Transnational Relations and the Development of Postcolonial States and Societies

Panel Convenor(s)

• WU

  Wildan Utama

  Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia

Panel Chair(s)

• AW

  Abdul Wahid

  Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia

Presenter(s)

• WU

  Wildan Utama

  Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
• FF

  Farabi Fakih

  Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
• WN

  Widya Fitria Ningsih

  Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
• YY

  Yulianti Yulianti

  Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia

In the post-independence era, new nations, such as Indonesia, concentrated on designing, experimenting with, and implementing directions and visions for the development of society and the state. Discussions of identity, decolonisation, development, welfare, and progress were not only the exclusive province of government elites, but also the concern and interest of intellectuals, activists, religious actors, and cultural figures more broadly. Conversations took place intensively not only within the domestic political landscape but also involve transnational connections and interactions. Newly engraved intercontinental solidarities, an increasingly connected post-empire world, and the establishment of international organisations allowed for the establishment of transnational relationships between intellectuals, activists, religious actors, and cultural figures across the decolonised world. Connections and interactions in transnational networks or platforms between intellectuals, activists, religious actors, and cultural figures were crucial in mapping social, economic, political, and cultural conditions as well as an opportunity for them to share views on important topics to new nation-building such as identity, religion, women’s issues, anti-colonialism, decolonisation, peace, development, and welfare. This panel discusses how problem identification, idea formulation, and imaginings of the future in Asian and African countries were shaped by transnational interactions and cooperation, not just by contestation over ideas within national landscapes. Transnationalism became a way for intellectuals, activists, religious actors, and cultural figures to work together to face the challenges of the time while building designs for the progress of societies and countries.
 

Institutional panel by: Department of History, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Presentations:

• 09:00 – 10:45 (GMT+7)

  Feminist Bandung: The Asian-African Conference of Women and Women's Social Development in the Third World
  

  Presenter: Wildan Sena Utama – Gadjah Mada University
• 09:00 – 10:45 (GMT+7)

  Corruption in the Oil and Gas Sector as a Transnational Phenomenon
  

  Presenter: Farabi Fakih – Gadjah Mada University
• 09:00 – 10:45 (GMT+7)

  The Indonesian Women's Engagements in the (Transnational) Decolonial Movement, 1945-1960s
  

  Presenter: Widya Fitria Ningsih – Gadjah Mada University
• 09:00 – 10:45 (GMT+7)

  Towards Asian Buddhists Networks in post-Independence Indonesia
  

  Presenter: Yulianti Yulianti – Gadjah Mada University