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<p>This study examines the contemporary relevance of monuments in Mataram City, Indonesia, testing Keith Lowe’s Prisoners of History theory through a computational digital humanities framework. Moving beyond qualitative observation, we measure the “Dissonance Gap” between the state’s encoded intent and the public’s decoded perception across 17 heritage sites using a mixed-methods approach combining Focus Group Discussions and targeted online surveys (<i>N</i> = 215). By normalising the data into a balanced lexical corpus, the methodology integrates text mining to analyse semantic shifts and polycentric spatial analysis to correlate historical centrality across Sasak, Balinese, and colonial cores with public semantic cohesion. Results reveal significant semantic erosion; official political narratives are frequently displaced by public codes of recreation and aesthetics. Furthermore, spatial analysis identifies a “Dead Centre Paradox,” where hyper-central monuments register fragmented public engagement. Both parametric (Pearson) and non-parametric (Spearman) correlation tests yielded non-significant results (<i>p</i> &gt; 0.05), suggesting that historical location offers no inherent protection against semantic silence. Ultimately, this study proposes the “Palimpsest of Silence” as an interpretative metaphor for Mataram, arguing that monuments devoid of functional integration into modern urban flows remain physically present but semantically void. To counter the limitations of static heritage preservation, we propose a dialogical management framework of dual dialogue that re-actualises symbolic meaning, bridges tangible structures with lived community experiences, and leverages cultural values as economic assets to foster an inclusive, polycentric urban identity.</p>

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Encoding–decoding silence: mapping semantic dissonances towards monuments’ narrative in the historic Mataram City

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    2026年7月27日

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  • Sonny C. Wibisono,
  • Taqyuddin Taqyuddin,
  • Muhamad Iko Kersapati,
  • Vitha Octavanny,
  • Mochamad Reyhan Qois

摘要

This study examines the contemporary relevance of monuments in Mataram City, Indonesia, testing Keith Lowe’s Prisoners of History theory through a computational digital humanities framework. Moving beyond qualitative observation, we measure the “Dissonance Gap” between the state’s encoded intent and the public’s decoded perception across 17 heritage sites using a mixed-methods approach combining Focus Group Discussions and targeted online surveys (N = 215). By normalising the data into a balanced lexical corpus, the methodology integrates text mining to analyse semantic shifts and polycentric spatial analysis to correlate historical centrality across Sasak, Balinese, and colonial cores with public semantic cohesion. Results reveal significant semantic erosion; official political narratives are frequently displaced by public codes of recreation and aesthetics. Furthermore, spatial analysis identifies a “Dead Centre Paradox,” where hyper-central monuments register fragmented public engagement. Both parametric (Pearson) and non-parametric (Spearman) correlation tests yielded non-significant results (p > 0.05), suggesting that historical location offers no inherent protection against semantic silence. Ultimately, this study proposes the “Palimpsest of Silence” as an interpretative metaphor for Mataram, arguing that monuments devoid of functional integration into modern urban flows remain physically present but semantically void. To counter the limitations of static heritage preservation, we propose a dialogical management framework of dual dialogue that re-actualises symbolic meaning, bridges tangible structures with lived community experiences, and leverages cultural values as economic assets to foster an inclusive, polycentric urban identity.