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Approaching Suharto's Indonesia From the Margins

Takashi Shiraishi, ed.
This text is the fourth and final volume in a series of essays by Japanese scholars of Southeast Asia. Essayists include Yoshinori Murai, whose "The Authoritarian Bureaucratic Politics of Development: Indonesia under Suharto's New Order" considers the political styles and methodologies of Suharto's New Order government, and Yuri Sato, whose "The Development of Business Groups in Indonesia: 1967-1989" studies the economic development of Indonesia under Suharto. Yosuke Fuke's essay, "Used-Clothing Routes: From Japan to Indonesia," is a delightfully unique study of one aspect of the economic and cultural relationship between Japan and Indonesia. This collection is a learned, erudite, and eminently readable study of Suharto's regime. Illustrations. Maps.
$18.95 (P)
 
Indonesia

John U. Wolff, Dede Oetomo & Daniel Fietkiewicz
Includes an extensive Indonesian-English glossary (over 2,600 words) and a complete answer key. Additionally, every exercise in the series is included on the audio tapes, available separately. 3rd revised edition 1992. 115 pages. This SEAP Language text has accompanying audio tapes, available separately from: The Language Resource Center, Tape Sales, Room G11, Noyes Lodge, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Tel:(607)255-7394 Fax:(607)255-6882 http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/sales
$7.95 (P)
 
Indonesia
- Language Resources

John U. Wolff, Dede Oetomo & Daniel Fietkiewicz
Lessons 1-15. (Oversized) This SEAP Language text has accompanying audio tapes, available separately from: The Language Resource Center, Tape Sales, Room G11, Noyes Lodge, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Tel:(607)255-7394. Fax:(607)255-6882 http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/sales
$20.95 (P)
 
Indonesia
- Language Resources

John U. Wolff, Dede Oetomo & Daniel Fietkiewicz
Lessons 16-25. (Oversized) This SEAP Language text has accompanying audio tapes, available separately from: The Language Resource Center, Tape Sales, Room G11, Noyes Lodge, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Tel:(607)255-7394. Fax:(607)255-6882 http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/sales
$20.95 (P)
 
Indonesia
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John U. Wolff
Dual Platform DVD to accompany the Beginning Indonesia through Self Instruction Books, Volumes 1-3. Bahasa Indonesia is the national language of Indonesia and is spoken by some two hundred million people in the Republic of Indonesia and the Kingdom of Malaysia. The program Beginning Indonesian through Self Instruction (BITSI) is a complete curriculum for learning Indonesian at the beginning and intermediate levels. This curriculum offers an interactive, multi-media program complete with videos, photographs, and drawings for computer-based learning through a dual-platform DVD.
$80.00 (P)
 
Indonesia
- Language Resources

Breaking the Chains of Oppression of the Indonesian People::
Defense Statement at His Trial on Charges of Insulting the Head of State, Bandung, June 7-10, 1979

Heri Akhmadi
This document is a surreal, almost Kafka-esque illustration of the limits and horrors of law. At turns hysterical and eloquent, Heri Akhmadi, a student leader at one of the leading colleges in Indonesia, criticized the New Order government of Suharto and its continuing rule. As a result, he was arrested and jailed in 1978 on charges of insulting the head of state. In his published speech (delivered in his defense at his trial), Akhmadi accuses the government of dictatorship and a concentration of power in which corruption and swindling were rampant and in which the parliament was ineffective and weak. He bravely explores the meanings of justice and injustice, the duty of students to reform society, and the nature of democracy and the electoral process. 1981. 201 pages.
$11.95 (P)
 
Indonesia

Harry J. Benda & Ruth McVey, eds.
The Indonesian Communist Party rebellion in 1926-1927 had a great impact upon subsequent political development; it brought about major turning points in the development of Netherlands Indies colonial policy and the growth of Indonesian political organizations. It also had disastrous effects on the first Indonesian mass political movement (no later movement would have the same following as the Sarekat Islam and the Communist Party). A translation of three reports, including the January, 1927 Report by the Governor General of the Netherlands Indies, the Bantam Report, and the political section of the West Coast of Sumatra Report illuminate a period of political and social change and illustrate the Dutch government's fears of challenges to its rule. 1960. 2nd printing 1969. 177 pages.
$7.95 (P)
 
Indonesia

Eva-Lotta E. Hedman, editor
This volume foregrounds the dynamics of displacement and the experiences of internal refugees uprooted by conflict and violence in Indonesia. Contributors examine displacement in the context of militarized conflict and violence in East Timor, Aceh, and Papua, and in other parts of Outer Island Indonesia during the transition from authoritarian rule. The collection also explores official and humanitarian discourses on displacement and their significance for the politics of representation.
$23.95 (P)
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Indonesia

Burhan Magenda
Burhan Magenda has produced a study of the role of local aristocracies that dominated the politics of the various regions outside Java from pre-colonial to postcolonial times. Such an area of interest has largely been ignored in previous studies of Indonesia, and this study corrects that mistake by focusing upon the area of East Kalimantan, a harbor principality engaging in commercial trade. The author details the bureaucratic positions obtained by aristocrats under the Dutch colonizers and the tensions that existed among the various levels and groups within the aristocracy. He also delves into the anti-aristocratic feeling and nationalistic sentiment (among people the aristocrats were alienated and independent from) which made the aristocrats' transition to the post-colonial period especially difficult. 1991. 120 pages.
$14.95 (P)
 
Indonesia

John U. Wolff
Includes an Indonesian-English Glossary (nearly 2000 words). 2nd revised edition 1986. 446 pages
$20.95 (P)
 
Indonesia
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K.E. Ward
Islamic thought greatly influenced the struggle of the Indonesian people for independence. In this study, Ward carefully examines the political implications of this influence: the growth of many Islamic groups such as Indonesia's principal Muslim party, the Masjumi, and the failure of later Muslim leaders to build a consensus on the application of doctrine to practical social and economic problems. In lucid prose, the author delineates and explains history, politics, religion, and culture. 1970. 75 pages.
$10.95 (P)
 
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Friends and Exiles:
A Memoir of the Nutmeg Isles and the Indonesian Nationalist Movement

Des ALWI
Des Alwi tells of his childhood on the eastern Indonesian island of Banda, where he was befriended and adopted by the two nationalist leaders, Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir, exiled there by the Dutch colonial regime. He describes his experiences on Banda and Java during the Japanese Occupation and his involvement in the underground struggle for Independence.
$20.95 (P)
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Indonesia

Mary Somers Heidhues
This study examines the changing role of the Chinese community of West kalimantan, particularly its economic and social relationships. Heidhues explores the history of the community from the early nineteenth century establishment of the kongsis to the "Dayak Raids" which uprooted the rural Chinese population in the 1960s.
$23.95 (P)
 
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Hadrami Awakening, The:
Community and Identity in the Netherlands East Indies, 1900-1942

Natalie Mobini-Kesheh
A ground-breaking study of the Arab Hadrami community in Indonesia. The book considers the evolution of Indonesian Arab identity in the context of the rise of nationalism throughout Southeast Asia during the early twentieth century.
$19.95 (P)
 
Indonesia

Mavis Rose
A leader of Indonesian independence, joint proclaimer of the Republic of Indonesia, and the first Vice President of this Republic, Mohammad Hatta led an eventful life. Yet this quiet, principled, and highly idealistic man was often overshadowed by the charismatic President of the Republic, Sukarno. But without Hatta's practical ideas on social and economic reform (based on principles of democracy), the Sukarno regime was fated to end in political and economic disaster and Hatta was fated to end his life deeply disillusioned by politics and frustrated by his unrealized ideals. This well-written, almost novelistic, biography focuses on the political achievements of Hatta and the difficulties he faced in the struggle for independence and the formation of a new state. 1987. 252 pages.
$22.95 (P)
 
Indonesia

John U. Wolff
Includes an Indonesian-English glossary (over 1000 words) and translations of the conversations to English. 1978. 3rd printing 1991. 297 pages. This SEAP Language text has accompanying audio tapes, available separately from: The Language Resource Center, Tape Sales, Room G11, Noyes Lodge, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Tel:(607)255-8793 Fax:(607)255-6882 http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/sales
$20.95 (P)
 
Indonesia
- Language Resources

John U. Wolff
Includes an Indonesian-English Glossary (over 1000 words) and translations of the conversations to English. 1978. 4th printing 1992. 480 pages. (Oversized)
$20.95 (P)
 
Indonesia
- Language Resources

Indonesian Supreme Court, The:
A Study of Institutional Collapse

Sebastiaan POMPE
Since the fall of Indonesian president Suharto, a major focus of the reformers has been the corrupt and inefficient judicial system. Within the context of a history of the Supreme Court in post-independence Indonesia, Sebastiaan Pompe analyzes the causes of the judiciary’s failure over the last five decades. This study provides an essential background for those seeking to understand why legal reform has been so slow and frustrating in the post-1998 period. The Chief Justice of the Indonesian Supreme Court writes in his introduction to this volume: “For myself, Sebastiaan Pompe’s book is not merely a study that enhances academic knowledge, but rather is a valuable source of material that is exceedingly useful in the reconstruction of our judiciary now underway.”
$31.95 (P)
$62.95 (HC)
Indonesia

Intellectuals and Nationalism in Indonesia:
A Study of the Following Recruited by Sutan Sjahrir in Occupation Jakarta

J.D. Legge
Sutan Sjahrir, a man who would eventually become the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Indonesia, was first involved in the nationalist movement as the leader of a group of youth from Jakarta during the Japanese Occupation. His intent was to prepare for the future struggle for independence. Legge's study is a reassessment both of the part played by the PSI (and specifically that part of it led by Sjahrir and comprised of intellectuals) in the Republic's formation and of the role played by intellectuals in transitional societies. In one particularly vivid section, the author presents and analyzes interviews with surviving members of the organization. Such a focus may be inherently biased, but Legge is concerned with historiography as well: the differences in methods of interpretation and analysis and in ideological preferences, which affect what is observed and how facts and evidence are relayed. 1988. 159 pages.
$10.95 (P)
 
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Interpreting Indonesian Politics:
Thirteen Contributions to the Debate, 1964-1981

Benedict R. O'G. Anderson & Audrey Kahin, eds.
This work delineates the evolution of the historiography of Indonesian politics by Western scholars (most of whom have conducted extensive fieldwork in the area). The essays in this work (by such authors as Joel S. Kahn, Rex Mortimer, and Donald K. Emerson) are presented in chronological order and thus track the critical debate and varied perspectives that inform much of Indonesian studies. The authors are concerned with the history and politics of Indonesia (the controversies surrounding various interpretations of Guided Democracy and the New Order are especially fascinating), the turmoil and change of the 1950s, and the conceptual approaches and critical frameworks used by scholars. Yet, most importantly (as evidenced by Herbert Feith's response to an article by Harry J. Benda), these essays offer new opportunities and avenues for discussion, analysis, interpretation, and explanation. 1982. 3rd printing 1991. 172 pages.
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Japanese Memoir of Sumatra, 1945-1946, A:
Love and Hatred in the Liberation War

Takao Fusayama
This memoir is both historical and fictional-illustrating both the problems and the pleasures of this method of writing. The author recorded this emotional history immediately after reestablishing himself in Japan and though, as he says, much of it is based on fact, a few details are illustrated by complementary fictions. The author, appointed to the position of liaison officer managing Indonesian affairs for Japan's army in North Sumatra, records the conflicts between the Japanese, who wanted to aid the Indonesians, and the victorious Allied Forces. Proclaiming Indonesians the brothers of the Japanese, this memoir is a fascinating study of human struggle, action, and behavior related in a flowing and conversational style-it is history from the point of view of one who lived through it. 1993. 150 pages.
$15.95 (P)
 
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Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts:
Vol. 1, Introduction and Manuscripts of the Karaton Surakarta

Nancy K. Florida
The first of a projected four-volume descriptive catalogue. 1993. 410 pages. Frontispiece and 5 illustrations. (Oversized)
$39.95 (P)
$58.95 (HC)
Indonesia

Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts:
Vol 2, Manuscripts of the Mangkunagaran Palace

Nancy K. Florida
Annotated bibliography of Javanese manuscripts housed in the Reksa Pustaka library in Surakarta, the first institutionalized library in the Indies founded and administered by native Javanese. 2000. 576 pages. (Oversized)
$45.95 (P)
 
Indonesia

Barbara G. Shimer & Guy Hobbs, trans.
This collection of memoirs by the Japanese military police (the Kenpeitai) of World War II is often infuriating and frustrating (these disciplined and fanatical former officers freely terrorized and repressed the native populations of Southeast Asia for such crimes as Marxism, Islam, and nationalism). Yet they are documents of great historical significance. The men are self-deceiving and self-glorifying rather than apologetic or self-critical, but the reader is allowed a rare glimpse of what a mind or mind-set justifies to itself during a state of war. These memoirs (only certain Indonesian sections are published here) clarify obscure motives and historical moments of the events during the Pacific War and the Japanese occupation. 1986. 80 pages.
$10.95 (P)
 
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Laskar Jihad:
Islam, Militancy, and the Quest for Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia

Noorhaidi HASAN
An in-depth study of the militant Islamic Laskar Jihad movement and its links to international Muslim networks and ideological debates. This analysis is grounded in extensive research and interviews with Salafi leaders and activists who supported jihad throughout the Moluccas.
$23.95 (P)
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Indonesia

Making Indonesia:
Essays on Modern Indonesia in Honor of George McT. Kahin

Daniel S. Lev & Ruth McVey , eds.
This collection examines the genesis and evolution of the modern Indonesian nation-state. Essays range from a study of the nation's imaginative conception to a study of the Suharto government's political and financial infrastructure. Contributing authors include Ruth McVey, Takashi Shiraishi, Fred Bunnell, and Benedict R. O'G Anderson (whose fascinatingly original contribution is entitled Language, Fantasy, Revolution: Java 1900-1950). The works study such varied topics as the independence leader Sjahrir, Indonesian Communism, nationalist movements and the Indonesian revolution, theories and constructions of statehood, law and justice, and questions of violence and reform. Dedicated to the memory and scholarship of George McT. Kahin, this work focuses on Indonesia's development as a state and its conception of itself as a nation. Essays contributed to honor George McT. Kahin.
$23.95 (P)
 
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Elizabeth E. Graves
The peoples of West Sumatra-specifically Minangkabau society in the nineteenth century-were an elite group of educated intellectuals, professionals, and politicians who displayed intense local interest and initiative in the limited educational opportunities presented to them by the Dutch colonial government's need for local civil servants. By examining the impact of educational policies in this society, the author provides insight into the impact of colonialism in general-the independence and self-reliance of these people allowed them to become leaders of the nationalist movement in the twentieth century. This well-written work provides new information on this region and its peoples. 1981. 157 pages.
$15.95 (P)
 
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Benedict R. O'G. Anderson
This valuable title, in print for over thirty years, provides a lasting contribution to our understanding of Javanese society. Insight comes through an analysis of wayang (Javanese shadow plays), not just as theater but in a broader social context. The revised edition has been completely reformatted and the quality of the rich artwork has been enhanced. 65 illustrations.
$16.95 (P)
 
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George McTurnan Kahin
Professor Kahin's classic 1952 study, reprinted for a contemporary audience. An immediate, vibrant portrait of a nation in the age of revolution, featuring interviews with many of the chief players. With new illustrations and a new introduction by Benedict R. O'G. Anderson.
$32.95 (P)
 
Indonesia

Soekarno.
A translation and analysis of Soekarno's 1926 essay. 1970. 2nd printing 1984. 62 pages
$7.95 (P)
 
Indonesia

Barbara S. Harvey
This title aptly signifies the several failed movements for increased regional autonomy over what was felt to be an economic and administrative overcentralization in Indonesia's capital of Java. Harvey's focus is especially important as it relates to the country's political development as a whole since these movements, in opposition to influence of Sukarno, the PKI, and the central army, led to the authoritative strengthening of all three. Based on research and fieldwork (e.g. interviews with participants in Permesta) conducted in 1971 and 1972, this monograph traces the course of the Permesta movement and rebellion in Sulawesi and casts light on central-regional relations in Indonesia. Various chapters survey the national context, the regional context, and the struggle itself. 1977. 174 pages.
$15.95 (P)
 
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Cornelis Fasseur & R.E Elson, eds.
The development of the Cultivation System from the years 1840 to 1860 is the focus of this work by the Dutch scholar Cornelis Fasseur. With extensive research into the archives and other source material (including a report by the British envoy in The Hague about the workings and peculiarities of the Dutch parliament), the author presents a general overview of Dutch policy and decision making. He considers how they influenced the development of the Cultivation System and how the Cultivation System influenced Dutch views of governance in Java. This study of a system of government agriculture and forced peasant labor reminds the reader of what is often forgotten-that political questions are often indistinguishable from economic ones. 2nd printing 1994. 266 pages.
$23.95 (P)
 
Indonesia

Howard M. Federspiel
Indonesia is an important center of Islamic writing and learning. Thus, an examination of sixty works of Indonesian literature on the Qur'an is of great cultural and religious significance. For the layman, Federspiel provides historical background on the growth of Islam and the importance of the Arabic language and defines unfamiliar terminology. A systematic study containing a bibliography, extracts from the works under consideration, and ratings of the works, this book is especially important in consideration of the reemergence of Islam both as a system of thought and as a political force in the twentieth century. 1994. 172 pages
$18.95 (P)
 
Indonesia

John M. Echols
This list of imprints (published in 1965) from the end of the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia in August 1945 to December 1949 provides a bibliography of publications on Indonesia-especially at the Cornell University Library (which, since then, has undergone significant expansion). This catalog is by no means comprehensive or complete, yet, prepared as it was during the revolution when materials in certain parts of Java and most of the outer islands were unavailable to the compiler, it reflects the uncertainties of the difficult and turbulent political situation. Contains approximately 1780 titles arranged by author and title catalogue and includes a subject index of co-authors, translators, preface writers, pseudonyms, and variant spellings. 1965. 186 pages.
$4.95 (P)
 
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Leon Salim & Audrey Kahin, trans.
A memoir about the events of the final days in Sumatra. Leon Salim, an activist hoping to accelerate the end of colonial rule in West Sumatra by organizing mass demonstrations there, was arrested along with other nationalist leaders by the Dutch. He was taken on the army's retreat from central Sumatra even as these captors were attempting to fend off an imminent attack by invading Japanese forces. In a day-by-day account of twenty days in March-April 1942, the author is alternately terse, detailed, and impassioned. Told with a reporter's eye (he deals as well with the more general aspects of Dutch administration in the Indies) but also intensely subjective and eminently fascinating. 1986. 112 pages.
$11.95 (P)
 
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Mohammad Hatta
This collection of documents-whose primary author is the Indonesian revolutionary leader, Mohammad Hatta-sheds new light on the organization Putera, which was composed mainly of the Indonesian political elite in collaboration with the Japanese. The main goals of the two were dissimilar, but the short-term goals and policies were the same and the failures, difficulties, and complexities of the organization are the main subject of these reports. Emphasizing the small successes and problems of the effort to bring various kinds of change and development to Java, these documents focus on local rather than national issues, and thus present a more realistic view of Japanese occupation. With sections on physical education, public welfare, women, the press and radio, and finance, they provide an interesting account of wartime Java. 1971. 114 pages.
$7.95 (P)
 
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Elizabeth Ann Swift
The armed conflict in Madiun, during the darkest and most violent year of the revolution, was a result of the escalating tension among various nationalist groups fighting for Indonesian independence and the frustration of the reinstitution of Dutch rule in certain areas. Swift documents the extraordinary impact of Musso, whose arrival presaged the creation of a new political force that aligned itself with Moscow (the PKI espoused a doctrine of international communism and little compromise). Yet after the renewed Dutch attack in December 1948, Indonesians of all ideologies were motivated to band together in the face of external threat, the PKI was rehabilitated, the supporters forgiven, and the top leaders executed. 1989. 120 pages.
$11.95 (P)
 
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Tim Kell
An analysis of the most recent uprising in Aceh, showing how central government exploitation of the region's natural resources, policies of overcentralization, and social changes have combined to open the way for an armed separatist movement to foment rebellion in the province. 1995. 103 pages.
$13.95 (P)
 
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Taufik Abdullah
Islam is a powerful force in Indonesian culture and politics and was especially so from the years 1927-1933 when the Kaum Muda ulama (Islamic modernist scholars) dominated Minangkabau social and political movements. Their activities, primarily in the realm of religion and education, had a great impact on Minangkabau society as a whole. This fascinating study explores the activities of the second generation of modernist scholars, the students of the Kaum Muda ulama, and their relationship to the Dutch colonizers, their surrounding environment, and their society. The author focuses especially upon that intersection between education, politics, and religion that was prominent until 1933 when the Dutch arrested several important leaders of the movement and dealt a blow to political activity. 1971. 257 pages.
$7.95 (P)
 
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Mason C. Hoadley
A major contribution to the understanding of Indonesian legal history. Hoadley shows how European colonialism skewed local legal institutions to serve colonial ends, and discusses a fascinating series of cases to show how this process evolved. 1994. 185 pages.
$20.95 (P)
 
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Sjahrir: Politics and Exile in Indonesia:
Politics and Exile in Indonesia

Rudolf Mrázek
A comprehensive biography of the Indonesian nationalist leader and Prime Minister of the Indonesian Republic, Sutan Sjahrir. Rudolf Mrázek's work is both a study of an individual and a study of the social conditions that shaped him. It moves from his birth in the Minangkabau region through his childhood, education, and early influences, and provides a detailed portrayal and analysis of Sjahrir's imprisonment and exile by the Dutch, and his experiences throughout the Japanese Occupation and the Indonesian Revolution. The author has conducted extensive research and interviews with those who knew Sjahrir personally, politically, and by reputation. 1994. (Oversized)
$31.95 (P)
 
Indonesia

Ruth McVey
The author focuses upon the Soviet Union's attitudes towards Indonesian nationalism (through the Indonesian Revolution of 1945-49) and communism (through the Indonesian Communist Party) and thus concentrates on Soviet doctrine rather than Indonesian domestic politics. After the changed international atmosphere following World War II, when practical considerations-though couched in ideological terms-superceded theoretical ones, the USSR (as seen through the media and government documents) gradually came to accept the increasing nationalist fervor and decreasing militancy in Indonesia. Extremely well-focused, well-researched, and immediate, it traces the causes and effects of words and deeds as they occurred. 1957. 3rd printing 1969. 90 pages.
$3.95 (P)
 
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Soemarsaid Moertono
Examines the theory and practice of kingship in the Later Mataram Period (16th to 19th centuries). The author takes an integrated approach in which each factor is studied from the importance of its functioning to the state, its place in the state organization, and its interaction with the other factors surveyed. Various chapter headings survey such diverse topics as the magical/religious implementation of kingship and its technical administration. This well-researched document grows from a tradition of scholarship on the Later Mataram period by the Dutch authors, Professors de Graaf and Schrieke. 1981. 2nd printing 1990. 180 pages.
$13.95 (P)
 
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State of Authority:
State in Society in Indonesia

Gerry van Klinken and Joshua Barker, eds.
A major realignment is taking place in the way we understand the state in Indonesia. New studies on local politics, ethnicity, the democratic transition, corruption, Islam, popular culture, and other areas hint at novel concepts of the state, though often without fully articulating them. This book captures several dimensions of this shift. One reason for the new thinking is a fresh wind that has altered state studies generally. People are posing new kinds of questions about the state and developing new methodologies to answer them. Another reason for this shift is that Indonesia itself has changed, probably more than most people recognize. It looks more democratic, but also more chaotic and corrupt, than it did during the militaristic New Order of 1966–1998. State of Authority offers a range of detailed case studies based on fieldwork in many different settings around the archipelago. The studies bring to life figures of authority who have sought to carve out positions of power for themselves using legal and illegal means. These figures include village heads, informal slum leaders, district heads, parliamentarians, and others. These individuals negotiate in settings where the state is evident and where it is discussed: coffee houses, hotel lounges, fishing waters, and street-side stalls. These case studies, and the broader trend in scholarship of which they are a part, allow for a new theorization of the state in Indonesia that more adequately addresses the complexity of political life in this vast archipelago nation. State of Authority demonstrates that the state of Indonesia is not monolithic, but is constituted from the ground up by a host of local negotiations and symbolic practices.
$23.95 (P)
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Indonesia

David Jenkins
During the years 1975 to 1983, a challenge to the rule of President Suharto within the Armed Forces of the Republic of Indonesia (ABRI) emerged from a debate over the role of the ABRI within society, its relations with other social-political groups, and the appointment of military officers to non-military positions within the government. The author provides an analysis of the regime's characteristics and theorizes about the future role of the ABRI within it. Using documentary evidence (the major papers prepared by all sides of the debate) as well as the personal recollections of army officers involved, the author gives a sense both of the personalities concerned and of the exercise of power. 1984. 4th printing, 1997. 300 pages.
$20.95 (P)
 
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Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
The first English translation of Professor Locher-Scholten’s 1994 Dutch text, which analyzes the action and reaction patterns between the Jambi sultanate in Sumatra and the Dutch in the framework of the modern imperialism debate. The Dutch text has been called “an excellent teaching tool for work on the Netherlands imperial project … [her] extensive archive work, in both Holland and Indonesia, her explicit reference to secondary theoretical works, and her useful lists mean that her analysis is transparent and accessible.”
$24.95 (P)
 
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer
This translation of fiction by the well-known (and suppressed) Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer is a welcome addition for any reader. With little traditional narrative structure and an often angry, ironical tone, these stories are intensely regional in flavor and modern in approach and make no apology for these facts. Usefully provided with footnotes in sections where translation of Pramoedya's language is especially difficult or distracts from the flavor of the story altogether (and is thus maintained in the original), this collection includes such works as Stranded Fish, Creatures Behind Houses, and the great Ketjapi. 1999. 142 pages.
$19.95 (P)
 
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Douglas Kammen & Siddharth Chandra
Major General Suharto seized command of the Indonesian military in October 1965 and appointed himself president only a short while after. Forced to resign in 1998 due to nation-wide outrage, protests, and riots, Suharto exemplifies how the military (and particularly the Army) have played a central role in Indonesian politics and intervened in all aspects of civilian life. The authors argue that the lack of support in the government and military for Suharto in 1998 originates from decisions made in the 1960s regarding the structure of the army. This monograph investigates trends in career advancement for officers (a line of study disregarded by other works that focus primarily upon ideological and political factors) and devotes painstakingly detailed attention to the bureaucratic dynamics that have had such extensive political implications. 1999. 98 pages.
$19.95 (P)
 
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Benedict R. O'G. Anderson, ed. Introduction by Benedict R. O'G. Anderson
These essays, many of which were originally published in the journal Indonesia, investigate institutionalized violence in New Order Indonesia and the ongoing legacy Suharto's dictatorship has conferred on the nation. The collection includes papers on East Timor, Aceh, Biak, police, and the Indonesian military, among other topics. 2001. 230 pages.
$23.95 (P)
 
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Dwight Y. King, trans.
This publication, produced by the BPHPR (which came formally into existence in April 1992) contains a detailed account of the infractions and fraud that occurred during the 1992 campaigns and election process and critiques the system of popular representation under the New Order. The introduction provides useful background information on current political systems. The White Book itself provides extensive information on the conduct of the New Order election and allows an in-depth look at the mechanics and technicalities that are necessary to democracy. This meticulously documented tract includes documents from the BPHPR in the appendices. 1994. 72 pages.
$13.95 (P)
 
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Saya S. Shiraishi
An exploration of the family as a cultural, historical, and political construction in New Order Indonesia. The author analyzes how children's everyday lives and schools are fundamentally shaped by national politics. The inextricable intertwining of family life and politics was a subtle but integral part of President's Soeharto's New Order ideology. Such cultural/historical constructs (based upon theories in education and the Armed Forces) present Indonesia as a family within a nation-state and allow the regime to rule (through bureaucracy and official language) over a society networked by intricate social connections built upon the ideas of kinship. With its extensive fieldwork and research into education, family life, politics, and the media, Shiraishi's work presents an in-depth view of the intricacies of Indonesian society and politics. 1997. 183 pages.
$20.95 (P)