A History of Modern Indonesia

Sampul Depan
Cambridge University Press, 3 Nov 2005 - 291 halaman
Although Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world, its history is still relatively unfamiliar and understudied. Guided by the life and writings of the country's most famous author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Adrian Vickers takes the reader on a journey across the social and political landscape of twentieth-century Indonesia in this innovative and timely account. He begins by explaining the country's origins under the Dutch in the early part of that century, the subsequent anti-colonial struggle and 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, which was 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. Drawing on insights from literature, art and anthropology, Adrian Vickers portrays a complex and resilient people borne out of a troubled past.
 

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Introduction
1
Our colonial soil
9
Cultures of the countryside
33
To assail the colonial machine
59
The Revolution
85
Living in the atomic age
113
From Old to New Orders
142
Terror and development in happy land
169
Age of globalisation age of crisis
197
Biographies of key figures
225
Abbreviations and glossary
233
Notes
237
Bibliography
263
Index
284
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Adrian Vickers is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He is author of the acclaimed Bali: A Paradise Created (1989) as well as many other scholarly and popular works on Indonesia.

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