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

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

Lecture Abstract: A common concern for historians writing in the genre of people's history, social history, and history from below has been the history of non-elites. The Indian "subaltern studies" group, for example, defined its goal in the early 1980s as the study...

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, Oral History, Publications | 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 by 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...

泰菲民间博物馆及档案馆：记录抵抗作为一种抵抗作者李成钢

by PSR | April 7, 2025 | Announcements, Featured | 0 Comments

一月中旬，出席由人民历史中心（Pusat Sejarah Rakyat）、英国布里斯托大学历史系、荷兰国际社会历史研究所和马大社科院联办的工作坊，工作坊主题是“东南亚劳工史和社会史的纪录与传播”。席中，除了有上述四个单位的学者、研究员外，也有来自泰国、菲律宾、印尼、新加坡和马来西亚不同组织的参与者。各组织代表在工作坊中分享他们收集史料、建立档案、传播资讯的理念，以及具体操作方法，同时也讨论实际个案，谈论彼此如何松动既有的官方叙事，争夺历史诠释权。笔者从中受益良多，也得到很大的精神鼓舞，在此略记关于泰菲组织的一些工作内容。...

Siri Syarahan Umum PSR x Mandiri x Under The Banana Tree – 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

Siri Syarahan Umum PSR x UoB x IISH #7 – Transnational Activism: From Bandung to Now by Professor Su Lin Lewis

by PSR | January 21, 2025 | Featured, Lecture / Syarahan, Lecture / Syarahan | 0 Comments

Organised by Pusat Sejarah Rakyat (PSR), History Department, University of Bristol & International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, we are proud to present a public lecture entitled 'Transnational Activism in the Bandung Era'. The lecture is presented by...

Workshop: Documenting and Disseminating – Histories of Labour and Social History in Southeast Asia

by PSR | January 21, 2025 | Announcements, Events, Featured | 0 Comments

Workshop Abstract: The region is currently witnessing a flowering of new cultural organisations devoted to engaging the public with history that challenges official historical narratives and recovers marginalised histories. This includes the collection of oral...

Pameran Arkib DEMO: 15 Tahun Protes di Malaysia

by PSR | May 15, 2024 | DEMO, Events, Featured | 0 Comments

Bersempena Kongres BERSIH yang julung kali diadakan, turut berlangsung adalah Pameran Arkib DEMO: 15 Tahun Protes di Malaysia yang merupakan usaha merakam detik protes dan pergerakan sosial di dalam rentang tahun 2007 - 2022. Menerusi dokumentasi sejarah lisan protes...

[Webinar] WRITING HIS OWN CULTURE: AKIYA – a postcolonial indigenous storyteller on Orang Asli enslavement in the Malay World (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AASC19FQEQ4 Date: 21st June 2021 (Monday)Time: 8:30pmPlatform: Zoom & FB Live Abstract: This discussion explores a postcolonial indigenous storyteller from the historic margins of the Malaysian nation-state- AKIYA. Akiya (Mahat Anak...

[Webinar] “Chinese Go Home” – The Malayan Emergency between history and memory (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nw6sRY7gRI Speaker:Dr. Rachel Leow is a Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) in Modern East Asian History at the University of Cambridge, and author of Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia. Date: 25th May 2021Time:...

[Webinar] Student Activism: Reclaiming the Narrative (video)

Date: 20 April 2021Time: 8:30pmPlatform: Zoom Abstract: Student activism is not a new topic of interest for advocates of reform and groups working towards a more empowered electorate. In 2020, Imagined Malaysia undertook a research project to write and present a...

[Webinar] Representation of Cosmopolitan Malays in 1930s Newspapers (video)

Date: 23 February 2021Time: 8:30pmPlatform: Zoom and FB Live Speaker: Razan RosmanCommentator: Dr. Simon SoonModerator: Adriana Nordin Manan Abstract: The term “sporting spirit” was largely used by Kajai and people in Utusan Melayu back in the 1930s to describe a...

[Webinar] Stories of History from a Borneo Longhouse: Genre and Method (video)

Date: 23 February 2021Time: 8:30pmPlatform: Zoom and FB Live Abstract: I was given by chance three historical narratives on cassette to listen to while visiting my husband’s longhouse at the edge of the Kelabit highlands in 2010. I wasn’t looking for a subject to...

[Webinar] Oral history, testimony, and memory (video)

Date: Tuesday, 19 January 2021Time: 8:30pm to 10:00pmVenue: Online Oral history is more than just a tool for collecting historical “data”. Through conversation with a narrator, oral historians collect the narrator’s voice, testimony, life experience, emotion, and...

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Hari Ini Dalam Sejarah Rakyat

27 Mei 1966

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1966, sekumpulan mahasiswa di Universiti Malaya (UM) telah mengasaskan Sudut Pidato (Speakers’ Corner) di dalam kampus UM di Kuala Lumpur. Sudut Pidato yang asal terletak di luar pintu belakang perpustakaan UM sekarang. Setahun kemudian,...

29 April 1915

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1915, telah tercetusnya “Perang Tok Janggut” melawan penjajah British di Kelantan. Selepas Penjanjian British-Siam pada tahun 1909, pentadbiran negeri Kelantan, Kedah, Terengganu dan Perlis telah diserahkan kepada penjajah British yang mula...

2 Februari 1963

Hari ini dalam tahun 1963, lebih 100 orang aktivis kiri, aktivis kesatuan buruh dan pemimpin politik pembangkang telah ditahan dalam operasi besar-besaran yang dinamakan "Operation Coldstore". Operation Cold Store telah dilancarkan mulai 2 Februari 1963 oleh Kerajaan...

1 Julai 1948

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1948, Ketua API (Angkatan Pemuda Insaf), Ahmad Boestamam telah ditangkap oleh penjajah British di bawah Undang-undang Darurat. Beliau telah ditangkap di kampungnya di Perak, 13 hari selepas penjajah British mengisytiharkan darurat di seluruh...

17 Januari 1948

Genap 68 tahun dulu pada 17 Januari 1948, Mohamed Mustaza, bekas Penolong Setiausaha Agung PKMM (Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya) yang berasal dari Taiping, Perak telah menubuhkan sebuah parti baru bernama PERAM -- Pemuda Radikal Melayu. Parti ini ditubuhkan untuk...

20 Julai 1961

Hari ini dalam tahun 1961, seramai 115 orang pekerja & wartawan Utusan Melayu telah melancarkan mogok bagi memperjuangkan kebebasan akhbar dan membantah pengambilalihan akhbar Utusan Melayu oleh parti pemerintah, UMNO. Wartawan dan pekerja-pekerja kilang Utusan...

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...

2 Mac 1950

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1950, seorang pejuang kemerdekaan berusia 17 tahun telah dihukum gantung sampai mati oleh kerajaan penjajah British. Rosli Dhoby merupakan seorang anak muda keturunan Melanau yang berasal dari Kampung Pulo, Sibu, Sarawak. Beliau merupakan...

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...

22 Februari 1947

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1947, telah berlangsung sebuah persidangan besar pertubuhan-pertubuhan politik kiri Melayu di Kuala Lumpur bertempat di Ibu Pejabat PKMM (Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya) di Batu Road (kini Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman). Lebih dari 100...

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Nadi Insan, Bil. 34 (Feb. 1982)

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Nadi Insan, Bil. 32 (Dis. 1981)

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Special Projects

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...

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...

Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2019

Dalam perjuangan anti penjajahan dan pembentukan negara baru, akhbar memainkan peranan penting dalam menggerakkan kaum muda untuk mengambil tindakan dan menentang ketidakadilan. Salah seorang tokoh penting kewartawanan tanah air adalah wartawan, penyair, dan aktivis...

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...

Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2022

2022 tahun yang cukup berwarna - hitam, putih atau kelabu - bagi kita semua di Malaysia. Dengan Covid yang masih membelenggu serta krisis sosio-politik yang dialami, begitu banyak perkara yang membangkitkan rasa ingin tahu dan keterlibatan masyarakat. Sekaligus,...

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...

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,...

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...

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....