CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Magfira, Sita |
|---|---|
| Title | Witnessing State Socialism: The Lives of Indonesian Diaspora, Hungary-Czechoslovakia,1950s-1989 |
| Summary | This thesis centers on the memory of a small community of Indonesian diaspora; reside in Budapest, Prague, and Brno. Once coming as students and/or the Indonesian Communist Party(PKI) cadres in 1959 to 1963, they were part of the science, education, and cultural exchange program—mainly, but not strictly, initiated by states in the Eastern Europe and the Third World countries started in the 1950s. Following the 1965-66 communist massacre in Indonesia, these then students lost their Indonesian citizenship in 1966 for their affiliation with PKI and/or support for Sukarno. They were thus rendered stateless; under the auspices of the Socialist Hungary and the Czechoslovakia governments—and managed to get the citizenship of the two countries after the 1989 transformation. This study is about their stories and experiences of living through state socialism. How was it like for them to witness state socialism? What are their memories of the some major events in the Long Sixties? How was their experiences of living through the transformation in the Hungary and (then) Czechoslovakia? How do they see themselves, and the societies they live in, change over times and events? What the experience of this small community can tell about the similarities and differences of both regimes; does it matter if one end up in one country or another? It draws upon oral history interviews with six émigrés and two second generation of this diaspora community; fragmented archival documents from different sources (personal archive, publications, nongovernmental organization’s archive, and National Archive); and related secondary researches. It has two main part of findings—based on two periods; 1950s-1970 and 1989. For it entails a longue durée; the findings are thematic. It encompasses their slices of life; ranging from their stories of migrating and integrating to their outlooks on some major political events, including the Hungarian Uprising, the Sino-Soviet Split, the Prague Spring, and the transformation. While trying to reconstruct their stories and life experiences, this study also tries to rediscover the connection between Indonesia-Hungary and Indonesia-Czech oslovakiaȁ 4;the moving of people, goods, and ideas between the countries; its flux and its rupture. |
| Supervisor | Trencsényi, Balázs |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/magfira_sita.pdf |
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