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Workshop: Storytelling for Human Rights

by PSR | October 26, 2026 | Announcements, Events, Featured | 0 Comments

Workshop Abstract: Stories can do more than inform—they can foster empathy, challenge prejudice, preserve lived experiences, and inspire action. Behind every human rights issue are individuals, families, and communities whose voices deserve to be heard with dignity,...

Siri Syarahan Umum PSR x Mandiri x Under The Banana Tree #8 – An Agenda for Sejarah Rakyat in Indonesia

by PSR | June 30, 2026 | Events, Featured, Lecture / Syarahan, Lecture / Syarahan | 0 Comments

Lecture Summary by Abdul Rahman Shah and edited by Hyojin Pak Professor John Rossa is a historian of modern Indonesia, particularly on the 1965 massacres. He teaches at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Joining him as the moderator during the lecture...

PPSK USM x PSR Webinar: Education via Family Memories of National Development: The Suara (((Pembangunan))) Project in Malaysia

by PSR | April 16, 2026 | Announcements, Events, Webinars | 0 Comments

Discussion Abstract: What does “development” sound like across generations? How do young people narrate development from the ground up? Suara ((( Pembangunan ))) (Malay language, stylised to mean “Voices of Development”) is a participatory oral history and sonic...

Development, Displacement and Democracy: The Place of Eviction Protests in Malaysia

by PSR | February 10, 2026 | Announcements, DEMO | 0 Comments

By Jeremy Lim Jiang Shen, DEMO Project Researcher and Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Asia This article is made possible with the support of APPGM-SDG Case Study Small Grants for Young Researchers Programme Abstract: Malaysia’s rapid urbanisation has...

Under The Banana Tree Archival Network x Scholar Chronicles x PSR Webinar #5 – Genocide in Indonesia and Beyond

by PSR | January 10, 2026 | Announcements, Events, Video, Webinars | 0 Comments

Abstract: Soe Tjen Marching joins Loh Kah Seng on the Scholar Chronicles podcast, co-organised with Under The Banana Tree Archival Network, to discuss the 1965-1966 mass killings in Indonesia. Soe Tjen will relate her efforts, along with others in Indonesia, to...

PSR x Under The Banana Tree Archival Network Webinar #4 – The Plantation Afterlives: Songs, Memories and Politics of Care

by PSR | November 19, 2025 | Events, Featured, Video, Webinars | 0 Comments

Discussion Abstract: This webinar takes as a point of departure from Gogularajaan Rajendran’s filmmaking practice at the intersection of Tamil indentured labourers and plantation folk songs. Through his exploration on the embodied archive of soundscape, memory, and...

Lee Kuan Yew and the PAP : Turning Singapore into a Portal for Israel in Southeast Asia – Amir Dastan

by PSR | November 10, 2025 | Announcements, Publications | 0 Comments

As Singapore marks the upcoming 71st anniversary of the People’s Action Party (PAP), established on 21 November 1954, former trade unionist, activist, and scholar Amir Dastan revisits Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy through a critical lens. In this book excerpt, he...

PSR x Under The Banana Tree Archival Network Public Webinar #3 – ‘Emotional’ Archives: Exploring Sense and Facts

by PSR | September 20, 2025 | Events, Featured, Video, Webinars | 0 Comments

https://youtu.be/KMnbMD-Mfwc Discussion Abstract: Archives are often assumed to contain facts, but what kinds of facts reside within them? This webinar explores the idea of “emotional facts” that emerge when engaging with archival materials. Moving beyond the archive...

PSR x Under The Banana Tree’s Archival Network Webinar #1 – Archiving Mo(ve)ments: Archival Praxis as Social Movements

by PSR | June 25, 2025 | Events, Video, Webinars | 0 Comments

https://youtu.be/mRk1ZPy-vGc Discussion Abstract: In exploring the evolving role of archives within social movements, the webinar focuses on the dialectic of moment and movement; how archival practices not only document historical struggles but also intervene in the...

[Forum PSR x PBMUM x NM] – Idea, Keintelektualan & Masyarakat: Merancang Masa Hadapan

by PSR | May 26, 2025 | Announcements, Events, Featured, Webinars | 0 Comments

Tarikh: 24 Mei 2025 (Sabtu) Masa: 9.00 pagi – 2.00 petang Tempat: Dewan Teratai, Fakulti Sains, Universiti Malaya Bersempena Sambutan 70 Tahun Penubuhan Persatuan Bahasa Melayu Universiti Malaya dengan kerjasama PSR serta Naratif Malaysia (NM), sebuah wacana...

Workshop: Storytelling for Human Rights

by PSR | October 26, 2026 | Announcements, Events, Featured | 0 Comments

PSR Webinar – Not Here, Not There: law, death and social disappearance in Southeast Asia

by PSR | August 17, 2026 | Events, Webinars | 0 Comments

Webinar Abstract: This webinar is concerned with the notion of social disappearance amongst those living in the peripheries of the law, specifically within the Singaporean and Malaysian legal context. It looks specifically at the experiences of death penalty...

PSR Webinar – Language & emotion in cultivating the Malay women leaders of rural Malaya, 1950-63

by PSR | July 29, 2026 | Events, Webinars | 0 Comments

Webinar Abstract: This webinar examines the history of RIDA’s national ‘kampong leaders’ programme, a series of experimental home economics classes for rural Malay women in Peninsular Malaya. The programme was a site of Cold War debates aimed to reform domestic labour...

Siri Syarahan Umum PSR x Mandiri x Under The Banana Tree #8 – An Agenda for Sejarah Rakyat in Indonesia

by PSR | June 30, 2026 | Events, Featured, Lecture / Syarahan, Lecture / Syarahan | 0 Comments

PPSK USM x PSR Webinar: Education via Family Memories of National Development: The Suara (((Pembangunan))) Project in Malaysia

by PSR | April 16, 2026 | Announcements, Events, Webinars | 0 Comments

Under The Banana Tree Archival Network x Scholar Chronicles x PSR Webinar #5 – Genocide in Indonesia and Beyond

by PSR | January 10, 2026 | Announcements, Events, Video, Webinars | 0 Comments

PSR x Under The Banana Tree Archival Network Webinar #4 – The Plantation Afterlives: Songs, Memories and Politics of Care

by PSR | November 19, 2025 | Events, Featured, Video, Webinars | 0 Comments

PSR x Under The Banana Tree Archival Network Public Webinar #3 – ‘Emotional’ Archives: Exploring Sense and Facts

by PSR | September 20, 2025 | Events, Featured, Video, Webinars | 0 Comments

PSR x Under The Banana Tree’s Archival Network Webinar #1 – Archiving Mo(ve)ments: Archival Praxis as Social Movements

by PSR | June 25, 2025 | Events, Video, Webinars | 0 Comments

[Forum PSR x PBMUM x NM] – Idea, Keintelektualan & Masyarakat: Merancang Masa Hadapan

by PSR | May 26, 2025 | Announcements, Events, Featured, Webinars | 0 Comments

PSR Webinar – Language & emotion in cultivating the Malay women leaders of rural Malaya, 1950-63

PPSK USM x PSR Webinar: Education via Family Memories of National Development: The Suara (((Pembangunan))) Project in Malaysia

Under The Banana Tree Archival Network x Scholar Chronicles x PSR Webinar #5 – Genocide in Indonesia and Beyond

PSR x Under The Banana Tree Archival Network Webinar #4 – The Plantation Afterlives: Songs, Memories and Politics of Care

PSR x Under The Banana Tree Archival Network Public Webinar #3 – ‘Emotional’ Archives: Exploring Sense and Facts

PSR x Under The Banana Tree’s Archival Network Webinar #1 – Archiving Mo(ve)ments: Archival Praxis as Social Movements

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Hari Ini Dalam Sejarah Rakyat

27 Jun 1950

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1950, telah tertubuhnya sebuah badan perjuangan bernama Kesatuan Malaya Merdeka yang bergerak di Indonesia. Badan ini telah ditubuhkan oleh Ibrahim Yaakob untuk menyambung perjuangan Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya (PKMM) yang terpaksa...

18 Jun 1948

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1948, Pesuruhjaya Tinggi penjajah British, Sir Edward Gent telah mengisytiharkan "Darurat" di seluruh Malaya. "Darurat" ini telah berlarutan selama 12 tahun. "Undang-undang Darurat" yang diumumkan telah memberi kuasa kepada polis dan tentera...

11 Ogos 1963

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1963, lebih 1,000 orang "amah" (pembantu rumah / pekerja domestik) telah berhimpun di ibu kota Kuala Lumpur dalam sebuah perarakan protes untuk menuntut hak mereka sebagai pekerja. Pekerja-pekerja domestik dari seluruh Malaya yang menjalankan...

23 Julai 1948

Hari ini dalam tahun 1948, Kerajaan penjajah British telah mengharamkan Parti Komunis Malaya (PKM) di Malaya dan Singapura. PKM telah diharamkan sebulan selepas penjajah mengisytiharkan undang-undang darurat di seluruh Malaya. Tetapi PKM bukanlah parti politik pertama...

20 Mei 1972

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1972, Kerajaan Malaysia telah mengumumkan persetujuan mereka terhadap tuntutan gerakan pekerja untuk menjadikan tarikh 1 Mei sebagai Hari Pekerja dan hari kelepasan am di seluruh Malaysia. Pengumuman itu telah dibuat oleh Timbalan Perdana...

13 Mac 1947

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1947, seorang pejuang kemerdekaan telah ditangkap dan ditahan oleh polis dan Special Branch Kerajaan Penjajah British di bawah Ordinan Hasutan atas tuduhan menghasut. Ordinan Hasutan (Sedition Ordinance) mula diperkenalkan oleh Kerajaan...

12 September 1947

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1947, "Malayan Teachers' Union", sebuah kesatuan sekerja peringkat kebangsaan untuk cikgu-cikgu sekolah di Malaya dan Singapura telah ditubuhkan. Pada 12 September 1947 di Kuala Lumpur, guru-guru di seluruh Malaya dan Singapura telah bersatu...

21 Mei 1949

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1949, sebuah pasukan tentera gerila Melayu anti-British telah didirikan di Kerdau, Temerloh, Pahang. Pasukan bersenjata khas Melayu ini telah dirasmikan sebagai Rejimen Ke-10 Tentera Pembebasan Nasional Malaya (TPNM). TPNM telah didirikan...

21 September 1974

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1974, aktivis-aktivis mahasiswa Universiti Malaya (UM) telah mengambil-alih kampus universiti daripada pentadbiran UM. Rampasan kuasa ini bertahan selama satu hari. Akhbar Berita Harian melaporkan: “Persatuan Mahasiswa Universiti Malaya...

22 Julai 1963

Hari ini dalam tahun 1963, Gabenor penjajah British di Sarawak, Sir Alexander Waddell telah melantik Stephen Kalong Ningkan sebagai Ketua Menteri Sarawak yang pertama, selepas parti beliau, Parti Perikatan Sarawak telah memenangi Pilihanraya Negeri Sarawak yang...

Nadi Insan

Nadi Insan, Bil. 52 (Ogos 1983)

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Nadi Insan, Bil. 51 (Julai 1983)

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Nadi Insan, Bil. 50 (Jun 1983)

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Nadi Insan, Bil. 49 (Mei 1983)

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Nadi Insan, Bil. 48 (Apr. 1983)

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Nadi Insan, Bil. 47 (Mac 1983)

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Special Projects

Archival Exhibition ‘Mari Ber-Lenso!’

Archival Exhibition 'Mari Ber-Lenso!' In conjunction with DeCoSEAS Fellowship Program, our program coordinator, Zikri Rahman, embarked in a three months archival research project with the Jakarta based music archive organisation, Irama Nusantara. In relation to that,...

[TERBITAN] TOKOH-TOKOH PEJUANG RAKYAT

Mempersembahkan buku terbitan baharu Pusat Sejarah Rakyat (PSR) berjudul Tokoh-Tokoh Pejuang Rakyat. Naskhah suntingan oleh Dr. Syed Husin Ali, Prof. Rahman Embong serta Zikri Rahman ini menampilkan 19 pengarang menulis tentang 27 tokoh pejuang politik dan aktivis...

2019 Submission Form: Said Zahari Young Journalist Award

During the anti-colonial struggle and the process of creating a new nation-state, newspapers played an important role in mobilising the youths of the time to take action and resist oppression. One important figure in the history of local journalism is journalist,...

Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2021

Tahun 2021, genap 60 tahun peristiwa mogok terpanjang dalam sejarah Malaysia melibatkan 115 pekerja akhbar Utusan Melayu. Peristiwa mogok lebih 100 hari ini penting dalam membulatkan tekad Said Zahari (1928 - 2016) selaku wartawan, penyair, aktivis serta sosok ahli...

Forum & Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2023/24

https://youtu.be/ceNIHoNFP8w?si=Riy6_4Fzn6yz9-CN Dijalankan buat tahun kelima berturut-turut, Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2023/24 yang dijalankan pada tarikh 16 Mac 2024 (Sabtu) pada jam 2:00 Petang secara dalam talian cukup hangat dengan penyertaan ketiga-tiga...

Ucapan Syed Husin Ali: Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2020

Teks ini adalah ucapan Prof. Dr. Syed Husin Ali pada majlis penyampian hadiah Said Zahari untuk pemenang Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2020 pada tanggal 27 Februari 2021, jam 10:00 pagi. UCAPAN UNTUK ANUGERAH SAID ZAHARI Bismillaahirrahmaanirrahiim....

Ucapan oleh Dr Syed Husin Ali bersempena Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2022

Diadakan buat tahun keempat berturut-turut sejak 2019, Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari ini yang dianjurkan oleh Pusat Sejarah Rakyat serta waris keluarga Said Zahari ini melihat kepada karya yang ditulis oleh para wartawan sepanjang tahun 2022. Seramai 14 wartawan...

Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2020

Tahun lalu, Pusat Sejarah Rakyat melancarkan sebuah anugerah untuk wartawan muda sebagai penghormatan kepada mendiang Said Zahari, wartawan dan aktivis kebebasan media yang tidak kenal lelah. Pemenang anugerah ini pada tahun 2019 adalah jurnalis Malaysia yang berbasis...

Book Launching & Discussion : Growing Up in Malaysia – Musings of A Common Man – Khong Kim Hoong

In conjunction with the publication of the memoir entitled Growing Up in Malaysia: Musings of a Common Man by Dr Khong Kim Hoong; academician, former student activist, and PSR's Director, a book launching and discussion was held on 25th October 2024 at HELP...

Ucapan oleh Prof. Dr Syed Husin Ali bersempena Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2022 serta pelancaran antologi Puisi Dari Penjara

Teks ini merupakan ucapan oleh Prof. Dr. Syed Husin Ali bagi mengumumkan pemenang Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2022 serta pelancaran buku Puisi Dari Penjara oleh Said Zahari pada tanggal 19 Mac 2022 jam 2 petang. Pada tahun ini seorang wartawan wanita dari...