fictional narratives represent algorithmic rule, surveillance practices, authoritarian memory, and counterpublic imagination under digitally mediated conditions of power. Method: Using qualitative digital literary analysis, this study examines selected contemporary Indonesian fictional texts alongside scholarly and contextual materials through thematic coding, narrative interpretation, and comparative textual analysis. Results: Findings indicate that algorithmic rule is represented primarily through mediated visibility, data profiling, platform dependency, and self-censorship, showing how digital power enters everyday subject formation. Surveillance is narrated less as direct coercion than as anticipated monitoring, historical fear, informational restriction, and socially distributed observation. Implication: Counterpublic imagination emerges through alternative public formation, symbolic resistance, memory-based solidarity, narrative reclaiming, and future-oriented imagination, suggesting that fiction preserves critical spaces for meaning-making under conditions of control. Novelty: This study offers a novel contribution by bridging digital authoritarianism studies, surveillance studies, and Indonesian literary criticism to show how fiction functions as an interpretive arena where algorithmic power becomes culturally visible, emotionally intelligible, and politically contestable.
Who owns the forest? extractive capitalism, indigenous sovereignty, and narrative resistance in Indonesian environmental literature Dani Setiaji
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Literature, political futures, and contested lives in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i2.925

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Background: Forest conflicts in Indonesia reveal that ownership is not only a legal question but also a struggle over memory, livelihood, ecological authority, and narrative legitimacy. Objective: This study aims to examine how Indonesian environmental literature represents extractive capitalism, Indigenous sovereignty, and narrative resistance in forest-centered narratives. Method: Using qualitative literary analysis, this study analyzes seven publicly verifiable Indonesian literary texts through political-ecological coding, eco-postcolonial close reading, Indigenous sovereignty analysis, and a narrative-resistance grid. Results: Findings show that forest ownership is represented as a contested field where concessionary access, timber labour, ecological depletion, and customary restraint produce competing claims over land and authority. Findings also indicate that Indigenous sovereignty appears through relational forms, including ritual memory, ecological knowledge, sacred trees, mythic agency, livelihood attachment, and more-than-human obligation. Implication: Findings further demonstrate that resistance operates through narrative form, especially testimony, labour witnessing, ecological warning, atmospheric symbolism, curse, mythic refusal, and sacred metaphor. Novelty: This study offers novelty by integrating extractive capitalism, Indigenous sovereignty, and narrative resistance into one eco-postcolonial framework for reading Indonesian environmental literature as a counter-archive of forest injustice.
After the boats disappear: forced migration, statelessness, and precarious belonging in Southeast Asian refugee narratives Aisultanova Karlygash Abdukalykowna
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Literature, political futures, and contested lives in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i2.927

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Background: Forced migration in Southeast Asia increasingly reveals that maritime escape, rescue, or resettlement does not end refugee precarity when citizenship, documentation, and social recognition remain suspended. Objective: This study examines how Southeast Asian refugee narratives represent forced migration, statelessness, and precarious belonging after boats disappear from immediate public and humanitarian attention. Method: Using qualitative textual analysis, this study analyzes 19 publicly accessible documents consisting of refugee narratives, oral-history archives, humanitarian stories, public history materials, visual-documentary pages, and contextual institutional sources. Results: Findings show that maritime routes operate as narrative thresholds rather than closed episodes, because boats, camps, shelters, archives, and diasporic spaces form a continuous geography of unfinished displacement. Findings also indicate that statelessness is narrated through documentation absence, legal limbo, mobility restriction, humanitarian dependency, and intergenerational exclusion rather than through juridical language alone. Implication: Findings further demonstrate that testimony, family memory, digital archives, and visual representation function as fragile but meaningful practices through which refugees negotiate voice, history, and belonging. Novelty: This study contributes a narrative-spatial and legal-cultural framework that connects route, protection status, memory, and belonging, thereby repositioning Southeast Asian refugee narratives as critical sites for understanding post-arrival precarity.
The nation’s unfinished dead: haunting, archival silence, and the politics of memory in post-authoritarian Indonesian novels Awla Akbar Ilma
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Literature, political futures, and contested lives in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i2.928

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Background: Post-authoritarian Indonesian fiction emerges from a national memory field marked by unresolved political death, forced disappearance, inherited stigma, and incomplete public reckoning with authoritarian violence. Objective: This study aims to examine how post-authoritarian Indonesian novels narrate haunting, archival silence, and necropolitical memory as literary responses to unfinished death and contested national belonging. Method: Using qualitative literary analysis, this study combines close reading, coded narrative-unit analysis, and memory-oriented discourse analysis across selected novels and contextual scholarly sources. Results: Findings show that haunting appears most strongly as temporal residue, where past violence continues through fugitivity, exile, delayed searching, family memory, and inherited fear rather than through literal ghostly presence alone. Findings also indicate that archival silence functions as a counter-archival force, enabling novels to transform missing documents, suppressed testimony, family fragments, and absent bodies into alternative modes of remembrance. Implication: Findings further reveal that necropolitical memory positions dead, disappeared, exiled, and stigmatized subjects as unstable members of national history, exposing unequal access to mourning, recognition, and symbolic belonging. Novelty: This study offers novelty by conceptualizing unfinished death as an integrated analytical category linking hauntology, archival silence, and necropolitical memory in post-authoritarian Indonesian literary studies.

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