The real record of history is found in the lives of the ordinary people who lived it. Collecting, preserving and sharing oral histories not only transmits knowledge from one generation to the next, it enhances our understanding of the past by illuminating personal experience. This is Oral History Project about Belanda Depok.

1. ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
HISTORY OF
BELANDA DEPOK
The team members:
Endang Wahyu Lestari
Hendro Wicaksono
M. Jarkasih
Ni Putu Wahyu Candra W
Universitas Indonesia
The real record of history is found in the lives of the ordinary people Program Pascasarjana
who lived it. Collecting, preserving and sharing oral histories not only Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi
transmits knowledge from one generation to the next, it enhances Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya
our understanding of the past by illuminating personal experience.

2. Equipments Preparation

3. Interview Process

4. Sequences for Oral History Project (1)
● Search and formulate interesting topic or issue.
● Search the interviewee for the topic.
● Browse the supporting documents and publications
about the topic.
● Define the questions.
● Plan the project (interviewee, budget, job desc for each
group members, equipments, time frames and
mechanism of interview).

5. Sequences for Oral History Project (2)
● Determine the type of oral history.
● Interview process.
● Write down the interview transcript.
● Organizing results and preparing the group
presentation.
● Presenting the project.

6. Project Information (1)
Topic : Belanda Depok
● Interesting topic, reality history
● Location in Depok city
● The communities of Belanda Depok are still exist
● We can still found some of the relics of Belanda Depok,
and the buildings that remain from that era.
● There are still some undercover stories about Belanda
Depok.

7. Project Information (2)
Interviewee: Mr. Otto Leander
● He is one of the important
persons of belanda depok.
● He is a pure heir of belanda
depok. He is from clan
Leander (one of 12 clans).
● He is a committee of belanda
depok organization (YLCC).

8. Project Information (3)
Type of Oral History : Oral life story, because the
interview will focused on his life experiences as a
Belanda Depok.
Equipments : camera, video camera, sound recorder,
tripod
Meeting point : at Restauran Soto, Kartini street, Depok
(3pm – 6pm) on 1 November 2012 (based on
appointment)
Interview + Site visit time :
about 3.30pm – 6.00 pm.

9. Chronology of Oral History Project (1)
25-30 October 2012. We did literature research about
belanda depok from :
● Book : Gedoran Depok, by Wenri Wanhar published by
Sadar Media, 2011.
● Television program kampung kita from Elshinta TV
Station.
● Internet.

10. Chronology of Oral History Project (2)
31 Oktober 2012. We discussed about objections,
targets, interview process and make appointment with
Mr. Otto Leander, arrange the questionnaire and define
jobs desc to our group members, ask for Mr. Leander’s
permission for interview.

11. Chronology of Oral History Project (3)
1 November 2012:
● Meet Mr. Otto Leander.
● Asked for Mr. Leander’s permission to record and take
pictures for academic purpose
● Get permission : to release his name and his story for
the presentation
● interviewing process (about 2 hours)
● taking pictures when site visit: parliament building,
state court, church, and the first electricity pole in
depok

12. Chronology of Oral History Project (4)
19 November 2012. We discuss the final project and
group presentation:
● Share the voice recording for each group members
● Define form of report (transcript and group presentation
method)
● Personal jobs
● Compile the pictures of Mr. Otto Leander and the
relics and buildings that remain from Belanda depok

13. Chronology of Oral History Project (5)
19 – 22 November 2012 :
● Each member write down the transcription as long as
the interview recording
● Make report / group presentation
● Make Power point
23 November 2012 : group presentation session

14. Result of Oral History Project
● Biodata of Mr. Otto Leander
● Table of Content
● Transcription of Interview
● Pictures of relics of Belanda Depok and buildings that
remain from that era
● Frame of metadata, Oral History of Belanda Depok

15. Difficulties
● To synchronize the vision, mission, and objective
among the team members
● To specify the place and time to meet the interviewee
● To Avoiding noise around the site interview (the
meeting point was in the restaurant and the rain was
so heavy)
● Less systematic interview process because it's the first
time for our group, and answers from interviewee less
focused
● We felt hesitate to interrupt the interviewee to focus.

16. Sites Visit
Inside of the church

17. Sites Visit
Inside of the church

18. Sites Visit
Inside of the church

19. Sites Visit
Inside of the church

20. Sites Visit
Inside of the church

21. Sites Visit
Inside of the church

22. Sites Visit
12 church doors with clan's name on each door

23. Sites Visit
12 church doors with clan's name on each door

24. Sites Visit
12 church doors with clan's name on each door

25. Sites Visit
Outside of the church

26. Sites Visit
State court of Belanda Depok

27. Sites Visit
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Parliament building, now Harapan Depok Hospital

28. Sites Visit
Parliament building, now Harapan Depok Hospital

29. Sites Visit
First electricity pole in Depok (near from parliament building)

30. Our Opinion About Oral History Project
New interesting experiences during
all the oral history process.
hopefully, what we have made here
can be an example for the real
creation of oral history archive in
Indonesia.

31. Thank You