Returning to Nunusaku through Songwriting: Imagining Moluccan Identity and Reconciliation in the Songs of John Beay, Christian Tamaela, and Pontong

Abstract

Drawing on several published sources as well as my own experience living in Ambon and working under the Gereja Protestan Maluku (GPM) from 2008 to 2018, this article will focus on songs composed by Christian Tamaela and John Beay since the end of the Moluccan civil war, as well as those written by the members of Pontong.