ДИСКУРСЫ ЗАБВЕНИЯ В ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЙ ПОЛИТИКЕ ВОСТОЧНОЙ АЗИИ: ИНДОНЕЗИЯ И ЯПОНИЯ

Abstract

The article examines the tactics of forgetting as a strategic instrument of the politics of memory of East Asian countries. These types of forgetting are explicated in cases of Indonesia and Japan. In the case of Indonesia, the phenomenon of forgetting is manifested in the historical memory of the violence against the political rivals of the ruling regime and ethnic minorities in the 1960s and 1980s. In the case of Japan, the phenomenon of forgetting was studied in the politics of memory of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan — South Korea bilateral relations. To reveal the specifics of the approach of East Asian countries to the implementation of their politics of memory, the typology of forgetting proposed by the English sociologist Paul Connerton was used. The authors demonstrated specific features of the East Asian approach to the politics of memory. This research revealed similarities and differences between Japanese and Indonesian approaches to forgetting. Analysis of these cases helped to identify difficulties of East Asian countries to find mutual understanding in issues of interpretation of their historical past. The possibility of reaching mutual agreements in the medium-term agenda is not visible.