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Foto diorama Museum Satriamandala (Museum Pusat ABRI), 1974

Photographs of Diorama, Museum Satriamandala (Museum Pusat ABRI), 1974

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Eleven damaged colour prints (June 1974) of dioramas made by Edhi Sunarso's workshop for the Museum Satriamandala, showing oath-taking, assemblies and possibly an exhumation scene. Uncaptioned visual record of the military museum's historical narrative.

Sebelas cetak foto berwarna rusak (Juni 1974) diorama buatan bengkel Edhi Sunarso untuk Museum Satriamandala, menampilkan pelantikan, sidang dan kemungkinan adegan pengangkatan jenazah. Rekam visual tanpa keterangan narasi sejarah museum militer.

People

Edhi Sunarso

Organisations

Armed Forces Central MuseumIndonesian National Armed Forces

Places

Jakarta

Topics

museums and monumentsart, literature and musicNew Order

Tags

photo report

Details

Date
1974
Creator
Edhi Sunarso archive
Document type
photograph (visual source: 11 photographic prints of museum dioramas (documentation photographs from the sculptor's archive))
Language
n.a.
Perspective
Indonesian army/New Order voice
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1967–1979
Source archive
archive.org · source link
Access
Digitised photographs from the archive of the sculptor Edhi Sunarso (1932-2016; studio and family archive, Yogyakarta). The item codes ('MUS EKA LG', 'EKI') are archive inventory numbers; the platform through which the scans were obtained (family archive or a digitisation project such as IVAA, Indonesian Visual Art Archive) is not recorded in the file [verify]. The PDF was assembled on macOS (Quartz PDFContext) on 12 April 2026, i.e. compiled locally from image files. Access status (open access vs. permission of the archive) to be confirmed before reproduction; retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Edhi Sunarso. (1974). [Eleven photographs of dioramas, Museum Satriamandala (Museum Pusat ABRI), Jakarta] [Photographs; colour prints, item MUS EKA LG 00001]. Edhi Sunarso Archive, Yogyakarta.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.7 New Order Trials, Propaganda and Museum Materials/Edhi Sunarso archive (1974) - MUS EKA LG 00001, 11 photographs of dioramas, Museum Satriamandala.pdf
OCR / text
n/a (little or no text) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.7 New Order Trials, Propaganda and Museum Materials
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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