Action Group rejects the Recycling of Indonesian History: Truth Monopoly attempts

Jakarta – The Indonesian Historical Openness Alliance Group rejects the latest version of Indonesian rewriting plans for history. They requested that the project be stopped immediately. It was transferred by the chairman of the Action Marzuki Darusman in the RDPU with the House of Representatives Commission X, in the Senayan Parliamentary Complex, Central Jakarta, Monday (5/19/2025). During the meeting, Marzuki read the statement of action. “This said it rejected the Indonesian ‘official history’ writing project by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Indonesia,” Marzuki said. Browse to continue the content, he said the recycling of Indonesian history as a form of government monopoly. Marzuki judged that the rewriting efforts of history as a step to design the past of the Indonesian population. “This action is a subtle way for the government to control people’s thinking and monopolize the truth of the history of the nation,” he explained. Marzuki said the historical narrative that would be built by the state is a form of political fiction used as the basis of the legitimacy of power. According to him, the historical project opened space for the rise of authoritarian and even totalitarian practices. “The political spectrum of all government power is held and implemented, in a political reach whose outer boundaries are estimated by authoritarianism on the one hand and to the other,” he said. “Totalitarianism is not an authoritarian congestion, on the contrary, authoritarianism is not a moderate totalitarianism that can be denied and prevented by denial, and a series of verbal narratives by the government,” he continued. Marzuki said the historical rewriting project was an action of a betrayal of the basic understanding of the people who became the basis of the nation. In addition, he said it also destroyed collective memory about the power of the nation. “It is indeed the people who have saved the Indonesian population from the incarceration of colonialism, the struggle of ideologicism and authoritarianism dominance,” he explained. “The government is not the only single interpretation of the history of the nation. The voice of the people, as the victims of government actions and policies should not be eliminated to explain its historical experience,” he continued. Marzuki requested that the writing of Indonesian history not just as a state project. However, he said, it remains a democratic open space. “The slightest history of history by power, let alone another single Indonesian history by the Ministry of Culture must be stopped and rejected,” he said. On the same occasion, the Chairman of Commission X said Hetifah Shaifudian that his party has never discussed the Indonesian history rewriting project with the Ministry of Culture. Hetifah does not yet know the process of the project that was completed before August 17, 2025. “To be honest, we have never met personally and discussed what exactly will be revised or how the process is, and so on,” Hetifah said. In addition, a member of the Commission X of the PDIP Faction Mercy Barends said that the Ministry of Culture has never sent a report regarding the project. Mercy claims to have just learned of the project’s plan on social media. Therefore, he claimed that he could not talk much about the rejection delivered by the action. However, he said the rejection would be a record of commission X. “We haven’t received any official document yet, so let’s be possible today to give a number of insight into a number of this history,” Mercy said. Meanwhile, member of the House of Representatives Commission X, Bonnie Triyana, expressed his concern about the project. He acknowledged that he was concerned that the historical rewriting project could generate the deskarnoization narrative. “In the end, I’m somewhat worried about the deskarnoization story,” Bonnie said in the Indonesian parliament building. According to him, the 1st president of the Republic of Indonesia Soekarno was often the target of systematic efforts. Especially, he said, to undermine his character and role in the history of the nation. “Honestly, Sukarno, for decades, he not only belonged to the Indonesian Democratic Party of struggle, but belonged to the Indonesian population, humiliated, broken down, killed by his characters,” Bonnie explained. “And I think it’s also important for us to note. Stories like these should no longer exist in the historical writing project. Gratitude if there is no,” he continued. Bonnie emphasized that the project should be able to place each character proportionally. He said in particular that he should be with a critical record that could be a teaching for the younger generation. “We want to put people who are appropriate in their position, with all kinds of plates to be studied by the younger generation,” he said. Also watch the video: Fadli Zon reveals reasons for recycling Indonesian history (AMW/EVA) HOEGENG Awards 2025 Read the inspiring story of the exemplary police candidate here