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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Indonesia," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Indonesia in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Indonesia when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Indonesia, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This historiographic study of K'tut Tantri compares her autobiography, Revolt in Paradise, with other versions of her past, which question the image she has created of herself as a heroine of the Indonesian Revolution. ... Read more

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Revolt in Paradise
I met K'tut on a freighter headed for Southeast Asia, in 1969. First of all I thought she was a little weird..starting with the name.Long story short.She wasn't weird.Very interesting and a lot of fun.We became good friends and spent much time together.She introduced me to many of her good friends, and I found her to be one of the most intriguing people I've ever met.She gave me a copy of Revolt in Paradise and wrote some very nice dedacatory things on the fly-leaf.The book is wonderful, warm, exciting & scary and I think it would make a terrific film.Shirley Mac Laine was her choice...back then.?????
I was thinking about her and decided to Google her and here we are.Now I know.I wish she could Google me.We had some good times together.

From Bali to Surabaya...
This is a must read for anyone interested in Indonesian contemporary history and society. It is the story of the American woman who established the first hotel in Bali, later in life became known as the revolutionary "Surabaya Sue" and who died abroad forgotten by most. Her fabulous novel "Revolt in Paradise" was never made into a film, much to her frustration. Lindsey has done a fantastic job researching the archives and interviewing the old and somewhat bitter lady. ... Read more

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A Unique Book
This book contains information on the geology, flora, fauna and human population of Seram, based on the findings of 4 expeditions that took place between 1987 and 1991.
Special attention was paid to Manusela National Park, the only national park in Maluku.
Each chapter is written by different authors who areexperts on that particular field.
One can only wish that such a comprehesive work existed on other islands of Maluku as well! ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Indonesia," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Indonesia in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Indonesia when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Indonesia, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2007. The length of the article is 951 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A History of Modern Indonesia.(Book review)
Author: David Webster
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42Issue: 1Page: 158(2)

Article Type: Book review

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Indonesia's National Museum
This new guide (2007) to the highlights of Indonesia's National Museum is very welcome. It is reasonably priced, topically organized, and offers selective but blanced coverage of the Museum's holdings in prehistory, metal work, statues, textiles, and ethnographic artifacts. Good photographs, and short but informative object descriptions, combine with a few longer essays to give a good overview of the museum's history, current status, and aspirations for the future. Approximately 500 (my estimate) of the museum's 150,000 holdings are illustrated and discussed.

Some readers may want to know how this book compares to the earlier, 1992, "Art of Indonesia: Pusaka" from the same museum. "Pusaka" shows fewer objects, but in larger-format (and frankly, better) photographs. The essays in "Pusaka" focus on a single topic (pusaka = cultural and spiritual heritage), and are quite worthwhile for that very reason. Lovers of Indonesian art will want to have both books, because their differences compliment each other and both are very worthwhile. If I had to choose only one, it would be "Icons," just because it is more recent and gives the current insight into the museum's philosophy. Ideally, though, both books would occupy an honored place on any reader's bookshelf.
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best book
best book explaining indonesian economy from 1800 era to new order era. there're many detail with attached graph and statistics. ... Read more

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Illuminating account of the turbulent history of twentieth-century Indonesia.

Unfinished Nation traces the evolution of Indonesia from its anti-colonial stirrings in the early twentieth century to the lengthy, and eventually victorious, struggle against the dictatorship of President Suharto. In clarifying the often misunderstood political changes that took place in Indonesia at the end of the twentieth century, Max Lane traces how small resistance groups inside Indonesia directed massive political transformation. He shows how the real heroes were the Indonesian workers and peasants, whose sustained mass direct action was the determining force in toppling one of the most enduring dictatorships of modern times. Taking in the role of political Islam, and with considerations on the future of this fragmented country, Unfinished Nation is an illuminating account of modern Indonesian history.

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This analysis of US policy toward Indonesian nationalism argues that Truman's support for independence was based on his Cold War priorities and not principled backing for self-determination. It reveals how Eisenhower's New Look led to a disastrous CIA-backed intervention in 1957-58 and propelled Indonesia toward the Soviet bloc. Exposing the extent of Australian influence on US policy, this account reveals how the personal prejudices of Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles undermined the notion of rational policymaking.
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Muslims and Matriarchs is a history of an unusual, probably heretical, and ultimately resilient cultural system. The Minangkabau culture of West Sumatra, Indonesia, is well known as the world's largest matrilineal culture; Minangkabau people are also Muslim and famous for their piety. In this book, Jeffrey Hadler examines the changing ideas of home and family in Minangkabau from the late eighteenth century to the 1930s.

Minangkabau has experienced a sustained and sometimes violent debate between Muslim reformists and preservers of indigenous culture. During a protracted and bloody civil war of the early nineteenth century, neo-Wahhabi reformists sought to replace the matriarchate with a society modeled on that of the Prophet Muhammad. In capitulating, the reformists formulated an uneasy truce that sought to find a balance between Islamic law and local custom. With the incorporation of highland West Sumatra into the Dutch empire in the aftermath of this war, the colonial state entered an ongoing conversation.

These existing tensions between colonial ideas of progress, Islamic reformism, and local custom ultimately strengthened the matriarchate. The ferment generated by the trinity of oppositions created social conditions that account for the disproportionately large number of Minangkabau leaders in Indonesian politics across the twentieth century. The endurance of the matriarchate is testimony to the fortitude of local tradition, the unexpected flexibility of reformist Islam, and the ultimate weakness of colonialism. Muslims and Matriarchs is particularly timely in that it describes a society that experienced a neo-Wahhabi jihad and an extended period of Western occupation but remained intellectually and theologically flexible and diverse. ... Read more

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Ward argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent.Networks of Empire proposes that early modern empires were comprised of durable networks of trade,administration, settlement, legality, and migration whose regional circuits and territorially and institutionally based nodes of regulatory power operated not only on land and sea but discursively as well. Rights of sovereignty were granted to the Company by the States General in the United Provinces. Company directors in Europe administered the exercise of sovereignty by Company servants in its chartered domain.The empire developed in dynamic response to challenges waged by individuals and other sovereign entities operatingwithin the Indian Ocean grid.By closely examining the Dutch East India Company's network of forced migration this book explains how empires are constituted through the creation, management, contestation, devolution and reconstruction of these multiple andintersecting fields of partial sovereignty. ... Read more