The Phantom World of Digul: Policing as Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941 Shiraishi Takashi
The Phantom World of Digul: Policing as Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941 Shiraishi Takashi Digul was an internment colony for political prisoners that was established in 1926 in West Papua.…
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The Phantom World of Digul: Policing as Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941 Shiraishi Takashi
Digul was an internment colony for political prisoners that was established in 1926 in West Papua. The political policing regime the Dutch Indies state created, Takashi Shiraishi shows, was simultaneously a success and a failure. This book argues that Digul is the key to understanding Indonesia's colonial governance between the failed communist rebellion of late 1926 and the declaration of independence in 1945, a time when the Dutch regime attempted to impose what they called "rust en orde," or peace and order, on the Indonesian people via the suppression of politics by the police.
What were the While unrest was to some degree put down, the native terrain was never completely pacified, as activists linked up with each other in fluid networks that cut across spatial and ideational boundaries.How did the government deploy political policing to achieve its policy objectives?
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