Wahyudi Akmaliah
Wahyudi Akmaliah is a researcher at the Research Centre of Society and Culture, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (PMB–LIPI). He received his bachelor degree in Islamic education from the Islamic State University of Sunan Kalijaga (2003), his master degrees in cultural studies from the Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia (2008), and in International Peace Studies from the University for Peace, Costa Rica (2010), which the Nippon
Foundation sponsored. His research interests are Sociology of Knowledge and Cultural Studies by focusing on Islam, identity, and popular culture. Currently, he is PhD. Student at Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS). Some of his works are published in the Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities, Indonesian
Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, Al-Jāmi‘ah, Studia Islamika, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Book Chapter in ISEAS-Yusuf Ishak, Singapore.
Foundation sponsored. His research interests are Sociology of Knowledge and Cultural Studies by focusing on Islam, identity, and popular culture. Currently, he is PhD. Student at Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS). Some of his works are published in the Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities, Indonesian
Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, Al-Jāmi‘ah, Studia Islamika, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Book Chapter in ISEAS-Yusuf Ishak, Singapore.
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build economic, politic, and governmental infrastructure independently. One way to take was both developing
human resource capabilities and creating a new potential generation among Indonesian students by sending them to
study in the developed countries. However, the imagined dream had disappeared along with the events of 1965-1966
which marked by the movement of September 30, 1965. This paper focuses on pre and post of the 1965-1966 events
by raising two questions; how was Indonesia being imagined by the Sukarno presidency within the context of foreign
policy in the Cold War era by sending the Indonesian students for studying overseas? What was the impact of the
1965-966 events that they were facing? This article shows that the event of 1965-1966 does not only break a dream
that imagined by Sukarno, but also causes the emergence of Indonesian exiles community that had been finally
forced them to become a stateless citizen. Although they are no longer Indonesian citizen, both of their memory and
social activities of Indonesia have been still so strong up to now. In the term of Benedict Anderson’s words, they are
well-known as community of long-distance nationalism.
questions need to be asked: what are the circumstances that have encouraged the victims to articulate their memories in the 17 years since Suharto’s departure? In what way have they kept their memories fresh? This paper argues that the main reason they articulate their memory is that of the traumas that always haunted them during the Suharto presidency. The trauma and injustices experienced; the torture, jail, and the stigma attached to them by the Suharto regime’s propaganda, all ensured that the general Indonesian social memory of the events at Tanjung Priok was false and distorted. But those sites of memory, the ritual, monuments, and memoirs served to strengthen the articulation of those memories to enable some redress after Suharto regime had ended.
The study used a quantitative approach through surveys as a method of data collection. This research was conducted during COVID-19 pandemic; therefore, researchers used the Google form application to distribute questionnaires with links that could be accessed by research subjects.
The results of this study showed that leisure consumption is important during the time of crisis. To find out more about the reasons and effects related to K-drama during the COVID-19 pandemic, our team suggestion is to conduct further research using qualitative methods. The results of this study can be a preliminary background for further research related to K-Drama and COVID-19 in Indonesia.