Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2022 (IJCAH 2022)

Problems in ‘Accessing’ Colonial Archives for Indonesian History Department Student

Authors
Lillyana Mulya1, *, Arif Rahman Bramantya2
1Archival Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2Archives and Records Management, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: l.mulya@uva.n
Corresponding Author
Lillyana Mulya
Available Online 19 March 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_172How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Accessing colonial archives; student researcher and Indonesian History
Abstract

Historical research in Indonesia, especially during the colonial era, cannot be separated from the Dutch colonial archives. However, not many researchers or students were interested in using colonial sources for various reasons. Precisely with colonial archives, researchers will find knowledge both written and implied through analysis of colonial sources to strengthen research. The writing of this article uses an archival approach and qualitative descriptive methods and analysis of archival guides and digital innovations to access the Dutch East Indies colonial archives as an alternative to expand the research topics of history students in Indonesia. Finally, colonial archives as historical sources provide flexibility for researchers to explore, relate, and critique the information contained in colonial archives. Therefore, researchers or students who are conducting research in the colonial era must take advantage of the archives of the Dutch colonial government because without them we do not know anything about the past or events that occurred in the colonial era.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2022 (IJCAH 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
19 March 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_172
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_172How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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