Sultans’ Palaces and Museums in Indonesian Borneo : National Policies, Political Decentralization, Cultural Depatrimonization, Identity Relocalization, 1950-2010
In the context of Indonesia’s nation-building policies of the 1950s, the centralized state abolished the archipelago’s sultanates, large and small, which had been granted special political status by treaties with the Dutch colonial administration. In Kalimantan (Borneo), as elsewhere in the country,...
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Archipel
2017
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | In the context of Indonesia’s nation-building policies of the 1950s, the centralized state abolished the archipelago’s sultanates, large and small, which had been granted special political status by treaties with the Dutch colonial administration. In Kalimantan (Borneo), as elsewhere in the country, sultans’ palaces became property of the state, which after 1970 turned some of them into museums. These second-generation museums housed permanent exhibits of a national and educational nature, along with others of local historical and cultural significance. Decentralization policies implemented after to the fall of President Soeharto in 1998 devolved much political and economic autonomy to the regions, and a number of offspring of sultans managed to reinstate themselves to the throne of their forebears, and now claim the reversion of their property and endeavor to restore their focal position in the regions’ bubblier, more localized cultural and political life. The last decade witnessed the advent of a third generation of museums, initiated by various local stake holders and/or run by regional governments. |
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