Transformative Memory Archive

Items

• Testimony of a Memory Keeper: Jane Luyke
  This short video depicted the night of the welcome dinner at Jane Luyke's backyard, 15 February 2025. Jane hosted the participants of the Indonesia Knowledge Exchange 2025. The night includes a performance from Dialita Choir, pop-up exhibit curated by Alit Ambara, a spread of Indonesian food and dessert, as well exchanges of stories, gifts, and solidarity. This video is created and contributed by Jane's grandson, Vadimitra.
• Catalogue "Conversing with Domestic Memory"
  This is the catalogue of TMIN Indonesia Travelling Exhibit titled "Conversing with Domestic Memory." The catalogue consists of the list of artists and their artworks that were exhibited in Ruang MES 56, Jogjakarta, from February 18 to 22, 2025. The catalogue was designed by poster artist, Alit Ambara.
• Through Jane's Eyes: A Journey of Memory, Trauma and Healing
  This reflection is written by Moses Okot, youth activist from Youth Advocacy Network, in Gulu, Uganda. Moses wrote this document as part of his reflection upon participating in the Indonesia Knowledge Exchange, 15-22 February, 2025.
• Songs of Hope - Dialita Choir
  Dialita choir performed the songs that once sung in prisons and were created by political prisoners. Various songs that emerged in these prisons were sung but never written down. Dialita choir consisted of women who were once political prisoners, daughters of political prisoners or the disappeared victims of 1965-66 massacres in Indonesia, and women who are steadfast in their support of justice and truth. Dialita performed a few of their songs to welcome the participants of Indonesia Knowledge Exchange, as well one song from Colombia and another from Uganda as a testament of their solidarity for the struggles for memory and justice in both countries.
• Three Generations
  The photo depicted Jane Luyke, sitting on the wheelchair, surrounded by her daughter, her son-in-law, and her two grandchildren. Jane came up to the stage to welcome the participants of Indonesia Knowledge Exchange to her home. Jane Luyke is the wife of Oey Hay Djoen, a prominent writer, businessman, and member of parliament who was detained without charge in 1965 and sent to a forced labour camp for 14 years. At great risk to herself, Jane Luyke hid negatives and prints of thousands of photos documenting the activities of the left-wing organization, the People’s Culture Institute (Lekra). Since the late 1950s, she and Oey Hay Djoen were central figures in the daily management of Lekra. Jane’s story reflects a journey from one ‘house’ to another, where each ‘house’ she lived in was home to many people who shared tales of aspirations, experiences, and struggles.
• Mustofa
  The photo in the frame is Mustofa. Mustofa was one of the victims in Klender Mall fire. A school kid at the time, Mustofa did not realize there was riot happening and that the mall was being burnt. His mother carried this photo during the exchange with Transformative Memory International Network delegates where she shared her memories of her son and the devastation of trying to retrieve his body from the morgue.
• Paying Respect to the Dead
  The two mothers, whose children were victims of the May 1998 tragedy, lay flowers on the unmarked graves of victims of Klender Mall fire. This particular plot contained 113 unmarked graves.
• The Monument of May 1998
  This monument, depicting a needle and thread suturing a wound, was conceptualized by cultural activist Eka Budiawan to commemorate the May 1998 tragedy. The May 1998 unrest erupted at the intersection of economic collapse and long-repressed political dissent, as student protests were met with state violence, unraveling the façade of Suharto’s authoritarian regime and culminating in his fall from power. Beneath the official narratives of reform, the riots exposed deep fractures in the nation’s social fabric—marked by orchestrated racial violence, particularly against Chinese Indonesians, and the haunting silence surrounding the gendered brutality of mass rapes and disappearances. The monument is located in Kampung Jati because in the area there were 426 people, including children, who were victims of the Klender Mall fire.
• Domestic Memory, Collective Memory - An International Gathering, Global Resistance
• Memory in Motion
  Moses Okot, youth activist from the Youth Advocacy Network in Uganda, led a group of TMIN-Sanata Dharma University workshop participants for a dance and memory exercise. Moses asked the participants to use the body to activate the memories in each and everyone of us and let those memories be felt, moved, and expressed through the motions.
• Participants of TMIN Indonesia Exchange workshop at Sanata Dharma University
  All of the participants of TMIN Indonesia Exchange 2025 gathered for a photo with faculty and students of Sanata Dharma University before engaging in a full-day workshop designed in collaboration with the Yogyakarta-based university. The photo was taken in the middle of a park with a large banyan tree called the Soekarno Banyan Tree. At the beginning of its history, this tree was planted by the first President of Indonesia, Soekarno, approximately 50-60 years ago, marking the establishment of Sanata Dharma University.
• Yogyakarta-based artist and co-curator for TMIN Indonesia Traveling Exhibit, Alit Ambara.
  Alit Ambara stood in front and in the midst of photo series created by Adrian Mulya. Adrian's photo series was one of the artworks exhibited at the TMIN Indonesia Traveling Exhibit titled 'Domestic Memory' and hosted at Ruang MES 56.
• Yogyakarta-based artist Sirin Farid Stevy
  Sirin Farid Stevy discussed his art works and memory work to the participants of Indonesia Knowledge Exchange at his studio, Liberate Studio. Prompted by the desire to understand what had happened to his grandfather in 1965, Farid Stevy traced where his grandfather might have been buried. This endeavour for Farid Stevy was a family mission, including his father and daughter in the tracing to make sure that the intergenerational transmission of family history and memory remain strong even in the face of state violence.
• Nation in Halt Series No. 8
  The poster's theme is about the conflict in Northern Ireland
• Nation in Halt Series No. 7
  The poster's theme is about the conflict in Northern Ireland
• Nation in Halt Series No. 6
  The poster's theme is about the conflict in Northern Ireland
• Nation in Halt Series No. 5 BW
  The poster's theme is about the conflict in Northern Ireland
• Nation in Halt Series No. 5
  The poster's theme is about the conflict in Northern Ireland
• Nation in Halt Series No. 4
  The poster's theme is about the conflict in Northern Ireland
• Nation in Halt Series No. 3
  The poster's theme is about the conflict in Northern Ireland