{"id":7568,"date":"2026-02-25T21:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:00:11","slug":"in-memoriam-john-norman-miksic-1946-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: John Norman Miksic (1946\u20132025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>EXCERPT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John N[orman] Miksic passed away on 25 October 2025, having succumbed to pneumonia. He was just four days shy of his 79th year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An emeritus professor of the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, a programme he established at the National University of Singapore, he was one of the foremost archaeologists of his generation with special focus on Southeast Asia. In Singapore where he resided since 1987, Miksic was definitely the archaeologist who changed the city-state\u2019s view of itself to the extent of a curriculum change in the history textbooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IJAPS-221_ART-13.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT John N[orman] Miksic passed away on 25 October 2025, having succumbed to pneumonia. He was just four days shy of his 79th year. An emeritus professor of the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, a programme he established at the National University of Singapore, he was one of the foremost archaeologists of his generation with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":0,"parent":7522,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In memoriam: John Norman Miksic (1946\u20132025) | IJAPS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568\",\"name\":\"In memoriam: John Norman Miksic (1946\u20132025) | IJAPS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-25T13:49:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-25T14:00:11+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Publications\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=4753\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Vol. 22, No. 1 (2026)\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7522\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"In memoriam: John Norman Miksic (1946\u20132025)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/\",\"name\":\"\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"In memoriam: John Norman Miksic (1946\u20132025) | IJAPS","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568","url":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568","name":"In memoriam: John Norman Miksic (1946\u20132025) | IJAPS","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/#website"},"datePublished":"2026-02-25T13:49:05+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-25T14:00:11+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7568#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Publications","item":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=4753"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Vol. 22, No. 1 (2026)","item":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=7522"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"In memoriam: John Norman Miksic (1946\u20132025)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/","name":"","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2vBDF-1Y4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/101011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7568\/revisions\/7570"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}