Abstract
Focused on a children's drawing contest sponsored by a state museum, this article explores the child as witness, a figure with wide currency in Indonesia in the post-Suharto period. It argues that a visual ideology of innocence lends children's images a redemptive power to contain the destabilizing effects of violent mass media images and of political rupture more generally. Effaced in the positing of the child's eye as an ideal authentic lens through which the nation might see itself and remember its history are the complex mediations that shape children's images and the adult desires and anxieties that inform the construction of the child as witness.
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