Hope and Despair: Contemporary Indonesian Painter Mahdi Abdullah exhibits Acehnese Culture in Melbourne
Karen Thomas
10.4225/03/5a025652cdf22
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/dataset/Hope_and_Despair_Contemporary_Indonesian_Painter_Mahdi_Abdullah_exhibits_Acehnese_Culture_in_Melbourne/5579446
For more than a century, generations of Acehnese people have suffered through conflict. The battles against Dutch occupation were particularly harsh in Aceh. This was followed by the Japanese invasion and internal conflicts that arose after World War II. Conflict raged again when Aceh's struggle for independence from Indonesia started in 1976. For decades, Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM, or the Free Aceh Movement) fought against the Indonesian military, and most outsiders were prohibited from visiting the province – that is, until the more recent tragedy.
2017-11-08 00:58:48
Aceh
Aceh paintings
Mahdi Abdullah
Sumatra visual arts
visual arts in Aceh, Sumatra
visual arts Indonesia
Visual Arts and Crafts not elsewhere classified
Musicology and Ethnomusicology