‘We cannot heal what we will not face’: dismantling the cultural trauma and the May ’98 riots in Rani P Collaborations’ Chinese Whispers

Understanding the Cultural Trauma behind Identity Creating a Third Space in the Middle of Polarity

“…The dominance of audio-visual culture presented by the convergence of new media can ultimately change the perception of memory or trauma among the younger generation. This change in perception has the potential to create a wave of transformative movement as stated by Adji and Polain (2021). In this study, data is presented on how new media succeeded in opening channels for discursive conversation about the cultural trauma of the 1998 violence and succeeded in transmitting memories in the context of imagination and empathy whose resonance transcends space and time.…”

“…In this study, data is presented on how new media succeeded in opening channels for discursive conversation about the cultural trauma of the 1998 violence and succeeded in transmitting memories in the context of imagination and empathy whose resonance transcends space and time. Through new media, narratives of cultural trauma that originate at the grassroots can finally be more channelized to create discursive and transformative momentum in a nation-building process (Adji and Polain, 2021;Al Azmeh, et al, 2021;Leese, et al , 2021;Liu, 2021;Manca;Marjanovic, 2020).…”

“…In terms of silencing cultural trauma narratives, Adji & Polain (2021) has suggested that in the context of decolonization in a nation building process, Indonesia should be able to more honestly acknowledge forms of violence in the past; no matter how bitter and complex it is. This confirms important findings from many studies which state that the inheritance of cultural trauma narratives that are not communicated in a dialogical atmosphere has the potential to create a cycle of violence that has an impact on the positioning of national the Middle of Polarity (Ken Miriam Vivekananda) identity in a nation building process, including election momentum in it (Adji and Polain, 2021;Hoffman , 2021;Babakhanyan, 2019;Keeble, 2021;Seltzer, 2021, Al Azmeh, et al, 2021Manca, 2021;Paris, 2022;Pinchevski, 2019;Lehrner and Yehuda, 2018).…”

“…This is explored in the studies of Heryanto (2018), Appadurai (2019), Sütterlin (2020), andMeretoja (2020. In 2021, studies related to this matter will be increasingly discussed, as can be read in the study by Adji & Polain (2021), Al Azmeh, et al (2021), Liu (2021), Leese, et al (2021), Simon (2021), andWicaksono (2021).…”

The art of honing the conscience through bukalapak ads: barongsai Indonesia, juara hati membangun bangsa

“…This practice, along with the banning of Chinese characters, was a way of abolishing Chinese identities [9]. As an ethnic minority, the Chinese often receive discrimination and even become targets of racial riots [11]. The racial riots in West Java 10 May 1963, the closure of Chinese language schools in December 1966 and various Chinese newspapers the following year, the prohibition of using Mandarin characters in any product or print media in 1979, until the climax of the riots in May 1998 which caused a lot of material loss, victims of rape, and massacres of casualties [12] were significant examples.…”