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Making a spectacle of the colony: Producing and consuming Pasar Gambir in the Dutch East Indies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2022

Esti Asmira
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This article examines the first decade of Pasar Gambir as an annual week-long festival held in the Dutch East Indies in conjunction with Queen Wilhelmina's birthday. As a study of colonial spectacles, it seeks to address the dearth of scholarly literature that analyses how the Western exhibitionary complex functioned in a colonised environment. In producing Pasar Gambir, the Dutch colonisers did not adopt this exhibitionary complex in its entirety. As such, Pasar Gambir assumed the hybridised form of a jaarmarkt-tentoonstelling (fair-cum-exhibition) imbued with market-like characteristics. This reality distinguished Pasar Gambir from its metropolitan equivalents by involving the colonised not only as objectified exhibits on display, but also as active consumers and participants of the spectacle. Ultimately, this article argues that the hybridity of Pasar Gambir undercut Dutch efforts to use it as a vehicle that illustrated and vindicated their claims of benevolence and racial supremacy. Through the Malay language press’ appropriation of the spectacle to underscore the moral superiority of the colonised and the Indies Chinese’ successful boycott of Pasar Gambir in 1925, colonised communities contested the empire-building messages that the Dutch sought to convey through Pasar Gambir and inscribed their own nationalist readings and interpretations of the annual jaarmarkt-tentoonstelling instead.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 1-2 , June 2022 , pp. 31 - 56
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore, 2022

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Footnotes

The author would like to thank Sai Siew Min, Timothy P. Barnard, and Maitrii Aung-Thwin for their guidance, input, and encouragement throughout various iterations of this article. Their support made the publication of this article—eight years after it was first written—possible. All translations from Indonesian and Dutch are mine unless otherwise indicated.

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2 ‘Pasar Gambir’, BN, 19 May 1921; Verslag Nopens de Pasar-Gambir Gehouden op het Koningsplein te Weltevreden van 28 Augustus–2 September 1906 [Report concerning the Pasar Gambir held in the Koningsplein at Weltevreden from 28 Aug.–2 Sept. 1906], p. 5. The week-long 1906 Pasar Gambir was organised on a much smaller scale, with the ‘Kampong Keradjinan’ (Arts and Crafts Village) as its main exhibition.

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25 Bloembergen, Colonial spectacles, pp. 224–5, 391.

26 Ibid.; Vandenbosch, The Dutch East Indies, p. 64; Schmutzer, Dutch colonial policy, p. 17.

27 Penders, Selected documents on colonialism and nationalism, p. 64.

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31 ‘Mengoendjoengi Pasar Gambir II’ [Visiting Pasar Gambir II], Bintang Hindia (henceforth BH), 8 Sept. 1923.

32 ‘Uitslag van de padi-tentoonstelling’ [Outcome of the paddy exhibition], Het Nieuws, 29 Aug. 1924; ‘Tentoonstelling beras di Gambir’ [Rice exhibition in Gambir], Sin Po (henceforth SP), 2 Sept. 1925; ‘Pasar Gambir sebagi tempat berladjar’ [Pasar Gambir as a place to learn], SP, 27 Aug. 1930.

33 ‘Roewangan klas dalem Pasar Gambir’ [A classroom in Pasar Gambir], SP, 3 Sept. 1930; 1925 Pasar Gambir Programma (Melajoe), pp. 16–17; 1928 Pasar Gambir Programma (Melajoe), n.p.

34 Bloembergen, Colonial spectacles, p. 225.

35 Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal knowledge and imperial power: Race and the intimate in colonial rule (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), p. 24.

36 The three population groups articulated in the Netherlands East Indies Constitution of 1854 placed Europeans at the apex of the colonial hierarchy followed by the Foreign Orientals. The Inlanders or the natives occupied the lowest rung of society. As the local Indies population deemed ‘Inlanders’ as pejorative, they adopted the Sanskrit-derived term ‘Bumiputera’ (son of the land or soil) as a more acceptable terminology to collectively refer to the indigenous peoples (orang asli) of the archipelago.

37 1924 Pasar Gambir Programma (Hollandsch Tekst), p. 9; Charles A. Coppel, Studying ethnic Chinese in Indonesia (Singapore: Singapore Society of Asian Studies, 2002), pp. 140, 157.

38 Patricia Morton, Hybrid modernities: Architecture and representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000), p. 119; Hoffenberg, An empire on display, p. 29; Alayna Wilburn, ‘Imperial knowledge and cultural display: Representations of colonial India in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century London’ (MA diss., University of Kentucky, 2008), pp. 22, 33; Bennett, ‘The exhibitionary complex’, p. 92.

39 1926 Pasar Gambir Programma (Melajoe), p. 5.

40 ‘Pasar Gambir’, BN, 19 Aug. 1921.

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42 ‘Tentoonstelling Pasar Gambir’ [Pasar Gambir Exhibition], KM, 6 Sept. 1921.

43 Hoffenberg, An empire on display, p. 28; Bloembergen, Colonial spectacles, p. 2.

44 Marieke Bloembergen, ‘Van Kampong tot Kunst? Nederlandse koloniale mensvertoningen op de wereldtentoonstellingen, 1883–1931’ [From village to art? Dutch colonial human displays at the world exhibitions, 1883–1931], in De Exotische Mens: Andere culturen als amusement (The exotic human: Other cultures as amusement), ed. Patrick Allegaert and Bert Sliggers (Tielt: Lannoo, 2009), p. 115.

45 Ibid., pp. 123–5.

46 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination culture: Tourism, museums, and heritage (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), p. 118.

47 ‘Sport di Pasar Gambir’ [Sports in Pasar Gambir], BH, 6 Sept. 1924; ‘Voetbal di Pasar Gambir’ [Football in Pasar Gambir], SP, 7 Sept. 1929.

48 Joost Coté, ‘“To see is to know”: The pedagogy of the Colonial Exhibition, Semarang, 1914’, Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education 36, 1 (2000): 364.

49 Lukito, ‘Colonial exhibition and a laboratory of modernity’, p. 100.

50 ‘Pasar Gambir’, KM, 27 Aug. 1924; ‘Ke Pasar Gambir’ [To Pasar Gambir], KM, 3 Sept. 1929; Robert W. Rydell, World of fairs: The century-of-progress expositions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), p. 35.

51 ‘Pasar Gambir’, BN, 19 Aug. 1921.

52 ‘Ke Pasar Gambir’, KM, 3 Sept. 1929; ‘Pasar Gambir’, BH, 12 Sept. 1925.

53 Programma van den Pasar Gambir Jubileum, 1921–1930, n.p.; Pieter van Wesemael, Architecture of instruction and delight: A socio-historical analysis of world exhibitions as a didactic phenomenon (1798–1851–1970) (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2001), p. 17; Wilburn, ‘Imperial knowledge and cultural display’, p. 2.

54 ‘Pemboekaan Pasar Gambir’ [The opening of Pasar Gambir], KM, 3 Sept. 1925; ‘Pasar Gambir’, KM, 4 Sept. 1928.

55 ‘Tjinta …. di Pasar Gambir’ [Love …. in Pasar Gambir], BH, 25 Aug. 1923.

56 ‘Tjinta …. di Pasar Gambir II’, BH, 8 Sept. 1923; ‘Tjinta .… di Pasar Gambir III’, BH, 15 Sept. 1923

57 Ibid.

58 Maman S. Mahayana, Bermain dengan cerpen: Apresiasi dan kritik cerpen Indonesia [Playing with short stories: Appreciation and criticism of Indonesian short stories] (Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2006), p. 15; Derks, Will, ‘“If not to anything else”: Some reflections on modern Indonesian literature’, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 152, 3 (1996): 342CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Danerek, Stefan, ‘Cerpen koran’ [Short stories in newspapers], Indonesia and the Malay World 41, 121 (2013): 419–20CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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61 ‘Toekang sebrot di Pasar Gambir’ [Snatch thief in Pasar Gambir], SP, 29 Aug. 1929; ‘Pasar Gambir’, BH, 12 Sept. 1925; ‘Tjopet di Pasar Gambir’ [Pickpocket in Pasar Gambir], SP, 2 Sept. 1929; ‘Kedjahatan di Pasar Gambir’ [Crimes in Pasar Gambir], SP, 27 Aug. 1930.

62 ‘Keriboetan militair di Pasar Gambir’ [Military commotion in Pasar Gambir], KM, 8 Sept. 1925; ‘Perklaian besar di Pasar Gambir’ [Big fight in Pasar Gambir], SP, 4 Sept. 1925; ‘Pendjagahan koeat di Pasar Gambir’ [Strong surveillance in Pasar Gambir], SP, 7 Sept. 1925; ‘Kembali riboet besar di Pasar Gambir’ [Returning to the big commotion in Pasar Gambir], SP, 4 Sept. 1925.

63 ‘Itoe perkelahian Pada Pasar Gambir’ [The fight in Pasar Gambir], KM, 14 Sept. 1928; ‘Kariboetan di Pasar Gambir’ [Commotion in Pasar Gambir], SP, 4 Sept. 1930.

64 Coté, ‘To see is to know’, p. 364; Coté, ‘Staging modernity’, p. 34.

65 ‘Bebrapa prampoean koelit poeti saparo telandjang di Pasar Gambir’ [Several white women were half-naked in Pasar Gambir], SP, 4 Sept. 1925.

66 ‘Orang Tionghoa diperlakoeken koerang adjar di Pasar Gambir’ [Ethnic Chinese treated disrespectfully in Pasar Gambir], SP, 3 Sept. 1925.

67 ‘Schandaal di Pasar Gambir’ [Scandal in Pasar Gambir], KM, 10 Sept. 1923.

68 Yulia Nurliani Lukito, Exhibiting modernity and Indonesian vernacular architecture: Hybrid architecture at Pasar Gambir of Batavia, the 1931 Paris International Colonial Exhibition and Taman Mini Indah (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2016), p. 48; Lukito, ‘Colonial exhibition and a laboratory of modernity’, p. 100.

69 Ibid., p. 101.

70 Coté, ‘To see is to know’, p. 360; Coté, ‘Staging modernity’, p. 2.

71 While the colonisers used the category of Vreemde Oosterlingen to refer mainly to local Chinese, it also included Arabs and Japanese residents. Within colonial Java, the ethnic Chinese were generally understood to encompass two cultural subgroups: the more acculturated peranakan and the Chinese-speaking, China-oriented totok. The 1920s was also a period of growing tensions between the two subgroups as the peranakan elite increasingly deviated from the pan-Chinese movement and tried to orient their fellow peranakan toward the Dutch East Indies. In this article, I use the terms ‘Vreemde Oosterlingen’, ‘local Chinese’, and ‘Indies Chinese’ interchangeably to collectively refer to both peranakan and totok in Java.

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73 Ahmat B. Adam, The vernacular press and the emergence of modern Indonesian consciousness (1855–1913) (Ithaca, NY: SEAP Publications, Cornell University, 1995), p. 189; Suryadinata, Pribumi Indonesians, p. 44; Ang Yan Goan, Memoar Ang Yan Goan 1894–1984: Tokoh pers yang peduli pembangunan bangsa [The memoir of Ang Yan Goan 1894–1985: A press figure who cared about nation building], trans. Tan Beng Hok (Jakarta: Yayasan Nabil/Hasta Mitra, 2009), p. 48.

74 ‘Boemipoetra dan Tionghoa’, SP, 17 Aug. 1925.

75 ‘Siapa jang salah?’ [Who is at fault?], SP, 17 July 1925; ‘Kariboetan di Shanghai’ [The turmoil in Shanghai], SP, 4 June 1925; ‘Apa Tiongkok bisa dikepoeng lagi?’ [Can China be placed under siege again?], SP, 6 June 1925; ‘Pers Blanda dan itoe kariboetan di Shanghai’ [The Dutch press and the turmoil in Shanghai], SP, 8 June 1925.

76 Jeffrey N. Wasserstom, Student protests in twentieth-century China: The view from Shanghai (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991), p. 122; Richard W. Rigby, The May 30 Movement: Events and themes (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1980), pp. 23, 36, 184.

77 ‘Itoe kariboetan di Shanghai’ [The turmoil in Shanghai], SP, 6 June 1925; ‘Gerakan boycott’ [Boycott movement], SP, 11 July 1925; ‘Pengrasaän anti-Inggris di Djokja’ [Anti-British sentiments in Yogyakarta], SP, 24 Aug. 1925; ‘Boycot keras’ [Intense boycott], SP, 27 Aug. 1925.

78 ‘Toendjangan dari orang Rus’ [Aid from Russians], SP, 15 June 1925; ‘Bantoe bangsa Tionghoa di Shanghai’ [Help the Chinese in Shanghai], SP, 19 June 1925; ‘Boeat Fonds Shanghai’, SP, 29 June 1925; ‘Fonds Shanghai’, SP, 29 June 1925; ‘Fonds Shanghai’, SP, 6 July 1925; ‘Fonds Shanghai’, SP, 14 July 1925; ‘Bantoean boeat Shanghai’ [Help for Shanghai], SP, 22 June 1925.

79 ‘Politie terhadap pada fonds Shanghai’ [The police on Shanghai funds], SP, 18 July 1925; ‘Siapa jang salah?’, SP, 17 July 1925.

80 ‘Pasar Gambir saparo diboycot?’, SP, 2 Sept. 1925.

81 ‘Pasar Gambir sepi!’ [Pasar Gambir is empty and quiet!], SP, 29 Aug. 1925; ‘Gambir Park lebih rame dari Pasar Gambir’, SP, 29 Aug. 1925; ‘Pasar Gambir saparo diboycot?’, SP, 2 Sept. 1925.

82 ‘De Pasar Gambir, 1921–1927’, Pasar Gambir Nummer, 27 Aug. 1927; ‘Het Einde van den Pasar Gambir’ [The end of Pasar Gambir], Het Nieuws, 10 Sept. 1929. From 1928 onwards, the Comité extended Pasar Gambir by two days, resulting in a sharp increase in visitor numbers between 1927 and 1928.

83 Dutch newspapers did not publish the racial breakdown of visitors who attended Pasar Gambir in 1930; ‘De Pasar Gambir, 1921–1927’, Pasar Gambir Nummer, 27 Aug. 1927.

84 ‘Pemboekahan Pasar Gambir’ [The opening of Pasar Gambir], SP, 25 Aug. 1930; ‘De Xe Pasar Gambir Gesloten’ [The tenth Pasar Gambir closed], BN, 8 Sept. 1930; ‘Loods-loods Pasar Gambir tida lakoe?’ [Pasar Gambir stands not saleable?], SP, 12 Aug. 1925; ‘Pasar Gambir’, BH, 12 Sept. 1925.

85 ‘Pasar Gambir’, BH, 12 Sept. 1925.

86 ‘De Pasar Gambir. 1921–1927’, Pasar Gambir Nummer, 27 Aug. 1927.

87 Stoler, Carnal knowledge, p. 24; Bennett, ‘The exhibitionary complex’, p. 74.

88 Neil Fligstein and Luke Dauter, ‘The sociology of markets’, Annual Review of Sociology 33 (2007): 113.

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93 ‘Pasar Gambir’, BH, 12 Sept. 1925; Adam, The Vernacular Press, p. 100.

94 Bennett, ‘The exhibitionary complex’, pp. 79–80.

95 Wilburn, ‘Imperial knowledge’, p. 2.