An Introduction to the Special Editions on Indonesian Knowledge Decolonization

Knowledge is a new topic in the historiography of Indonesia. This is a salutary development, because "knowledge" pervades every corner of society. Whether we are concerned with food production, health care, governance, industry or education, forms of knowledge are involved. Knowledge(s) and society are deeply connected. The ways in which particular bodies of knowledge are construed, produced, and validated are often informed by cultural, political, and socio-economic processes, which in turn are themselves the products of procedures that in one way or another involved knowledge.