Abstract
Jan Djong emerged from the conservative small-town milieu of church and rajaship to become the district’s republican rebel shortly after World War II. His repertoire was hybrid. It lacked most connection with the institutions of civic deliberation. Instead, he combined modern republican tropes of protest (the “demonstration”) with indigenous ones (tribal warfare). His campaign against the local raja’s dynasty brought together white collar urban republicanism with rural peasant demands for recognition. Although often infused by rough-and-tumble violence, the campaign acted inclusively. It was rewarded with success. At least temporarily.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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Notes
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Text of Jan Djong’s notification to police of a planned ‘demonstration’ to be held in Maumere on 19 June 1953 (courtesy of Dion Djong, son of Jan Djong).
In order to realise the desire of these People of KANILIMA, which desire is certainly well-known in Maumere, KANILIMA plans to hold a demonstration
- on date ::
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19 June 1953,
- at place ::
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Maumere Town
- participating ::
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approximately 10,000 people
Posters that will be carried:
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Motto: Regnat Populus (= the People rule).
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Eliminate the raja.
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Where there is a raja = there is colonialism.
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Where there is a raja = there is slavery.
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Democracy + raja =
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Maumere – Kanilima = 1/5
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Where there is a raja = chaos.
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Choose: Raja and KANILIMA.
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There is no longer place for a raja …
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Raja + DPS (Dewan Pemerintah Swapradja, elected advisory council) =?
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DPS – raja = a mirror of Kanilima.
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Kanilima always supports the government’s efforts to dispose of the raja.
Names of streets the group is to pass along will follow before this coming 19 June.
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The Russian anarchist Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842–1921) promoted a decentralised communist society in which communities and enterprises were run democratically by their members.
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van Klinken, G. (2019). Postcolonial Citizens. In: Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6725-0_3
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