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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...

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。...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

1 Mei 1973

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1973, kaum pekerja Malaysia buat pertama kali merayakan Hari Pekerja sebagai hari kelepasan am di seluruh Malaysia, hasil dari perjuangan kaum pekerja. Walaupun Hari Pekerja pada 1 Mei sudah mula disambut di Malaya sejak tahun 1921, hanya...

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...

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Nadi Insan, Bil. 52 (Ogos 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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Special Projects

[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...

Majlis Memperingati Allahyarham Profesor Dr Syed Husin Ali

Pada 21 September 2024, sebuah Majlis Memperingati Allahyarham Profesor Syed Husin Ali telah diadakan di Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Sebagai sarjana aktivis tersohor di bidang sains sosial, Dr. Syed Husin Ali juga merupakan seorang insan luar biasa. Seperti...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...