Panggah Ardiyansyah: 'Kramat' and the Politics of Indonesian History

Talking Indonesia by Talking Indonesia

Apr 10, 202600:42:16News & Politics

If you studied Indonesian history in school in the 1990s, you learned to divide the archipelago's past into neat chapters: Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms, then Islamic sultanates, with a brief “transitional period” somewhere in...

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