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1952年，印尼火山調查局（Volcanological Survey of Indonesia）在幾近內戰的局勢中創辦了《火山通訊》。彼時，印尼首任總統、革命英雄蘇加諾正竭力維繫著初生的共和國。各地遊擊軍派系和分離主義運動紛紛舉兵，建立起各式的微型政權，西爪哇部分地區甚至已宣佈獨立。在這樣的背景下，這本包羅了詩歌、科學家傳記、氣體測量數據與地動報告的火山小刊物就顯得尤為特別。作為最早入籍印尼的歐洲科學家之一、出生於殖民時期、擁有荷蘭血統的雜誌主編喬治·德·內夫（Georges de Neve）在發刊詞中提出，《火山通訊》是對民族主義事業的貢獻，並認為火山科學能夠凝聚後殖民時代的印尼。
如今我們重新刊載《火山通訊》，但希望賦予它新的生命，以回應我們這個困惑而動盪的時代。這可以被看作是一次對《火山通訊》的再思考——火山通訊，再度啟程。在接下來的篇章中，我們將探討當年創刊及今日重刊《火山通訊》的意義，並將火山與科學置於更廣闊的對話中，思考政治、地球及其內部構造間的關係；我們也將思考不穩定的地質結構、災難事件，以及後殖民時代的未來圖景。我們的撰稿人關注火山作為地球「祖先」的身份——它們如何成為社會歷史的具象化，以及當它們被開發利用時意味著什麼。我們著迷於精神地理與科學地理的交匯，以及二者如何彼此成就。最後，我們好奇：「歡樂」的火山政治應該是是什麼樣的？
1952年《火山通訊》初版的封面印有默拉皮火山（Mount Merapi），這座火山不僅是印尼乃至全球火山科學發展的主角，也在我們編輯團隊的生命中扮演著啟發性的角色。正因如此，默拉皮火山被置於《火山通訊》的中心，但它也並非本刊的全部。我們的每位撰稿人都沿著各自的切入點，深入有關異質夢想與地球未來的地下世界。
In 1952, the Volcanological Survey of Indonesia published the Berita Gunung Berapi (Volcano News) amidst a condition of near civil war. Indonesia’s first president and revolutionary hero, Soekarno, was struggling to hold the fledgling Republic together. Factions of guerrilla armies and separatist movements were taking up arms to establish their own mini-states. Parts of west Java had been declared independent. The little magazine about volcanoes, which included a unique blend of poetry and profiles of scientists along with gas measurements and reports of trembling grounds, was a surprising appearance in this scene. The editor, Georges de NEVE, born in the colony and of Dutch parentage—and likely one of the first European scientists to take up Indonesian citizenship—claimed in the editorial that the Berita Gunung Berapi was a contribution to the nationalist cause. Volcano science, he argued, could unite the post-colony.
Here, we are republishing the Berita. But we make it our own. We make it speak to our own confused and tumultuous moment. Consider it the Berita re-considered. Berita Gunung Berapi, again. In the pages that follow we think about what it meant to publish the first Berita, and what it means to publish the Berita now. We situate volcanoes and science in broader conversations about the relationship between politics, the earth, and its interior. We think about unstable geologies, catastrophes and postcolonial futures. Our contributors are interested in how volcanoes are our ancestors, how they are social history materialised and what it means when they are exploited. We are fascinated by the intersections of spiritual and scientific geographies and how they made each other. And ultimately, we wonder what a ‘cheery’ volcanic politics might look like.
The front cover of the 1952 edition of the Berita Gunung Berapi contained an image of Mount Merapi, a leading protagonist in the development of Indonesian and even global volcano science. Merapi is also an inspiring character in our (the editors’) lives. As such, Merapi is at the centre of the Berita, but it does not contain the whole magazine. Each contributor follows their own tangents into a subterranean space of heterogenous dreams and planetary futures.
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參與者 CONTRIBUTORS //
Nigel CLARK, Irwan AHMETT + Tita SALINA, Adam BOBBETTE, Diandra RENDRADJAJA, Alyssa DeBLASIO, M.I. Adnawidjaja, Theresa VENTURA, R. TANOJO, Joko PININGIT, ANDEATH, Dito YUWONO, Mira ASRININGTYAS, Dewi CANDRANINGRUM
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