Indonesia: Sukarno Regime (1950-1965)

(see also Indonesia, Indonesia: Independence Movement, Indonesian Radicalism & Indonesia: Suharto Regime)

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In the Library: Articles

Gunawan, B. "Political mobilization in Indonesia: nationalists vs. communists," Modern Asian Studies 7,4 (10/73):707-16.

Hanna, Willard A. "Nationalist revolution & revolutionary nationalism: Indonesia," in Kalman Silvert (ed.) Expectant Peoples: Nationalism & Development (NY: Vintage, 1967), pp.129-77. Useful background on period prior to massacres of 1965.

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

Aldrich, R.J. & G.D. Rawnsley (eds.) The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65: Western Intelligence, Propaganda & Special Operations (Portland, 2000).

Anderson, B.R. O’G. & R. McVey. A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1,1965 Coup in Indonesia (Ithaca, 1971).

Bocquet-Silk, Margaret & Robert Cribb (eds.) Islam & the Panca Sila (Townsville QLD: James Cook U., 1991).

Boland, B.J. The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia (The Hague, 1971).

Brackman, A.D. The Communist Collapse in Indonesia (NY, 1969).

Cribb, Robert (ed.) The Indonesian Killings, 1965-66: Studies from Java & Bali (Clayton, Victoria, 1990).

Crouch, Harold. The Army & Politics in Indonesia (Ithaca, 1989).

Dahm, Bernard. Sukarno & the Struggle for Indonesian Independence (Ithaca, 1969).

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

Hindley, Donald. The Communist Party of Indonesia, 1951-1963 (Berkeley, 1964).

Holt, Claire (ed.) Culture & Politics in Indonesia (Ithaca, 1972).

Kahin, Audrey & George McTurnin Kahin. Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower & Dulles Debacle in Indonesia (NY: W.W. Norton, 1995).

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

Legge, J.D. Sukarno: A Political Biography (London, 1972).

Lev, Daniel & Ruth McVey (eds.) Making Indonesia (Ithaca, 1996).

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).

Mortimer, Rex. Indonesian Communism under Sukarno. Ideology & Politics, 1959-1965 (Ithaca, 1974).

Otten, Mariel. Transmigrasi: Indonesian Resettlement Policy, 1965-1985. Myths & Realities (Cambridge MA, 1987).

Rose, Mavis. Indonesia is Free: A Political Biography of Mohammed Hatta (Ithaca, 1987).

Törnquist, Olle. Dilemmas of Third World Communism. The Destruction of the PKI in Indonesia (London, 1984).

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

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" The Year of Living Dangerously" [1983], dir, Peter Weir, 115m. In video stores.