Abstract
This chapter discusses sites of memory on the island of Buru and how former political prisoners use specific places to remember the past and communicate their memories to others. The use of sites is particularly important in a context where there are no public commemorations or monuments, and where the events of 1965 and their aftermath remain suppressed. Setiawan thus argues that sites represent an avenue for the transmission of memories, through which former prisoners exercise their agency, imbuing spaces with meaning and allowing people to connect with a distant past. As such, sites have the power to mobilize postmemorial work, bringing the past to the present even when formal memorials are absent.
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