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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。...

Tentang Ingatan Dan Waktu: Perbualan Tiga Generasi oleh Nur Nadia Lukmanulhakim

by PSR | March 21, 2025 | Announcements, Featured, Suara Pembangunan | 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...

Siri Syarahan Umum Pusat Sejarah Rakyat #6 – Syed Shahir Syed Mohamud

by PSR | May 9, 2024 | Featured, Lecture / Syarahan, Lecture / Syarahan | 0 Comments

Siri Syarahan Umum Pusat Sejarah Rakyat yang diadakan buat kali keenam ini disampaikan oleh Saudara Syed Shahir Syed Mohamud, mantan Presiden Kongres Kesatuan Sekerja Malaysia (2004 - 2010) yang juga merupakan aktivis veteran gerakan kesatuan sekerja dengan...

[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

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 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 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...

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...

28 Mei 1954

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1954, seramai 8 orang mahasiswa Universiti Malaya (UM) telah ditangkap oleh polis di bawah Ordinan Hasutan (kini Akta Hasutan) di atas perintah kerajaan penjajah British. Pada jam 5 pagi tanggal 28 Mei 1954, lapan orang aktivis mahasiswa UM...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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

Introduction to PSR Oral History Project

Oral history is about telling stories and listening to stories and documenting and disseminating these stories. Such stories, we have come to recognize, are not just individual histories, or family histories, but belong to the rich and intricate fabric of national...

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....

ANTOLOGI PUISI DARI PENJARA KARYA SAID ZAHARI DAN GETARAN SEJARAH

Teks ini merupakan ucapan oleh Profesor Emeritus Abdul Rahman Embong, Editor Puisi Dari Penjara (Edisi Baharu) bagi pelancaran buku Puisi Dari Penjara oleh Said Zahari serta pengumuman Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2022 pada tanggal 19 Mac 2022 jam 2 petang. 1....

Jalan Cerita – Sebuah Projek Pemetaan Budaya Bersama Buku Jalanan Chow Kit

Projek pemetaan budaya Jalan Cerita ini merupakan usahasama Pusat Sejarah Rakyat (PSR) serta para guru dan pelajar di Buku Jalanan Chow Kit (BJCK). Ia didanai oleh The Hai-O Arts & Culture Grants melibatkan beberapa siri bengkel pengumpulan maklumat dan sejarah...

Bengkel Sejarah Lisan – Suara ((( Pembangunan ))): Sejarah Sonik Pembangunan Nasional di Malaysia

FOR ENGLISH VERSION, KINDLY SCROLL DOWN: Penerangan Projek: Bengkel Sejarah Lisan - Suara ((( Pembangunan ))): Sejarah Sonik Pembangunan Nasional di Malaysia ini merupakan sebuah projek penyelidikan perintis bertujuan untuk menghasilkan dokumentasi cerita tentang...

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,...

PANGGILAN TERBUKA – Anugerah Wartawan Muda Said Zahari 2023 / 24

Seperti apa kita mahu merenung semula tahun 2023 pada masa akan datang? Bagaimanakah para wartawan di seantero dunia sedang menangkap nuansa dan cabaran yang wujud di kelilingnya hari ini? Dari beragam konflik politik yang berlaku; perang Rusia – Ukraine yang masih...

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,...

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,...

Bengkel Sejarah Lisan 28 Mei 2022

Pada 28 Mei 2022 lalu, pihak Pusat Sejarah Rakyat bersama dengan Jabatan Sejarah & Tamadun UIA, VIRTUE...