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Foto pemasangan diorama oleh pematung Keluarga Arca, sekitar 1980-81

Photographs of Diorama Installation by the Keluarga Arca Sculptors, c. 1980-81

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Seventeen photographs of the sculptors' group Keluarga Arca installing miniature dioramas (Yani abduction, Lubang Buaya training, recovery of bodies) c. 1980-81, plus later life-size figures. Visual evidence of how the Paseban dioramas were made.

Tujuh belas foto kelompok pematung Keluarga Arca memasang diorama mini (penculikan Yani, latihan di Lubang Buaya, pengangkatan jenazah) sekitar 1980-81, plus figur ukuran asli kemudian. Bukti visual pembuatan diorama Paseban.

People

Edhi SunarsoAhmad Yani

Organisations

Keluarga ArcaArmy Para-Commando Regiment

Places

Lubang BuayaJakarta

Topics

museums and monumentsLubang Buaya and sexual slanderart, literature and musicNew Order

Tags

military trainingscapegoating

Details

Creator
Edhi Sunarso archive
Document type
archival document (visual source: 17 colour photographs of sculptors (the 'Keluarga Arca' studio group) installing miniature dioramas and of finished life-size figures)
Language
n.a.
Perspective
Indonesian army/New Order voice
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1980–1998
Source archive
archive.org · source link
Access
Digitized photographs from the Edhi Sunarso archive (archive code EKI DIO 2 00000), downloaded as PDF; listed in the corpus Internet Archive item list (retrieved 2026-10-13). Open access online; identifier and rights to confirm from the CSV. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Edhi Sunarso Archive. (n.d.). EKI DIO 2 00000: Keluarga Arca sculptors preparing diorama installation [17 colour photographs]. Edhi Sunarso Archive [digitized collection, Internet Archive].
File
01 Primary Sources/1.7 New Order Trials, Propaganda and Museum Materials/Edhi Sunarso archive (n.d.) - EKI DIO 2 00000, Keluarga Arca sculptors preparing diorama installation.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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