This article examines the social and spatial embedding of the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan within the colonial society of the Dutch East Indies. It challenges the conception of the colonial prison site as an unquestioned symbol of discipline and control in the hands of the authorities, doing so by studying the various images, reputations, and stigmas of the island that circulated in the colony. Its reputation was established and disseminated by journalists, politicians, and other “informed outsiders”, who paid short authorized visits to the island, and their conclusions and evaluations determined, to a large extent, the effectiveness of Nusakambangan as a deterrent and as a symbol of colonial discipline and control.

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从大洋彼岸：努萨坎邦甘和臭名昭著的监狱岛的形成

本文考察了印度尼西亚监狱岛努萨坎班甘在荷属东印度群岛的殖民社会中的社会和空间嵌入。它通过研究在殖民地流传的岛屿的各种形象、声誉和污名，挑战了殖民监狱遗址作为当局手中毫无疑问的纪律和控制象征的概念。它的声誉是由记者、政治家和其他“知情的局外人”建立和传播的，他们对该岛进行了短暂的授权访问，他们的结论和评估在很大程度上决定了努萨坎邦甘作为威慑和象征的有效性殖民纪律和控制。