PENGGUNAAN SEJARAH LISAN DALAM HISTORIOGRAFI INDONESIA
ABSTRACT: The professional
historians tend to gather information more on the sources of archives and other
documentary materials than unwritten sources through interviews. However, since
the emergence of oral history in the 19th century in the West, the ongoing debates
have been occurring between the pros and the cons with the use of oral sources
for writing history. Nevertheless, the oral history activity continues,
beginning from its focus on elite experience as found in the United States in
1948, to the experience of ordinary people in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Advances in recording technology and new approaches of other social disciplines
such as antropology and sociology to oral history, have given a broad influence
on historians in third world countries, including Indonesia. Gathering
information from oral history, new data found and new historical analysis can
be made. This paper tries to see the use and development of oral history in
Indonesia. The first section will map the development of Indonesian historiography
very briefly and the problem of sources. The next section focuses on the
development of oral history in the West and then its influence in Indonesia.
The third section describes the use of oral history and its approach, and
finally concludes with some closing notes.
Penulis: Erwiza Erman
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologidd110070
