/*IBRAHIM ISA dari BIJLMER*/ /*----------------------------------------------------------*/
/*Minggu, 18 Desember, 2005*/ /*Prof. Dr. WERTHEIM, ---- JOESOEF ISAK DAN --- GOENAWAN MOHAMAD (1)*/ /Apa sebab nama-nama yang tidak asing lagi seperti : - - - Wertheim, Joesoef Isak dan Goenawan Mohamad - - - , dideretkan begitu ? Memang tiga nama itulah yang sering disebut dalam pertemuan pada hari Jum át sore anggal 16 Desember di KBRI Den Haag. / /Pasalnya: "Wertheim Foundation" tahun 2005 ini memutuskan untuk memberikan Wertheim Award kepada Joesoef Isak, Pemimpin Penerbit HASTA MITRA, dan kepada Goenawan Mohamad, budayawan, dan senior Editor Mingguan TEMPO, berhubung dengan keterlibatan, peranan dan sumbangan mereka terhadap perjuangan EMANSIPASI BANGSA INDONESIA. Kongkritnya di bidang perjuangan untuk demokrasi, untuk bebebasan menyatakan pendapat, kebebasn pers dan HAM./ /Sore hari Jum át kemarin itu, usai sembahyang Jum át, ruangan NUSANTARA KBRI penuh sesak dengan para sahabat dan relasi orang-orang Belanda maupun dari kalangan masyarakat Indonesia, serta kalangan pers. Kira-kira duaratus orang sih ada. Mereka menghadiri berlangsungnya penyerahan WERTHEIM AWARD 2005, kepada Joesoef Isak dan Goenawan Mohamad. / /Mengapa diadakakan di KBRI Den Haag? Banyak orang menganggapnya sebagai "surprise". Sebagai suatu 'kejutan'. Kejutan yang positif, yang menggembirakan dan yang disambut hangat. Pertama-tama hal ini mencerminkan perubahan besar Reformasi yang telah berlangsung di Indonesia. Meskipun, perlu ditandaskan dengan terus terang, bahawa pada saat ini gerakan Reformasi dalam poisisi jalan di tempat. Tokh perlu dinyatakan bahwa peristiwa berlangsungnya penyerahan Wertheim Award untuk Joesoef Isak dan Goenawan Mohamad di KBRI Den Haag, adalah berkat telah terjadinya Reformasi di Indonesia. Tidak salah untuk mengatakan bahwa situasi ini mencerminkan bahwa Reformasi di Indonesia --- betapapun ada hasilnya, meskipun belum seperti apa yang diharapkan oleh kaum Demokrat dan Reformator. / /Kedua, --- ini disebabkan oleh kebijaksanaan kepala perwakilan, dalam hal ini kepala perwakilan di Kedutaan Besar Republik Indonesia di Den Haag. Sejak gerakan Reformasi, pada periode pemerintahan Presiden Abdurrahman Wahid, ketika dubesnya adalah Abdul Irsan, di KBRI Den Haag telah berlangsung peluncuran buku Prof. Bob Hering, --- Sukarno, Father of the Nation. Ketika berlangsung peringatan Seabad Bung Karno, KBRI dan Dubes Irsan langsung terlibat dalam kegiatan itu bersama masyarakat Indonesia di Belanda. / /Faktor Ketiga, ialah telah terjalinnya hubungan baik dan wajar antara KBRI Den Haag dengan masyarakat Indonesia. Dimulai ketika Abdul Irsan menjabat sebagai Dubes, dan kemudian selanjutnya oleh Dubes Mohamad Jusuf, yang dilanjutkan oleh Kuasa Usaha <Minister Charge d'Affaires> Jauhari Oratmangun dan Minister Councellor, Wirana Mulya beserta Staf KBRI lainnya. / /Demikianlah, karena adanya tiga faktor ini maka penyampaian Wertheim Award kepda Joesoef Isak dan Goenawan Mohamad bisa berlangsung di KBRI Den Haag./ /Semoga dengan ini Kedutaan Besar Republik Indonesia Den Haag, mantap langkah-lngkah selanjutnya menuju KBRI sebagai WISMA INDONESIA yang BENERAN./ /Untuk memperoleh gambaran lebih lanjut tentang situasi pada penyerahan Wertheim Award tsb, mari ikuti pidato Prof. Dr Frans Hüsken, salah seorang anggota pengurus Wertheim Foundation, yang sore hari itu, membacakan pidato 'keynote speechnya', seperti di bawah ini:/ /*Opening speech Wertheim awards 2005 (Den Haag, KBRI, 16 Dec. 2005)*/ /*Willem Frederik Wertheim: Convictions, Commitments and Concerns*/ /*Prof. Dr. Frans Hüsken*/ /Today is a remarkable occasion as it is for the first time that the Wertheim awards are being handed over during an official ceremony on Indonesian territory. I am pretty sure that during his life Wertheim never set foot on these premises of the Indonesian Embassy at Tobias Asserlaan: during his life, he was never invited and even if the Embassy would have invited him, as a strong critic of the Orde Baru government Wertheim would as a matter of principle have rejected the invitation./ /Things have changed over the years: Indonesia has embarked on the trajectory of Reformasi and even if this is still a bumpy road, I am convinced that now he would gladly have come here. Wertheim still lived to see the fall of the Soeharto regime and had high hopes for the future of a more democratic Indonesia./ /But who was Willem Frederik Wertheim, better known in Indonesia as Paman Wim? I will try to briefly sketch his life and his achievements to explain why there is something like the Wertheim Award that will be handed over to two prominent Indonesian citizens. I am sure that most of you know very well who he was and what he has done and that gives me the opportunity to limit myself to the painting Wertheim with short brushstrokes for those of you who are less familiar with him./ /First of all, his life spans almost the whole of the 20^th century: Born in 1907 at St Petersburg in czarist Russia, he moved to Holland in 1918 after the Soviet Revolution, and twelve years later, in 1930, to Indonesia, from where he returned in 1946 to the Netherlands. He died 7 years ago at the age of nearly 91 in Wageningen./ /These biographic data say something about the many transitions in his life but they tell, of course, little about the man himself. So to answer the question “who was Wertheim” we have to look more closely to what he did./ /That is not easy because there he has done so much – but as I promised I will only mention a few of his achievements. In many ways, Wertheim was what we may call in a Renaissance fashion, a universal man: / /First of all, he was an internationally prominent scholar:/ /He was trained in law at Leiden University where he defended his PhD thesis in 1930; he then practiced as a member of the district court in South Sumatra and later in the Department of Justice in colonial Batavia; in 1936, when he was only 29, he was appointed as professor of law at the Law College (Rechtshogeschool)./ /But his scholarly interests developed over time as he moved from law to sociology and anthropology – and since 1946 he took up the chair of sociology and modern history of Southeast Asia at the University of Amsterdam./ /He published widely on Indonesia and Southeast Asia in general. His book on “Indonesian Society in Transition” was for a long time the major textbook on modern Indonesia, and his subsequent publication on “East-West Parallels” beautifully presented his comparative interests in European and Asia developments. He taught and supervised a great number of students. Among his Indonesian students, we find well-known scholars like Go Gien Tjwan, Han Resink, Sajogyo, Sediono Tjondronegoro, Bachtiar Rifai, Basuki Gunawan, Sartono Kartodirdjo, Harsja Bachtiar and Soeksmono – to name but a few./ /Later his theoretical interests brought him to write his studies on “Evolution and Revolution”, and on “The Long March of Emancipation” as well as numerous other books and articles on Asia in general and on social movements./ /But he didn’t confine himself to the discipline of his chair: with his wife, Hetty Gijse Weenink, he published an impressive series of articles and books on the Dutch 18^th and 19^th century pointing to the role of rebels and revolutionaries in Dutch history to whom they both felt politically very close./ /Even so: he was not only a scholar. / /He was a very well-trained pianist for whom music was an essential part of his life, and although he never became a professional, he regularly participated in concerts, often accompanying his wife who was also a trained singer, or one of his daughters who is a professional violinist./ /Another sideline in his life, but with Wertheim nothing was just a sideline, was his prominent role as a chess player – being a member of the Dutch national team in 1928 and several years later in Jakarta defeating the then world champion Aljechin/ /But primarily, as a person, he was a committed defender of justice and a great believer in progress and emancipation, combining scholarship with social and political concern./ /In his years in colonial Indonesia and particularly since he was appointed professor in Batavia, he became responsive of the demands of young Indonesian nationalists, although it was only during his internment in Japanese camps that he turned into a staunch supporter of the idea of Indonesian independence. And upon his return to the Netherlands, he became chairman of the Dutch support movement for the Indonesian Revolution./ /His personal commitment was with the fate of the oppressed. If there has been one leitmotiv in Wertheim’s life, it was “those who live in the dark and are not seen” as he called the poor and the underdogs using Berthold Brecht’s famous quotation. Seeing how the powers-that-be hardly notice the hardships of the poor, seeing how the established forces suppress opposition if that becomes a threat to their privileges, he would take sides with those who suffered under the present conditions. Where possible he would publicly denounce what he considered to be injustice whether it was the Dutch military repression of Indonesian independence, the Indonesian New Order regime, the American role in the Vietnam War, or in general the hypocrisy of Western governments vis-à-vis the Third World. / /This attitude also made Wertheim looking hopefully towards those countries that tried to radically change their societies through socialist revolutions. Although never an uncritical supporter of China or Vietnam, he was inclined to point to their achievements in improving the lives of the poor, rather than to their authoritarian political format. That made him particularly in the 1970s and 1980s a politically contested person: strongly supported by political activists and the new left, but also strongly attacked by those who saw him as a fellow traveller or crypto-communist. / /Toward the end of his life, he saw the hope of a better future through socialism dwindle rapidly, but he remained confident that new emancipation movements will enter the stage and take the world into new directions but he added: “hopefully, before it is too late”./ /How then to assess Wertheim’s social and academic role? Whatever political commitment he had during his life, he basically followed Max Weber’s advice of separating scholarship from politics, not because these were completely independent domains – which they are not – but because they follow different rules. I have always been surprised by his aptitude to be a scholar and an activist but hardly ever at the same time. During the years of the Vietnam war, he would lecture about Vietnamese history in a truly academic fashion, but only a few hours later he could be issuing political statements at the rallies and teach-ins that were organized by the Vietnam Committee: at that time it looked as if he had two different personalities, be it that commitment was the underlying trait in both of them./ /But what in my view remains his lasting contribution, is that he was a teacher who on the one hand convinced his students that scientists have a social and political responsibility, and on the other hand that one should has to be a sincere and professional scholar with an open eye for major threads in world history – including particularly emancipation. If that message sounds pre-postmodern, so be it./ /I now like to give the floor back to the chairman of the Wertheim Foundation. / /(Bersambung -- ***)/ ------------------------ Yahoo! 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