In this paper I reflect on the general nation-building project entailed in one of the most compelling and better-studied cases of political imagineering: Jakarta's ‘Beautiful Indonesia’ Miniature Park (Taman Mini ‘Indonesia Indah’). Conceived and driven by Indonesia's second president, Suharto, and his wife Ibu Tien in the early 1970s, this park was meant to visualise and construct the then-emerging Indonesian cultural and moral ethos in an ambiguous opposition to Soviet monumental Jakarta. By contrasting these two political spaces and exploring the vernacular concepts of beauty (keindahan) and harmony (kerukunan), I focus on the park's aesthetic dimensions and on the ways in which these dimensions articulate with the projection of a particular kind of moral nation. The account of my first visit to the park—and the country—as a graduate student and a participant of an Indonesian governmental programme of ‘cultural diplomacy’ provides first-hand material to set the stage for my analysis of the park in the post-Suharto era.

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和谐是美丽的：对“美丽的印度尼西亚”微型公园中政治美学的重新评价

在本文中，我将反思政治想象力最引人注目和研究最多的案例之一所涉及的总体国家建设项目：雅加达的“美丽的印度尼西亚”微型公园（塔曼迷你的“印度尼西亚英达”）。该公园由印度尼西亚第二任总统苏哈托（Suharto）和他的妻子伊布·蒂恩（Ibu Tien）于1970年代初期构想和推动，旨在形象化和建构当时新兴的印度尼西亚文化和道德风范，与苏维埃纪念碑般的雅加达形成矛盾。通过对比这两个政治空间，并探索关于美（keindahan）和和谐（kerukunan）的白话概念，我专注于公园的美学维度，以及这些维度与一种特殊的道德国家的投射表达方式。