The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia

352 Pages·2010·9.58 MB·English

by  Abidin Kusno

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Mnemonic Practices of Architecture
and Urban Form in Indonesia
Abidin Kusno
Duke University Press
Durham and London
2010
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The Canada Foundation for Innovation provided a generous
subvention toward the publication of this book.
For tony, isaak, and hong

Contents
ix Illustrations
xiii Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
governmentality
25 Chapter 1
Whither Nationalist Urbanism? Public Life in Governor Sutiyoso’s Jakarta
49 Chapter 2
The Regime, the Busway, and the Construction of Urban Subjects in an
Indonesian Metropolis
71 Chapter 3
“Back to the City”: Urban Architecture in the New Indonesia
remembering and Forgetting
101 Chapter 4
Glodok on Our Minds: Chinese Culture and the Forgetting of the
May Riots
125 Chapter 5
The Afterlife of the Empire Style, Indische Architectuur, and
Art Deco
reminiscences
155 Chapter 6
Colonial Cities in Motion: Urban Symbolism and Popular Radicalism
182 Chapter 7
Urban Pedagogy: The Appearance of Order and Normality in Late
Colonial Java, 1926–42
mental nebulae
203 Chapter 8
“The Reality of One-Which-Is-Two”: Java’s Reception of Global Islam
223 Chapter 9
Guardian of Memories: The Gardu in Urban Java
279 Notes
313 Bibliography
327 Index
viii contents
IllustratIons
1. Signboards at a housing complex in post-Suharto Jakarta 32
2. Vendors on sidewalk 34
3. Vendors’ pushcarts parked at the National Monument 39
4. The Jakarta Historical Corridor 44
5. The exclusive busway lane 50
6. The busway route along Jalan Protokol 60
7. The bridge to the busway shelter on Jalan Sudirman 62
8. Interior of a busway shelter 64
9. Interior of Tanjung Duren House 77
10. Rental housing design for the urban poor 79
11. Model of Epicentrum, the largest superblock in the golden triangle
of Jakarta 82
12. Senayan City Mall 85
13. Artist’s impression of the Archipelago 89
14. Grand Indonesia under construction 93
15. Artist’s rendering of the new Glodok Plaza 107
16. The new Pasar Glodok 109
17. Commemorators carrying photos of the May riots in front of the new
Pasar Glodok 111
18. Candra Naya, a house built in an Indo-Chinese architectural
style 113
19. Scene from the illustrated story Jakarta 2039 118
20. Damaged shops in Glodok 123
21. The regent’s house in Tjianjur, 1874 132
22. The return of the Empire Style: A house in North Jakarta 135