Imagining ‘East Timor’

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Arena Magazine 4

Benedict Anderson

Apr 1993

Abstract:

Why has Indonesia’s attempt to absorb East Timor failed? And how does one explain the very rapid development of Timorese nationalism since 1975? Benedict Anderson, author of Imagined Communities, argues that Indonesia cannot imagine the East Timorese as Indonesians. Their relations with them are those of colonizer and colonized, producing East Timorese nationalism as Dutch colonialism once produced Indonesian nationalism.

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