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History: Analysis of Sukarno's Bandung Speech

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Analyzing primary source documents

(Adapted from the Library of Congress, http://memory(dot)loc(dot)gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/billy/analyze.html )

The aim of this essay-writing assignment is to develop an understanding of the interpretive aspects of historical research and experience the historian's dilemma of assessing the credibility of a primary source.

Researchers also will come to the realization that the frame of reference for the production of the source can influence the researcher's attempt to gain a true perspective of historical events and/or personalities.

Primary sources can provide valuable information about historical figures and events, but it is important for researchers to develop a series of questions that will be useful in assessing the validity of the documents. Consider the following questions in your analysis of the document/s to achieve a more effective use of the primary source document/s.

Organize your thoughts and responses as an essay, with an argument, in which you make points to support the argument, and back up the points with evidence from the sources. (See below for instructions on how to cite your sources.)

Identify:

  1. What type of document is it: letter, court record, diary, newspaper, broadside, government record, interview, etc.?
  2. What was the origin of the document?
  3. Can the author be identified?
  4. When was the document created?
  5. For what audience was the document created?
  6. Why was the document created?

Examine:

  1. Read through the document once to get a general idea of the content.
  2. Next, read the document more slowly. Divide it into smaller segments. What information does the document contain with reference to lifestyle, governmental affairs, historical events, economics, laws, beliefs, etc.?
  3. If the document is not dated, can you determine an approximate date from the information contained within the document?

Evaluate:

  1. Is the information given in the document reliable? How do you know? If this were a longer research paper, what other sources could you use to verify the document's accuracy?
  2. Did the author take part in the event or was he/she reporting what others had said? If s/he took part, how so?
  3. Did the author have a positive or negative interest in the events? How can you tell?

Determine Its Usefulness:

  1. What information from this document is useful for the development of your topic? Or, what argument about the document, author, event/s, or context can you begin to make from the document/s? Support the argument with evidence from the document/s.
  2. What does this information add to the development or analysis of your topic? How can incorrect information or a biased viewpoint be used in your analysis of your topic?
  3. What other questions or lines of inquiry does this document suggest?

 CITING YOUR SOURCES

 In your 2-3 page essays for class, you MUST cite the sources of your ideas and information if they do not come directly from your own head.

 (Not citing the source of ideas and information is plagiarism and may result in failing the assignment.On how to avoid plagiarism, see http://libweb(dot)lib(dot)buffalo(dot)edu/guide/guide.asp?ID=58)

 To cite the source of ideas or information, use ENDNOTES (convert footnotes to endnotes).

Use the proper format. For a guide to the format, see the Chicago  Maual of Style/ Turabian guide at the website below, used by historians. It shows the format for notes, and for bibliography.You need to make both.

http://www(dot)chicagomanualofstyle(dot)org/tools_citationguide.html

DO NOT DRAW ON OUTSIDE MATERIALS FOR THE ASSIGNMENT.

Submit your essay through the course website's plagiarism checker under "assignments" on our course webpage.

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Analysis of Sukarno’s Bandung Speech
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Analysis of Sukarno’s Bandung Speech
The provided document is an opening speech made by President Sukarno of Indonesia at the Bandung Conference in 1955. The speech was titled Let a New Africa and Asia be Born, and was his earliest major speech delivered in the English language. The speech was written by a Briton called Tom Atkinson and an Australian citizen called Molly Bondan. The two speech writers had backed the Indonesian revolution that took place in the late 1940s and consequently worked for Sukarno as his English language speechwriters. Sukarno, of course, approved the document and put his own unique stamp on it.
The Bandung conference took place from 18th to 24th of April 1955. It involved Burma, Indian, Ceylon, Pakistan and Indonesia as the sponsor nations, as well as 24 participating nations from Africa and Asia. The conference turned out to be a historic defining moment in the international relations of the participating countries. It was necessitated by a variety of post world war two events and issues that were confronting the newly liberated and decolonized countries in Africa and Asia. Despite the war ending in August 1945, it did not mean that there would be peace and security in the world. This is because there was hostility between two groups of nations that went on in different ways-one was led by America while the other was led by the Soviet Union. In addition, there were a number of regions of Africa and Asia that was still under the colonization of western nations. Attempts to quell the anti-imperialist and anti-colonial struggles resulted in open wars in the Korean peninsula, the Malayan Peninsula, Palestine, Indochina and a number of parts in Africa. Amid intense pressure from the rising cold war bipolarism, these nations unanimously agreed to choose neither the West nor the East. Rather, they would pursue their own strategy and path under the guidance of the so-called ‘Bandung principles’.
In the speech, the president stated that even though participants in the conference came from different nations, different cultural, social, political and religious backgrounds, and even different skin colors, it was possible to unite them by the unpleasant experiences caused by colonialism. They could also be united by the same devotion they showed in defending and strengthening world peace. Sukarno said that he hoped the conference would proof of the fact that African and Asian leaders understand the two continents can only prosper when they are united. He was aware that it was not even possible to safeguard the safety of the world...
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