A History of Modern Indonesia

Description:

• Author: Adrian Vickers
• Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
• Number of Pages:   306
• Publication Date:   2005-12-05
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0521834937
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780521834933
• Binding:   Paperback

Although Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world, its history is still relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers takes the reader on a journey across the social and political landscape of modern Indonesia, starting with the country's origins under the Dutch in the early twentieth-century, and the subsequent anti-colonial revolution which led to independence in 1949. Thereafter the spotlight is on the 1950s, a crucial period in the formation of Indonesia as a new nation, followed by the Sukarno years, and the anti-Communist massacres of the 1960s when General Suharto took over as president. The concluding chapters chart the fall of Suharto's New Order after thirty two years in power, and the subsequent political and religious turmoil which culminated in the Bali bombings in 2002. Adrian Vickers is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Wollongong. He has previously worked at the Universities of New South Wales and Sydney, and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Indonesia and Udayana University (Bali). Vickers has more than twenty-five years research experience in Indonesia and the Netherlands, and has travelled in Southeast Asia, the U.S. and Europe in the course of his research. He is author of the acclaimed Bali: a Paradise Created (Penguin, 1989) as well as many other scholarly and popular works on Indonesia. In 2003 Adrian Vickers curated the exhibition Crossing Boundaries, a major survey of modern Indonesian art, and has also been involved in documentary films, including Done Bali (Negara Film and Television Productions, 1993). 

Table of content

List of figures page vi

List of maps viii

Acknowledgements ix

Anote on spelling, pronunciation and names xi

Chronology xii

Introduction 1

1. Our colonial soil 9
2. Cultures of the countryside 33
3. ‘To assail the colonialmachine’ 58
4. The Revolution 85
5. Living in the atomic age 113
6. FromOld toNewOrders 142
7. Terror and development in happy land 169
8. Age of globalisation, age of crisis 197

Biographies of key figures 225

Abbreviations and glossary 233

About author

ADRIAN VICKERS is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Wollongong. He is author of the acclaimed Bali: a Paradise Created (1989), as well as many other scholarly and popular works on Indonesia.Heis aithor of the acclaimed Bali: a Paradise Created (1989), as well as many other scholarly and popular works on Indonesia.