What is Indonesia?

This is event is sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and takes place on the Berkeley campus. Since 1997 Indonesians have had mounting reasons to doubt their national project. Not to mention the deformation of national identity attributable to Soeharto. "We must begin again from zero," said Semar in Republik Bagong, a comedy-drama that played to packed houses in Jakarta in 2001. Zero? Surely not. But if it is not zero, what is Indonesia?