Indonesia

(see also Indonesia since 1998, Indonesian Radicalism, Indonesia: Acheh, Indonesia: West Papua, Indonesia: Moluccas, Indonesia: Celebes, Indonesia: Bali, Indonesia: Chinese, Malaysia & East Timor)

Basics:

CIA World Factbook. Includes map.

New Internationalist Profile.

UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators.

World Guide.

On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

WWW Virtual Library.

In the Library: Articles:

Dick, H.W. "The rise of a middle class & the changing concept of equity in Indonesia," Indonesia 39 (1985):71-92.

Hering, Bob. "Indonesian nationalism revisited," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 118,2 (1987):294-302.

Hindley, Donald. "Political power & the October 1965 coup in Indonesia," Journal of Asian Studies 26,2 (2/67):237-49.

Jones, Gavin W. "Religion & education in Indonesia," Indonesia 22 (1976):19-56.

Lev, Daniel S. "Writer’s colony," Nation (2/3/92):134-36. Review of Pramoedya’s This Earth of Mankind..

McDonald, Peter. "An historical perspective on population growth in Indonesia," in Fox et al. (eds.) Indonesia: Australian Perspectives (Canberra, 1980), pp. 81-94.

Orr, Kenneth; M.M. Billah & Budi Lazarusli. "Education for this life, or for the life to come? Observations on the Javanese village madrasah," Indonesia 23 (4/77):129-56.

Samson, Allen A. "The political strength of Indonesian Islam," Asian Thought & Society 5,14 (9/80).

Utrecht, Ernst. "The Indonesian Army as an instrument of repression," Journal of Contemporary Asia 2,1 (1972).

__________. "Sukarno’s populism contributed considerably to the destruction of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI)," Kabar Seberang 16 (12/85):93-99.

Van de Kok, Jean; Robert Cribb & M. Heins. "1965 & all that: history in the politics of the New Order," Review of Indonesian & Malaysian Affairs [RIMA] 25,2 (sum 1991):84-94.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Aveling, Harry (ed.) The Development of Indonesian Society, from the Coming of Islam to the Present Day (St. Lucia, Queensland, 1980).

Peter Boomgaard & others (eds.) Paper Landscapes: Explorations in the Environmental History of Indonesia (Leiden: KITLEV, 1997).

Caldwell, J. & E. Utrecht. Indonesia, An Alternative History (Norman, 1977).

Caldwell, Malcolm . Indonesia (London, 1968).

Donner, Wolf. Land Use & Environment in Indonesia (Honolulu, 1987).

Drake, Christine. National Integration in Indonesia. Patterns & Policies (Honolulu, 1989). Geography of communications.

Friend, Theodore. Indonesian Destinies (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 2003).

Fryer, Donald W. & James C. Jackson. Indonesia (London, 1977). Human geography.

Geertz, Clifford. The Religion of Java (NY, 1960).

Hefner, Robert W. The Political Economy of Mountain Java. An Interpretive History (Berkeley, 1990).

Holt, Claire (ed.) Culture & Politics in Indonesia (Ithaca NY: Cornell U., 1972).

Jackson, Karl D. Traditional Authority, Islam & Rebellion. A Study of Indonesian Political Behavior (Berkeley, 1980).

Kartodirdjo, Sartono. Modern Indonesia: Tradition & Transformation, a Socio-Historical Perspective (Athens: Ohio U., 1985).

Lev, Daniel & Ruth McVey (eds.) Making Indonesia (Ithaca NY: Cornell U., 1996).

Lubis, Mochtar. Indonesia: Land Under the Rainbow (Oxford, 1990). Short popular history.

McVey, Ruth (ed.) Indonesia: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture (NY, 1968)

Mintz, Jeanne S. Mohammed, Marx & Marhaen. The Roots of Indonesian Socialism (NY, 1965).

Mulder, Niels. Mysticism in Java. Ideology in Indonesia (Amsterdam, 1998).

Peacock, James L. Indonesia: An Anthropological Perspective (Pacific Palisades CA, 1973).

Pringle, Robert. Indonesia & the Philippines. American Interests in Island Southeast Asia (NY, 1980).

Ricklefs, Merle C. A History of Modern Indonesia, c. 1300-present (Stanford, 1993). Best general history.

Sievers, Allen M. The Mystical World of Indonesia: Culture & Economic Development in Conflict (Baltimore, 1974).

Soebadio, Haryati & Carinne A. du Marchie Sarvaas (eds.) Dynamics of Indonesian History (NY: North-Holland, 1978).

Swift, Ann. The Road to Madiun: The Indonesian Communist Uprising of 1948 (Ithaca, 1989).

Taylor, Jean Gelman. Indonesia: Peoples & Histories (New Haven: Yale, 2003). Excellent general history, transcending Javacentrism of most to acknowledge diversity of Indonesian experience.

Wertheim, W.F. Indonesian Society in Transition: A Study of Social Change (The Hague, 1959).

Williams, Walter L. Javanese Lives: Women & Men in Modern Indonesian Society (New Brunswick NJ, 1991).

Wilson, Greta O. (ed.) Regents, Reformers & Revolutionaries: Indonesian Voices of Colonial Days. Selected Historical Readings, 1899-1949 (Honolulu: U. of Hawai'i, 1978).

In the Library: Fiction

Aveling, Harry (ed. & trans.) Gestapu: Indonesian Short Stories on the Abortive Communist Coup of 30 sept 1965 (Honolulu, 1975).

__________. From Surabaya to Armageddon. Indonesian Short Stories (Hong Kong, 1976).

Boestamam, Ahmad. Carving the Path to the Summit (Athens OH, 1980).

Dardjowidjojo, Soenjono & Florence Lamoureux (ed.) In the Surau: Seven Islamic Stories from Indonesia (Honolulu, 1983).

Frederick, William H. & John H. McGlynn. Reflections on Rebellion: Stories from the Indonesian Upheavals of 1948 & 1965 (Athens OH, 1983.

Hendon, Rufus S. (ed.) Six Indonesian Short Stories (New Haven, 197?).

Ismail, Marahimin. And the War is Over (Baton Rouge, 1986).

Kayam, Umar. Sri Sumarah & Other Stories (Kuala Lumpur, 1980).

Koch, Christopher J. The Year of Living Dangerously (NY, 1978).

Lubis, Mochtar. Twilight in Djakarta (NY, 1963).

__________. The Outlaw & Other Stories (Singapore, 1987).

__________. A Road with no End (London, 1968).

Mangunwijaya, Y.B. The Weaverbirds (Jakarta, 1991).

Mihardja, Achdiat K. Atheis (St. Lucia, Queensland, 1972).

Pane, Armijn. Shackles (Athens OH, 1985).

Roskies, David M.E. (ed.) Nusantara. Anthology of Modern Indonesian Short Stories (Armonk NY, 1997).

Said, A. Samad. Salina (Kuala Lumpur, 1977),

Simatupang, Iwan Drought (Singapore, 1978).

Toer, Pramoedya Ananta. The Fugitive (Perburuan) [1950] (trans. Willem Samuels; NY: William Morrow, 1990).

__________. This Earth of Mankind [1975] (trans. Max Lane; NY: Avon, 1993). Buru Quartet 1.

__________. Child of All Nations [1979] (trans. Max Lane; NY: Penguin, 1996). Buru Quartet 2.

__________. Footsteps [1985] (trans. Max Lane; NY: Penguin, 1996). Buru Quartet 3.

__________. The Girl from the Coast (Gadis Pantai) [1987] (trans. Willem Samuels; NY: Hyperion, 2002).

__________. House of Glass [1988] (trans. Max Lane; NY: Penguin, 1992). Buru Quartet 4.

__________. Tales from Djakarta. Caricatures of Circumstances & their Human Beings (Ithaca, 1999).

__________. A Heap of Ashes (St. Lucia, Queensland, 1975).

__________. Short stories pub. in Indonesia 26 (10/78), 36 (10/83), 47 (4/89), 53 (4/92), 61 (4/96), & 64 (10/97).

__________. All that Is Gone (trans. Willem Samuels; NY: Hyperion, 2004). Stories.

Wijaya, Putu. Bomb. Indonesian Short Stories (Madison WI, 1988).

In the Library: Poetry

Anwar, Chairil. The Complete Prose & Poetry of... (Albany, 1970).

Aveling, Harry (ed.) Contemporary Indonesian Poetry: Poems in Bahasa Indonesia & English (St. Lucia, Queensland, 1975).

Brown, Iem & Joan Davis (eds.) Di Serambi: On the Verandah. A Bilingual Anthology of Modern Indonesian Poetry (Cambridge, 1995).

Raffle, Burton (ed.) Anthology of Modern Indonesian Poetry (Berkeley, 1964).

In the Library: Photography

Reed, Jane Levy (ed.) Toward Independence: A Century of Indonesia Photographed (San Francisco: Friends of Photography, 199?).

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