Konstruksi Historis Perang Diponegoro dalam Karya M. Yamin: Studi Historiografi

Abstract

As a modern state that emerged in the mid-twentieth century, Indonesia required historical narratives to ignite the spirit of revolution, like embers burning amid the return of foreign powers following the defeat of fascist Japan in World War II. The study entitled “The History of the Dipanegara War, Hero of Indonesian Independence: A Historiographical Study” analyzes Muhammad Yamin’s book and its reconstruction the history of the Dipanegara War/Java War in the post-independence period. The research question is: How are Cultuurgebundenheid, Group Prejudice, and Zeitgeist (the spirit of the age) manifested in the narrative of Muhammad Yamin’s Sejarah Peperangan Dipanegara, Pahlawan Kemerdekaan Indonesia?. This historiographical research employs a library research method within a qualitative research framework. The research procedures are as follows: first, locating Yamin’s book on the history of the Dipanegara War and collecting other relevant sources from various libraries in Padang and regional libraries in the researcher’s area. The study concludes that Yamin’s narrative of the Java War represents a manifestation of Indonesian nationalism. It portrays the resistance led by Dipanegara as a nineteenth-century Indonesian War of Independence. This narrative cannot be separated from the author’s background, the spirit of the independence era, and the prevailing anti-colonial sentiment.