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995968 MSS0010.1177/1750698021995968Memory StudiesLeong research-article2021 Article Invisible threads linking phantasmal landscapes in Java: Haunted places and memory in post-authoritarian Indonesia Memory Studies 1–23 © The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698021995968 DOI: 10.1177/1750698021995968 journals.sagepub.com/home/mss Kar-Yen Leong Tamkang University Abstract The nation is often ‘imagined’ through various elements such as the media, education, ideologies, each providing the necessary ‘boundaries’ for its existence. It is also a space where the landscape is constructed and utilised to shape its citizens’ perception. However, the idea of a nation is not just circumscribed by what is celebrated or visible but also by what is ‘silenced’. During the transitional period between the Sukarno and Suharto administrations in the mid 60’s, approximately 500,000–1 million suspected leftists, communists and dissidents were incarcerated and disappeared. Thus even 20 years after the downfall of Suharto’s authoritarian regime, the incident continues to be an unspeakable ‘open secret’. This paper posits that beneath Indonesia’s modern veneer lies ‘pockets’ of spaces that physically mark this hidden history. I ask how Indonesians conceive and tell of this ‘unmentionable’ history through narratives that surround places of death and violence. I will be looking specifically at sites where dissidents have either been interrogated, imprisoned as well as executed. This research looks at how Indonesians utilise tales of the ghostly and the spectral as a way to bypass the taboo which surrounds the event and at the same time ‘narrativise’ it. I state that these tales of ghosts, hauntings and the supernatural are attempts by Indonesians to comprehend better what was otherwise an ‘incomprehensible’

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Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Unarmed Fortresses: The Army and the PKI’s Rival Struggles for Hegemony during Guided Democracy
2. Mental Operations: The Army’s Propaganda after October 1, 1965
3. Tortured Words: Interrogations and the Production of Truth
4. Surprise Attacks: The Destruction of the PKI in Surakarta
5. Vanishing Points: Disappearances in Bali
6. Invisible Worlds: The Kapal Massacre in Bali
7. Dead Labor: Disappearances in Sumatra
Conclusions
Afterlives
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Building in North Banjarbaru, Indonesia

Mess L, officially known as Dekranasda Creative Hub, is a multipurpose building located in the city of Banjarbaru, Indonesia. Located in Komet subdistrict, North Banjarbaru district, it was formerly a building used by Soviet workers as homebase to assist development of steel industry in the then-newly built city. The Soviet workers left the city in 1965 due to transition to the New Order, resulting in cancelation of the project and abandonment of the building. The building was left crumbling down and overgrown by vegetation until 2017 when it was renovated and repurposed as a creative economy center and multipurpose building.

History

Banjarbaru was a relatively new city built with the purpose of replacing Banjarmasin as the new capital of the then-single Kalimantan province to avoid frequent flooding.Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, wanted the city to be a new steel industry center in the region and requested assistance from the Soviet Union to develop the industry. The building, used as a homebase and housing for Soviet workers, was built around 1963. The plan was never realized due to a coup against Sukarno by Suharto and the start of the New Order, which was followed by a purge of communism.

The building was overgrown by vegetation and was seen by locals as a haunted place. In 2017, the building, which was an asset still owned by the Indonesian Air Force, was transferred to the city government and the building's renovation began. The construction started in 2018 and the renovation was finished in 2019. A small children's park and a stage for cultural performances was built in addition to the building's renovation. The building was used as a multipurpose building, and as the city's economic center of culture and creativity. Several exhibition events for small and medium enterpris