Bridges of Friendship: Reflections on Indonesia's Early Independence and Australia's Volunteer Graduate Scheme (Herb Feith Translation Series)
by: Anne McCarthy (Author, Editor),Ailsa Thomson Zainuddin(Editor)
Publisher:Monash University Publishing
Publication Date: 1 April 2017
Language:English
Print Length:336 pages
ISBN-10:9781925495225
ISBN-13:9781925495225
Book Description
This volume casts new light on the intercultural and personal ties among Indonesians and Australians in the context of the post-war rise of secular volunteering and the unique political and social conditions then prevailing in the newly formed Indonesian Republic. It brings together previously unpublished manuscripts by Betty Feith, who has combined teaching and lecturing with a lifelong involvement in church and humanitarian service, and Kurnianingrat Ali Sastroamijoyo, an educator who worked extensively in English language teaching and training, and someone who took an active part in the Indonesian Revolution. It comprises three parts. The first two parts include substantive works of historical narrative and memoir. The third, a collection of letters. The book provides a birds-eye view of the ethos and workings of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme, an initiative under which Australian graduates were employed in the Indonesian civil service. Bettys nuanced and insightful narrative reflects her intimate involvement in the inception and running of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme. Researchers will be interested in the extensive bibliographic references to records of the Scheme contained in Putting in a Stitch or Two. Kurnianingrats reminiscences, Other Worlds in the Past, offer insights into Indonesian social and cultural history at a critical time for the nation, as historian Jean Gelman Taylor observes, at the same time as they chronicle Kurnianingrats own experiences and perspective. Kurnianingrats memoirs include a fascinating and moving account of daily life in occupied Yogyakarta during the struggle for independence against the Dutch. A common thread in Other Worlds in the Past and Putting in a Stitch or Two relates to the government inspectorate in Jakarta where, in the 1950s, Indonesians Kurnianingrat and Harumani Rudolph-Sudirdjo formed lasting friendships with Australian volunteer graduates, Betty Feith and Ailsa Thomson Zainuddin. The mutual interests, connections and commitments among this circle of friends are illustrated in the final section of Bridges of Friendship, in which extracts of correspondence exchanged between Kurnianingrat, Ailsa and Harumani reveal the contributions made by Ailsa and Harumani to Kurnianingrats writing project.
About the Author
About the Author Ann McCarthy was raised in New Zealand, and has a background in archival work at Archives New Zealand and also at the e-Scholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, where she was a member of the team that worked on the archival records of Diane Elizabeth Barwick, anthropologist, historian and Indigenous rights supporter (available from http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/barw/barw.htm). Ann studied history and English at Victoria University of Wellington, and her Masters thesis, completed at the University of Melbourne under Patricia Grimshaw and Katherine Ellinghaus, was a postcolonial analysis of an early novel by a Native American woman – Cogewea, by Mourning Dove (Okanogan). Ann’s current PhD project, which is informed by the work of philosopher Agnes Heller, explores the emotional households of fictional characters, drawing on two 1940s Australian novels.Ailsa Thomson Zainuddin is a writer and scholar who has specialised in the history of education. Born in Melbourne in 1927, Ailsa studied English and history at Melbourne University, and received her MA for a thesis entitled “The Bulletin and Australian Nationalism”. In 1954, Ailsa travelled to Jakarta under the Volunteer Graduate Scheme, working at the English Language Inspectorate. In 1965 she joined the Faculty of Education, Monash University, where she carried out pioneering work in relation to Southeast Asian history of education, and the history of education for girls and women. Ailsa was awarded a PhD from Monash University in 1983 for her centenary history of Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew, the school she herself attended, and which she maintained an association with for over fifty years. Ailsa’s published works also include A Short History of Indonesia, and an Indonesian cookery book. She retired from Monash in 1992. Ailsa and her husband Zainu’ddin (Minangkabau), whom she married in 1954, have two daughters.
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