Talking Indonesia Podcast: ‘Kramat’ and the Politics of Indonesian History
The winged gate of Sendang Duwur in Lamongan, East Java | Photo by Panggah Ardiyansyah
In this episode of Talking Indonesia, the host Dr. Tito Ambyo interviews Panggah Ardiansyah, a research associate at the University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute, whose research challenges us to read Indonesian antiquities through Indonesian epistemologies. Panggah asserts that the concept of kramat—sacred sites imbued with ancestral power—offers better tools for understanding sites like Sendang Duwur than the binaries inherited from colonial scholarship.
This episode was produced by NYSEAN Partner, Talking Indonesia.
