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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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From literary dissent to platform visibility: algorithmic circulation and the politics of contemporary Indonesian poetry Muhamamad Faiz Ramadhan
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.v1i2.929

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Background: Contemporary Indonesian poetry increasingly circulates through digital platforms where literary dissent is shaped not only by textual form but also by visibility, shareability, comment infrastructures, and paratextual framing. Objective: This study examines how contemporary Indonesian poetry transforms dissent from a textual mode of critique into a platform-mediated public practice. Method: Using qualitative digital literary discourse analysis, this study analyses thirteen public poetry posts, five secondary scholarly sources, and three contextual sources through critical dissent discourse analysis, platform visibility mapping, and multimodal-paratextual semiotic analysis. Results: Findings show that poetic dissent is concentrated around state power, democracy, violence, memory, political economy, regional precarity, and bodily autonomy, but it is articulated through metaphor, satire, testimony, mourning, allegory, and symbolic indirection rather than direct ideological declaration. Findings also show that platform visibility is uneven: all poems are technically shareable, yet only some generate visible reader interaction or cross-platform traces. Implication: Moreover, editorial framing, authorial biography, regional markers, visual cues, and performance references shape how dissent becomes publicly readable. Novelty: The novelty of this study lies in reframing contemporary Indonesian poetry as mediated cultural action in which literary form, algorithmic circulation, and paratextual publicness jointly configure political meaning.
Beyond the capital: peripheral modernities and uneven citizenship in contemporary literature from Eastern Indonesia Sadani
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.v1i2.930

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Background: Contemporary Indonesian literary studies has increasingly addressed nationalism, memory, gender, mobility, and political resistance, yet literature from Eastern Indonesia remains insufficiently theorised as a site where peripheral modernities and uneven citizenship are narratively produced. Objective: This study examines how contemporary literary works set in Papua, Maluku, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Maluku Utara, Sulawesi Tenggara, and Sulawesi Selatan represent modernity, belonging, and citizenship beyond capital-centred national imagination. Method: This study applies qualitative literary analysis to a selected corpus of Eastern Indonesian fiction, supported by postcolonial literary criticism, peripheral modernity, citizenship studies, and narrative counter-cartography. Results: Findings show that peripheral modernity is narrated through fragile roads, maritime routes, schools, markets, borders, commodities, and uneven institutional access rather than through simple absence or developmental delay. Findings also indicate that citizenship appears as an embodied and locally mediated condition shaped by gender, customary authority, bureaucracy, education, violence memory, and community obligation. Implication: Findings further demonstrate that narrative form remaps Indonesia through island memory, village chronotopes, women’s testimony, child focalisation, ritual temporality, and maritime spatiality. Novelty: This study contributes a counter-cartographic framework for reading Eastern Indonesian literature as a critical archive of unequal national belonging.
Writing after fear: post-authoritarian memory, censorship, and the literary reconstruction of political violence in Indonesia Hasanudin
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 3 (2026): Memory, violence, and post-authoritarian literary politics in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i3.1038

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Background: Indonesian post-authoritarian literature has become a crucial site for narrating political violence because official memory, archival access, and public recognition remain unevenly shaped by silence, stigma, and fear. Objective: This study examines how selected Indonesian literary and contextual texts reconstruct political violence through memory, censorship, and counter-archival narration after authoritarian rule. Method: Using qualitative interpretive textual analysis, this study analyzes a publicly verifiable corpus of literary works, scholarly studies, and contextual documents through memory-form mapping, censorship-and-fear reading, and counter-archive analysis. Results: First, damaged memory is most visible through fragmented temporality, spectral return, archival silence, and intergenerational transmission. Second, censorship appears not only as institutional prohibition but also as narrative hesitation, coded speech, withheld naming, allegorical displacement, and inherited suspicion. Third, literary reconstruction works counter-archivally by centering victims, families, exiles, stigmatized descendants, peripheral spaces, and poetic testimony without claiming documentary closure. Implication: This study shows that post-authoritarian literature should be read not merely as representation of past violence, but as a critical method for negotiating damaged public truth. Novelty: This study offers an integrated framework that links memory, censorship, fear, and counter-archive as interdependent mechanisms of writing after political violence.
Ghosts of the new order: haunting, historical denial, and the politics of unfinished justice in Indonesian fiction M. Rifa Jamaludin Nasir
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 3 (2026): Memory, violence, and post-authoritarian literary politics in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i1.1039

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Background: Post-authoritarian Indonesia remains marked by unresolved memories of New Order violence, where official acknowledgement has not fully addressed cultural silence, stigma, disappearance, and deferred justice. Objective: This study examines how Indonesian fiction represents haunting, historical denial, and unfinished justice as interrelated narrative structures rather than separate thematic concerns. Method: Using qualitative close reading, episode-based coding, spectral motif analysis, denial–archive mapping, and ethical witnessing analysis, this study analyzes selected Indonesian novels and short fiction alongside scholarly and contextual materials. Results: Findings show that spectral return is concentrated in absent bodies, recurring memories, haunted spaces, fractured testimony, material traces, inherited stigma, and suspended mourning. Historical denial appears through euphemistic displacement, silenced testimony, missing archives, stigmatized identity, managed forgetting, displaced blame, and premature reconciliation. Unfinished justice is represented through refusal of closure, ethical witnessing, family recognition, delayed truth, postmemory inheritance, failed return, and moral indictment of impunity. Implication: This study argues that Indonesian fiction functions as a critical archive of cultural memory without being reduced to legal evidence or historical documentation. Novelty: This study advances post-authoritarian literary criticism by reading haunting as a methodological lens for connecting archival absence, narrative disturbance, and the politics of unfinished justice in Indonesian fiction.
The Archive that refuses silence: testimony, documentary imagination, and counter-history in Indonesian literary narratives Devita Septian Dwi Hidayati
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 3 (2026): Memory, violence, and post-authoritarian literary politics in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i3.1040

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Background: Indonesia’s unresolved histories of colonial violence, the 1965–66 massacres, New Order repression, disappearance, exile, and post-authoritarian silence continue to shape literary narratives that confront the limits of official archives and public memory. Objective: This study examines how Indonesian literary narratives construct testimony, documentary imagination, and counter-history as counter-archival practices that refuse historical silence. Method: This study applies qualitative literary discourse analysis to a deduplicated corpus of 33 publicly verifiable items, consisting of primary literary texts, secondary scholarship, and contextual archival or human-rights records. Results: The corpus shows that testimonial voice is most powerful when mediated through fractured memory, embodied silence, family transmission, and spectral presence rather than through transparent confession. Documentary imagination appears through bureaucratic traces, paratexts, witness fragments, visual residues, and archival gaps that make absence analytically legible. Counter-history is concentrated around 1965 and New Order erasure, but also extends to colonial historiography, gendered memory, peripheral citizenship, and transnational displacement. Implication: This study demonstrates that literary narrative can be read as an ethical archive without being reduced to historical evidence. Novelty: This study contributes an integrated analytical model that connects testimonial voice, documentary trace, and counter-historical positioning in Indonesian literary memory studies.
Mothers of the missing: gendered grief, state violence, and the politics of mourning in Indonesian literature Wulan Kurnia Sari
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 3 (2026): Memory, violence, and post-authoritarian literary politics in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i3.1041

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Background: Enforced disappearance in Indonesian political history has produced unresolved forms of grief in which mothers and female relatives confront absent bodies, incomplete archives, and delayed public accountability. Objective: This study examines how Indonesian literature represents gendered grief, state violence, and the politics of mourning through figures of mothers, sisters, wives, and families of the missing. Method: Using a qualitative corpus-based design, this study applies close reading, gendered mourning narrative analysis, disappearance–state violence memory mapping, and public mourning counter-memory mapping to literary, paratextual, scholarly, and contextual records. Results: This study finds that maternal and familial grief functions as narrative witness by transforming suspended loss into ethical testimony. This study also shows that disappearance is represented not only through coercive violence but through archival silence, temporal rupture, absent bodies, and unresolved accountability. This study further demonstrates that mourning becomes counter-memory when private grief enters public address through repetition, testimony, translation, and refusal of forgetting. Implication: This study reframes Indonesian political-literary criticism by shifting attention from victimhood to gendered agency, and from trauma as content to mourning as narrative structure. Novelty: This study offers an integrated feminist, memory-studies, and literary-counterarchive framework for reading mothers of the missing in Indonesian literature.
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
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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.
Novel as political witness: narrative form, collective memory, and democratic anxiety in post-reform Indonesia Ivan Riyadi
Indonesian Journal of Politics and Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 3 (2026): Memory, violence, and post-authoritarian literary politics in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijpl.v1i3.1043

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Background: Post-Reform Indonesian fiction has become a crucial cultural arena for negotiating unresolved histories of authoritarian violence, exile, minority vulnerability, colonial memory, and democratic uncertainty. Objective: This study examines how selected post-Reform Indonesian novels function as political witnesses through narrative form, collective memory mediation, and representations of democratic anxiety. Method: This study applies qualitative interpretive literary analysis by combining close reading, narratological analysis, and memory-oriented thematic coding of a curated corpus of twelve publicly verifiable post-Reform Indonesian novels, supported by secondary scholarship and contextual sources. Results: Narrative witnessing appears most strongly through fragmented temporality, silence, polyphonic voice, embodied memory, and spatialized remembrance. Collective memory is mediated through family transmission, exile and return, counter-memory, minority belonging, gendered bodily experience, and regional location rather than through a singular national chronology. Democratic anxiety emerges where novels connect authoritarian residue, distrust of official truth, unfinished justice, precarious citizenship, and refusal of reconciliatory closure. Implication: This study shows that literary form can disclose democratic unease without reducing fiction to documentary evidence or causal political proof. Novelty: This study offers an integrated framework that links narrative form, collective memory, and democratic anxiety in post-Reform Indonesian literary analysis.

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