This article argues that Indonesia-EU economic relations have been accompanied by a post-colonial narrative, which has led to a transposition of anti-colonial sentiment towards the Netherlands to the EU as a whole. The post-colonial theoretical approach adopted assumes that human beings create meaning through narratives to make sense of the world that surrounds us, and that national histories contain narratives that legitimate the existence of nation-states. Through a study of Indonesian nationalism and the place of the EUropean in it, the article shows how economic relations between Indonesia and the EU have been shaped historically. It will be demonstrated how since Indonesia’s independence encounters between Indonesia and Europe has been accompanied by the experience of past colonization by an EU member state. This, it is argued, is the result of nation-building in Indonesia, whereby the other was needed to construct solidarity among its members. At present, so the article concludes, although progress has been achieved in Indonesia-EU relations, the self-image of the EU as a force for good has not reached Indonesia’s shores.

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现代服饰中的殖民主义：欧印尼关系中的后殖民叙事

本文认为，印尼与欧盟的经济关系伴随着后殖民叙事，导致对荷兰的反殖民情绪转移到整个欧盟。采用的后殖民理论方法假设人类通过叙事创造意义以理解我们周围的世界，并且民族历史包含使民族国家存在合法化的叙事。通过对印度尼西亚民族主义和欧洲在其中的地位的研究，本文展示了印度尼西亚与欧盟之间的经济关系在历史上是如何形成的。将展示自印度尼西亚独立以来，印度尼西亚与欧洲之间的相遇如何伴随着过去欧盟成员国殖民的经历。有人认为，这 是印度尼西亚国家建设的结果，需要另一个国家在其成员之间建立团结。目前，文章总结道，虽然印尼与欧盟的关系取得了进展，但欧盟作为一种向善力量的自我形象还没有到达印尼的海岸。