Conferenties & Workshops
Conferentie 'Decolonization of the Indonesian city', 4/2006
Workshop ‘Economic Decolonization in Indonesia', 11/2005
Workshop 'Street images', 08/2005
Conferentie 'The decolonization of Sumatra', 08/2005
3e Workshop 'Van Indië tot Indonesië', 08/2005
Workshop ‘Indonesia during the Japanese occupation’, 07/2005
2e Workshop 'Van Indië tot Indonesië', 01/2005
Training 'Stadssymboliek', 09/2004
1e Workshop 'Van Indië tot Indonesië', 08/2004
Conferentie 'Stadsgeschiedenis in Indonesië', 08/2004
Workshop 'Stedelijke arbeid in Indonesië', 08/2004
Workshop 'De economische kant van de dekolonisatie', 08/2004
Conferentie 'Decolonizing societies', 2003
Workshop 'Economic decolonization in Indonesia', 08/2005
Introductie
Van 17 tot en met 19 november 2005
vindt er in Leiden een internationale workshop plaats met de titel ‘Economic
Decolonization in Indonesia in Regional Perspective’. De workshop wordt georganiseerd
door het International Institute for Asian Studies en het Nederlands Instituut
voor Oorlogsdocumentatie in het kader van het NIOD-onderzoeksprogramma ‘Van
Indië tot Indonesië’.
Publiek is welkom na opgave bij het secretariaat van het International Institute
for Asian Studies, Postbus 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, telefoon 071 5272227 of e-mail
iias@let.leidenuniv.nl. De voertaal is Engels.
‘Economic Decolonization in Indonesia in Regional Perspective’
Sponsors: NIOD ( Amsterdam ) and IIAS ( Leiden )
Date:
17-19 November 2005
Venue: Faculty Club, Rapenburg
6, Leiden
Convenors:
J. Thomas Lindblad
Jasper van de Kerkhof
Decolonization was not only about the political retreat of the former colonizer, but also about putting an end to its economic domination. The workshop examines this process in Indonesia , where the economic emancipation of the indigenous population proved to be a particularly protracted and painful process. Dutch enteprise continued to play a major role in the economy until 1957/58, when Dutch firms were first taken over by local labor unions and eventually nationalized. The case of Indonesia thus illustrates the dilemma which confronted many newly independent nations: how to construct a viable national economy while at the same time retain the input of foreign capital and technology.
This workshop aims to put the process of economic decolonization in Indonesia in regional comparative perspective by drawing parallels and highlighting differences with other decolonizing societies in Southeast Asia, examining the role of Japan in the economic decolonization process and investigating the alleged uniqueness of the Dutch experience in Indonesia in the 1950s.
List of participants (tentative)
Bondan Kanumoyoso
Anne Booth
Didi Kwartanada
Hersumpana
Jasper van de Kerkhof
J. Thomas Lindblad
Daan Marks
Peter Post
Bambang Purwanto
Antony Reid
Thee Kian Wie
Tri Chandra Apriyanto