Missing millions: Java’s 1944–45 famine in Indonesia’s historiography
By: Eng, Pierre Van Der
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BookPublisher: Modern Asian Studies Description: 58(2), Mar, 2024: p.563-583.Subject(s): Famine, Malnutrition, Java, Indonesia, Japanese occupation
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Modern Asian StudiesSummary: This article asks why the victims of the 1944–45 famine in Indonesia’s main island of Java are largely missing from Indonesia’s public memory and historiography. It surveys relevant studies, to conclude that there is no consensus on the human toll of the famine. The article then traces the origins of an initial estimate of four million mentioned by Indonesia’s authorities to data on mortality and births uncovered in late 1945. It discusses the outcomes of a recent study that analysed these data to re-estimate excess deaths of, respectively, 0.7 and 1.2 million during 1944 and 1945. The difference with the initial estimate is that it also included unborn children and an unsubstantiated approximation of victims in 1946. The article analyses the likely reasons why the millions of victims of the famine went missing from Indonesia’s public memory and historiography during the 1950s and 1960s.- Reproduced
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/missing-millions-javas-194445-famine-in-indonesias-historiography/97C1382A9684E3F3E1B46A8A6DFBA367
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This article asks why the victims of the 1944–45 famine in Indonesia’s main island of Java are largely missing from Indonesia’s public memory and historiography. It surveys relevant studies, to conclude that there is no consensus on the human toll of the famine. The article then traces the origins of an initial estimate of four million mentioned by Indonesia’s authorities to data on mortality and births uncovered in late 1945. It discusses the outcomes of a recent study that analysed these data to re-estimate excess deaths of, respectively, 0.7 and 1.2 million during 1944 and 1945. The difference with the initial estimate is that it also included unborn children and an unsubstantiated approximation of victims in 1946. The article analyses the likely reasons why the millions of victims of the famine went missing from Indonesia’s public memory and historiography during the 1950s and 1960s.- Reproduced
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/missing-millions-javas-194445-famine-in-indonesias-historiography/97C1382A9684E3F3E1B46A8A6DFBA367
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