Taufiq Hanafi, a postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), is interested in cultural politics, particularly the production and regulation of literary texts. His recent Ph.D. thesis examines knowledge production in Indonesia during the New Order period and associated state censorship.
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Articles by Taufiq Hanafi (2)
Indonesia: Prabowo Subianto, Swimming and Mythmaking
Taufiq Hanafi
The incoming Indonesian president swims for his health. The tale he likes to tell of one of his swims, however, is but one layer of many in the carefully constructed narrative surrounding his leadership and past record.
Throwing Multiple Blows: “Eksil” (The Exiles) and Indonesia’s Fight against Political Taboo
Taufiq Hanafi
Mr Hanafi is responding to Max Lane’s Fulcrum, published on 18 March 2024, on the success of “Eksil”, the documentary about ten exiled Indonesians discussing Suharto’s purge of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the ensuing violence in the mid-1960s.