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De Kraton van Majapahit

1948

#14

Raffles' Ideas on the Land Rent System in Java and the Mackenzie Land Tenure Commission

1954

#15

Nineteenth-Century Borneo

A Study in Diplomatic Rivalry

1955

Kandungan Prakata Singkatan Pada Nota Kaki. Pengenalan Bab 1. Raffles Dan Borneo Bab 2. Pemulihan Pemerintahan Belanda Bab 3. Perjanjian 1824 Bab 4. Raja Putih Sarawak Bab 5. James Brooke Dan Kerajaan Belanda Bab 6. Pembukaan Labuan Bab 7. Kontroversi Lanun Bab 8. Reaksi Belanda Bab 9. Taraf Negeri Sarawak Bab 10. Pembahagian Borneo Kesimpulan Lampiran a. Catatan Mengenai M SS. Kolonial Yang Disimpan Di Algemeen Rijksarchief b. Senarai Sumber c. Indeks Peta 1\. Borneo Bahagian Barat 2\. Borneo Bahagian Selatan Dan Timur 3\. Sarawak Dan Brunei 4\. Borneo Utara

#21

The Stone Age of Indonesia

1957

#22

The Bronze-Iron Age of Indonesia

1958

The art of metal casting was imported into Indonesia, but its peoples mastered the secrets of metallurgy, and applied these, in ways often original and unique, to create their own distinctive civilisation of the Bronze-Iron Age. In this handbook, which is a sequal to my The Stone Age of Indo nesia, I have endeavoured to assemble a comprehensive picture of the Indonesian Bronze-Iron Age from the results of excavations, innumerable stray finds in museums, and various studies scattered among numerous scientific journals and periodicals (often difficult to obtain). The resulting picture can, of course, be a tentative one only, valid until many more scientific excavations have taken place. I have added a bibliography, as complete as it was possible to assemble. The completion of this summary of the Prehistory of Indonesia has been assisted by a grant-in-aid from the Wenner Gren Foundation "The Viking Fund", New York. I am grateful to Mr. Basoeki and Mr. Soebokastowo for the drawings of Figures 1, 11, 12, 13, 22 and 16, 23, 24, 25 respectively. Figures 2-10 and 15 were drawn by the well-known artist, the late Mas Pirngadie, and are here published for the first time, with the generous permission of the Board of Directors of the "Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen", Djakarta. I am deeply grateful to my brother-in-law, Mr. J. H. Reiseger of Kempston, Bedfordshire, for so willingly undertaking the translation of the Dutch text into English.

#23

Puncak Kekuasaan Mataram

Politik Ekspansi Sultan Agung

1958

Ini adalah bagia keempat dari serial tulisan de Graaf mengenai Mataram. Mungkin adalah seri yang paling dibaca orang.

#27

The First Contest for Singapore 1819-1824

1959

#33

Disintegrasi Mataram Di Bawah Mangkurat I

1961

Diterjemahkan dari De regering van Sunan Mangkurat I Tegal-Wangi, vorst van Mataram, 1646-1677, tahun 1961, KITLV-Leiden Buku ini membicarakan awal masa pemerintahan Mangkurat I yang dinobatkan menjadi Sunan Mataram menyusul kematian Sultan Agung. Mewarisi kebesaran Mataram dari pendahulunya, Mangkurat pun mengangap dirinya sebagai penguasa tertinggi di seantero Nusantara. Dalam kenyataannya, kekuasaan politik Mataram justru menciut. Mengapa? Dikisahkan antara lain karena sang raja mementingkan politik mercu suar, terlampau dihantui kemungkinan pemberontakan, dan penuh kecurigaan terhadap orang-orang sekitarnya. Semuanya itu diungkapkan H.J. De Graaf dengan menggali sumber-sumber baik Eropa maupun Jawa.

#39

Runtuhnya Istana Mataram

1962

#40

Syair Perang Mengkasar

1963

Kitab ini berisi reportase sastrawi bergaya Melayu yang ditulis Enci’ Amin, Jurutulis Raja Gowa Sultan Hasanuddin, tak lama setelah berakhirnya Perang Makassar. Karya ini dengan lancar dan penuh detail menuturkan kejadian-kejadian di sekitar perang yang menyebabkan runtuhnya kekuasaan salah satu kerajaan terbesar di abad XVII, Kerajaan Gowa. Karya sastra ini dilengkapi pengantar dan catatan komprehensif yang sangat membantu pembaca memahami konteks dan tokoh-tokoh historis yang ada di dalamnya. SINOPSIS SYAIR PERANG MENGKASAR Pendahuluan (b.1-28) bait 1-12: doxology (puja-pujiaan) 13-24: persembahan dan sanjungan buat Sultan Goa 25-28: permohonan maaf pengarang Perang Dimulai (b.29-91) 29-40: Persiapan dan keberangkatan ekspedisi VOC ke Makassar. 41-66: Orang Makassar mengikrarkan sumpah setia kepada Sultan dan kebencian kepada VOC 67-91: pertukaran surat antara Sultan dengan VOC Ekspedisi VOC ke Buton (b.92-135) 92-135: kekalahan pasukan Makassar di bawah pimpinan Karaéng Bonto Marannu Eskpedisi VOC mengunjungi Maluku (b.156-148) 136-143: Sultan Ternaté bergabung dengan ekspedisi 144-148: sanjungan buat Sultan Goa Pemberontakan orang Bugis (b.149-206) 149-174: Sultan Tallo’ mengalahkan orang Bugis di Mampu 175-183: juga di Pattiro 184-203: pemenang kembali ke Makassar 204-206: permohonan maaf pengarang tentang kekurangakuratannya Perang Makassar Pertama (b.207-423) 207-222: armada VOC tiba di sekitar Makassar: Bantaéng diserang 223-239: utusan Speelman dihina 240-247: Makassar mempersiapkan serangan 248-282: pertempuran pada hari pertama—saling-bombardir 283-290: pengeboman berlanjut 291-292: ‘pengarang mohon dikenang’ 293-306: upaya VOC untuk menguasai Batu-Batu dipatahkan 307-324: VOC menyerang Galésong 325-366: VOC mendarat di Batu-Batu: pertempuran sengit berkecamuk 367-385: korban di pihak Makassar 386-401: perundingan damai; kepanikan 402-414: sanjungan buat Sultan Goa dan Tallo’ 415-423: perdamaian disepakati. VOC di Ujung Pandang (b.424-459) 424-435: VOC menetap; orang Makassar muak 436-448: beberapa Karaéng dari Makassar membelot ke VOC dan bergabung dalam penyerangan ke Sanraboné 449-459: bala bantuan dikirim dari Makassar ke Sanraboné di bawah pimpinan Karaéng Jarannika. Perang Makassar Kedua (b.460-513) 460-471: serangan VOC ke Sanraboné dipatahkan 472-477: Perwakilan Dagang Inggris dibakar; serangan VOC dipukul mundur 478-486: pertempuran berlanjut 487-513: penyerbuan terhadap pusat pertahanan Makassar yang tersisa; benteng dihancurkan; pasukan Makassar mundur ke Goa. Penutup (b.514-534) 514: moral cerita 515-519: perjanjian damai terakhir dari Perang Makassar 520-524: kesimpulan pengarang 525-534: pengarang mengungkapkan identitas dirinya dan mohon maaf untuk kali terakhir.

#44

The Nimboran Language

Phonology and Morphology

1965

#45

The Merok Feast of the Sa'dan Toradja

1965

I wish, first, to express my gratitude to the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde, which has kindly arranged for this book to be printed. I am also indebted to the Gereformeerde Zendingsbond in de Neder- lands Hervormde Kerk and the Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap for the financial aid they have given. Furthermore I would like to thank particularly Jeune Scott-Kemball for the conscientious manner, in which she has translated this paper and the pains she has taken to translate into excellent English my Dutch rendering of the difficult language of the Texts. The spelling used for the South Toradja text is that of present-day Bahasa Indonesia with the following the glottal check, found in South Toradja only as a syllable-or word-final, is not written as k but indicated by an apostrophe, for example, untaku' not untakuk; and the velar nasal, because it is sometimes protracted in speech and must then be duplicated in writing, is not written ng but f}, for example, la13i' not langi'; tary13a not tangnga. The spelling of South Toradja words in the translation and notes differs from this system in two y is used instead of j, for example, kayu = kaju (text); o-e instead of oe, for example, Lo-erara' (trans.) = Loerara' (text). The hyphen is used only to make it clear that each vowel must be pronounced.

#50

The Peasants' Revolt of Banten in 1888

Its Conditions, Course and Sequel: A Case Study of Social Movements in Indonesia

1966

This book is about the social movements in Indonesia.

#53

[(Music in New Guinea

Three Studies)] [Author: Jaap Kunst] published on

1967

wraps,with foldout

#57

Government in Wanggulam

1958

#59

Pergumulan Islam di Indonesia 1945-1970

1971

Perjuangan NU juga tidak bisa dilepaskan dari cita-cita besar menjadikan Islam sebagai agama negara, menjadi dasar negara, menuju sebuah negara Islam. KH Wahid Hasyim memang memanfaatkan rancangan Pembukaan yang diusulkan tersebut sebagai suatu titik tolak untuk pengaturan lebih lanjut menuju suatu negara Islam. “Kalau presiden adalah seorang Muslim, maka peraturan- peraturan akan mempunyai ciri Islam dan hal itu akan besar pengaruhnya. Tentang Islam sebagai agama negara, hal ini akan penting artinya bagai pertahanan negara. Umumnya, pertahanan yang didasarkan kepada keyakinan agama akan sangat kuat, karena menurut ajaran Islam orang hanya boleh mengorbankan jiwanya untuk ideologi agama.”, tegas KH. A. Wahid Hasyim, salah seorang tokoh NU terkemuka. BJ. Boland, “Pergumulan Islam di Indonesia”

#62

The Khilafat movement in India, 1919-1924.

1972

This title addresses the Khilafat Movement in India, a pan-Islamic, political protest campaign launched by Muslims of India to influence the British government not to abolish the Ottoman Caliphate.

#63

Chairil Anwar

: the poet and his language.

1972

#66

Cultuur als antwoord

1973

A bundle of essays.

#69

Kerajaan Islam Pertama di Jawa

Tinjauan Sejarah Abad XV dan XVI

1974

#70

Islamic states in Java 1500-1700, A Summary, Bibliography and Index

Eight Dutch Books and Articles by H.J. de Graaf

1976

The growing interest in the history of Indonesia has made it desirable to have an English summary of the principal works of the Dutch historian Dr H. J. de Graaf, who in several books and articles published between 1935 and 1973 has given a description of the development of the Javanese kingdom of Mataram, based both on European and in digenous material. His works form a substantial contribution to the study of the national history of Indonesia. The Summary contains references to the paragraphs of the Dutch books and articles. This makes it easy for those readers who have a know ledge of Dutch to consult the original texts. The List of Sources for the study of Javanese history from 1500 to 1700 is composed of the lists in the summarized books and articles, and the Index of Names refers not only to the present Summary but also to the eight original texts. Many names of persons and localities in the Index have been provided with short explanatory notes and references to other lemmata as a quick way to give some provisional information on Javanese history.

#73

The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic

1975

The work is concerned with the reconstruction of the phonemes of Proto-Malayo-Javanic, the last proto-language which is directly continued by the Sundanese, Javanese, Malay, and Madurese.

#74

Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion

Essays in Honour of Jan van Baal

1975

This Festschrift is dedicated to Prof. Dr. J. van Baal on the occasion of his retirement from the chair of cultural anthropology at the University of Utrecht. The essays presented here are written by fellow scholars in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of anthropology. In order to arrange the papers araund a theme that has never ceased to fascinate van Baal, we have asked the contributors to concentrate on a rel igious subject. Within this broad area no specific topics have been solicit ed, and the authors—mainly fellow anthropologists and students of relig ion—have been able to pursue their own personal interests in the articles. Nevertheless, when the papers were collected, we found it possible to group them under three headings, each of which represents a facet of ·1an Baal's enduring interests. Of course, some overlap is inevitable, as it is in any categorisation of heterogeneaus items. The topics of the three sections by no means represent an exhaustive inventory of all fields van Baal has successfully explored. The focus on religion necessarily leaves out many problems van Baal has actively occ- ied hirnself with during his many-sided career. Thus the academic stance of the Festschrift in no way pays tribute to his prolonged concern with admi.

#76

Curacao and Guzman Blanco

a case study of small power politics in the Caribbean

1974

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#79

De slimme en de domme

Ngadju-Dajakse volksverhalen

1976

The authors worked as doctors in Kalimantan between 1949 and 1959, where they were first introduced to Ngaju Dayak tales. The present anthology contains 20 tales given to them by the Rev. Munte Saha. Both the original text and the Dutch translation are provided. Ten of these are about Sangumang, the cunning one, who used to fool his uncle, the king. The other ten deal with Bapa Paloi, the stupid one, who is constantly being admonished by his wife. Sangumang and Bapa Paloi live in the upper-world, and mythological tales are told of their exploits. In addition to the 20 tales, a modern version of a Bapa Paloi tale is presented, written by the Rev. Munte Saha himself. The scene of this modern tale is not the upper-world but the present island of Kalimantan.

#81

Directions for Travellers on the Mystic Path

1977

Zakariyya al-Ansari's Kitab fath al-rahman and its Indonesian adaptations : with an appendix on Palembang ... voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 81)

#82

Mengikuti Jejak Leijdecker jilid 2

(1900-1970) : Satu Setengah Abad Penerjemahan Alkitab dan Penelitian Bahasa-bahasa Nusantara

1978

Buku jilid kedua ini berisi informasi penerjemahan Alkitab tahun 1900-1970. Periode ini ditandai dengan kemandirian beberapa gereja lokal, perkembangan bahasa Melayu menjadi bahasa Indonesia, dan semakin berperannya orang Indonesia dalam proses penerjemahan. Dalam periode ini lahir sejumlah terjemahan baru, sedangkan beberapa terjemahan lama mengalami revisi yang dalam prosesnya melibatkan sinode gereja setempat.

#83

Nuaulu Settlement and Ecology

An Approach to the Environmental Relations of an Eastern Indonesian Community

1978

Originally presented as the author's thesis, London.

#84

Toean Keboen dan Petani

Politik Kolonial dan Perjuangan Agraria

1978

#86

Property in Social Continuity

Continuity and Change in the Maintenance of Property Relationships through Time in Minangkabau, West Sumatra

1979

Learn the laws of inheritance and teach them to the people; for they are one half of useful knowledge. t·1ohannned (Fyzee 1955: 329) When the prophet created this aphorism he had in mind the rules of in heritance law revealed to him by Allah. We could apply it to social an thropology as well sincethe inheritance of property and the succession to positions of socio-political authority are among the most important elements of social organization. They are the vehicles of continuity which maintain property and authority through time. In many societies, and particularly in those generally studied by anthropologists, inherit ance and succession are closely interconnected with kinship and descent and provide the economic and political substance for the existence and continuity of kinship- or descent-based social groups. They are, as it were, the flesh on the bare bones of kinship relations. The importance of inheritance has, of course, not escaped the notice of social and legal anthropologists, and in recent years several studies have ably demonstrated the point (Radcliffe-Brown 1952, Goodenough 1951, Leach 1961 b, Goody 1962, Lloyd 1962, Gray and Gulliver (eds. ) 1964, Derrett (ed. ) 1965, Gluckman 1972, Moore 1969, Burling 1974). Yet in general, property and inheritance have rather been treated as an appendix to economic and kinship studies.

#88

Javanese Literature Since Independence

1979

#90

1982

#97

Sengketa Agraria

Pengusaha Perkebunan Melawan Petani

1982

#98

Migration and Its Alternatives among the Iban of Sarawak

1982

#99

Jan Verschueren’s Description of Yéi-Nan Culture

Extracted From the Posthumous Papers

1982

Joannis Cornelis Verschueren (1905-1970) worked as a Roman Catholic missionary in southern Irian from 1931 until 1970. In the 1950s he wrote a number of papers on the Yéi. These papers, based on older field notes and a research trip through the area, are recapitulated in this volume. Verschueren provides genuine inside information and his data are new and authentic. The four papers in this volume create a picture of a typical lowland culture with a surprising emphasis on headhunting, an uncommon way of segregating the sexes, and a highly elaborated system of phallic symbolism. Topics discussed in this volume are territorial, clan and moiety organization; kinship, marriage and conjugal life; the founding myths of Yéi-nan ritual and other rituals; initiation; sickness and healing; death, burial and mortuary feasts; other ceremonies.

#101

Penguasaan Tanah dan Tenaga Kerja

Jawa di Masa Kolonial

1983

Perombakan tanah di Cirebon pada awal abad ini justru merugikan kaum petani. Dominasi kepentingan industri gula serta sikap kontradiktif pemerintah kolonial telah menggagalkan tujuan perombakan tanah untuk menumbuhkan kelas petani yang kuat. Jan Breman mengungkapkan latar belakang dan berlangsungnya usaha yang senantiasa sulit dan berimplikasi politik ini. Edisi Indonesia Control of Land and Labour in Colonial Java (Leiden: KITLV, 1983). Pengantar: Sajogyo.

#103

Unity in Diversity

Indonesia As a Field of Anthropological Study

1984

This collective volume contains papers and comments on these papers from an international symposium on "Indonesia as a Field of Anthropological Study" held in Leiden, 22-26 November 1982. The following contributions are P.E. de Josselin de Jong, "A field of anthropological study in transformation" (with comments by G.B. Milner) / Robert Blust, "Indonesia as a 'Field of Linguistic Study'" / A. Teeuw, "Indonesia as a 'Field of Literary Study'. A case genealogical narrative texts as an Indonesian literary genre" (with comments by Els Postel) / Sandra Niessen, "Textiles are female... but what is femaleness? Toba Batak textiles in the Indonesian field of ethnological study" (with comments by Wolfgang Marschall) / David S. Moyer, "South Sumatra in the Indonesian Field of Anthropological Study" (with comments by C.W. Watson) / J.J.J.M. Wuisman, "The Rejang and the Field of Anthropological study concept" (with comments by William D. Wilder) / Peter J.M. Nas, "Settlements as The Indonesian town as a Field of Anthropological Study" / Hans-Dieter Evers, "Cities as a 'Field of Anthropological Studies' in South-East Asia" / R. Hagesteijn, "Continental Southeast Asian political myths compared" / J.D.M. Platenkamp, "The Tobelo of Eastern Halmahera in the context of the Field of Anthropological study" (with comments by Cécile Barraud) / L.E. Visser, "Who are the Sahu and what do they belong to?" (with comments by E.K.M. Masinambow) / Rodney Needham, "The transformation of prescriptive systems in Eastern Indonesia" / P.E. de Josselin de Jong, "Summary and conclusions"

#107

Early Tenth Century Java from the Inscriptions

A Study of Economic, Social, and Administrative Conditions in the First Quarter of the Century

1984

This book relates in particular to the Javanese inscriptions of the period A.D. 901-929, a time of special interest because of the transfer of royal government from Central to East Java. With the aid of inscriptions from this period, as well as before and after, it is possible to draw tentative conclusions which seek the explanation for this shift not so much in the area of political but of socio-economic history. This is the first study to pay attention to the role of socio-economic factors in early Javanese history.

#108

The Maloh of West Kalimantan

An Ethnographic Study of Social Inequality and Social Change among An Indonesian Borneo People

1985

#111

Overwicht in Overleg (Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land)

1985

This study sketches the way in which Dutch colonial authority penetrated in the Vorstenlanden of Central Java. The focus is on the relations of the Dutch government with the Javanese princes in the fields of legal matters, agriculture (land use) and administration. Chapters 1,2,3,5 and 6 place the relationship government-princes within the context of the 19th century developments in these fields. The last three chapters discuss the legal and agricultural reorganizations that took place in the 20th century, and their consequences. The focus is on the decision-making process preceding the reorganization. Ch. 4 looks at the European administration in the Javanese Gouvernementslanden, in order to compare the situation there with the Vorstenlanden .

#115

Cultural Contact and Textual Interpretation

1986

This collective volume contains several articles on Indonesia.

#118

The Sa’dan-Toraja

A Study of Their Social Life and Religion

2014

Vol. 2 Dordrecht, Holland; Cinnaminson, Foris Publications.

#121

A Men of Indonesian Letters

1986

English, Dutch

#123

Taming the Coolie Beast

Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in Southeast Asia

1987

This is a study of the plantation system on the East Coast of Sumatra, a Dutch colony, from the early 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The Rhemrev Report, which exposed the scandalous state of affairs on the plantations, is here placed in its historical and social context.

#128

Wörterbuch Der Priestersprache Der Ngaju-Dayak (Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land)

1987

The Ngaju-Dayak tribes of southern Borneo still adhere to their traditional religion, even though Christian missionary work began there in 1835. Their traditional religion, agama kaharingan, is presently the only autochthonous religion in South East Asia that is officially recognized by the government. Their ritual texts have been written down and are embodied in a priest language ( bahasa sangiang ). Martin Baier has compiled terms and examples of this language and presents modern Ngaju and Indonesian equivalents of these, as well as a German translation.

#132

Madura dalam Empat Zaman

Pedagang, Perkembangan Ekonomi, dan Islam

1988

Deze economisch-antropologische studie gaat over de rol van handelaren en handelsallianties in het proces van economische verandering dat in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw op het eiland Madura op gang kwam na de invoering van het rechtstreekse koloniale bestuur. Het boek begint met een uiteenzetting over de sociaal-geografische omstandigheden en de historische achtergronden van het proces van economische veranderingen, waarbij het eiland geleidelijk werd betrokken in het Indonesische handelsverkeer. In het tweede deel wordt ingegaan op de economie van het dorp Prenduan, waar De Jonge een jaar veldwerk deed, is een van de belangrijkste handelsplaatsen aan de zuidkust van Madura. Sinds de ontsluiting van het eiland spelen handelaren uit het dorp een voortrekkers rol in de Madurese economie. Het laatste deel van het boek beschrijft de belangrijkste groep ondernemers uit het dorp, de tabakshandelaren. Tabak vormt het voornaamste produkt van Madura. Handelaren uit Prenduan beheersen de handel in het oostelijke deel van het eiland en monopoliseren de belangrijke handelscontacten met Java. Hun activiteiten zijn in belangrijke mate bevorderd door de verbreiding en verfijning van de islam. Dankzij deze godsdienst konden ze zich als groep emanciperen en hun positie legitimeren. De ontwikkelingen in de takbakswereld zijn in hoge mate representatief voor de veranderingen in andere handelssectoren. De auteur verschaft in dit boek nieuwe inzichten in de aard van economische ontwikkeling in perifere gebieden, rol van handelaren in dit proces en de relatie handel en islam.

#133

Penyempurnaan Ejaan

Pembahasan dan Pembaharuan Ejaan di Indonesia dan Malaysia 1900-1972

1988

#139

A Grammar of the Muna Language

1989

Doctoral thesis

#140

Sundanese Music in the Cianjuran Style

Anthropological and Musicological Aspects of Tembang Sunda

1989

#141

Een Haan in Oorlog

1990

Het Buginees—met een geschat aantal sprekers van tweeëneenhalf miljoen de grootste taal van Zuid-Sulawesi—kent een eeuwenlange schriftelijke overleving. Daaronder bevinden zich belangwekkende producten van historiografische en letterkundige aard. Hoe erkend belangrijk deze ook zijn, wetenschappelijke verantwoorde edities van dergelijke teksten zijn schaars, een omstandigheid die voor een groot deel kan worden verlaard door de aard van het Buginese schrift dat vatbaar is voor meerdere uitleg. In de hier uitgegeven tekst zijn op geraffineerde wijze literaire en historische elementen met elkaar vervlochten. In de vorm van een heldendicht, toloq, wordt het verhaal verteld van Arung Labuaja, een op Zuid-Sulawesi nog steeds roemrucht hoofd met grote militair-tactische talenten. Ruime plaats is in het gedicht toegekend aan de gebeurtenissen tijdens de door het Nederlands-Indische leger uitgevoerde Vierde Boné-expeditie van 1905, waarna het Bonése vorstenbestuur ophield te functioneren en werd vervangen door het Nederlands gezag. Met Arung Labuaja als middelpunt van het verhaal, vervult de tekst—gehuld in poëtisch gewaad—de hoofdzakelijke Nederlandse bronnen over de periode op verscheidene punten aan. De hier gepresenteerde uitgave van de Toloqna Arung Labuaja beoogt aan zijn literaire, geschiedkundige en teksthistorische aspecten recht te doen, in de overtuiging dat een teksteditie meer behoort te zijn dan transcriptie en verheldering en verklaring van de tekst dient altijd voorop te staan.

#142

The Symbolic System of the Giman of South Halmahera

1989

#143

Nationalists, Soldiers and Separatists

The Ambonese Islands from Colonialism to Revolt, 1880-1950

2008

On 25 April 1950 the Republic of the South Moluccas was proclaimed in Ambon Town. Not until December, after a breakdown in negotiations and a protracted battle, did the Indonesian army take control of Ambon Island. In remote parts of inhospitable Ceram, RMS remnants held out until 1962.This book examines the revolt of the Republic of the South Moluccas in the context of the social and economic changes experienced in Ambonese society during the last century of colonial rule. The author focuses on the emergence of a new group of Christian émigrés - officials, teachers and soldiers - who left their homeland in the service of the Netherlands Indies government, and the dilemma posed for this group by Indonesian nationalism. The upheavals of the Japanese occupation and the Indonesian struggle for independence left Ambon with embryonic democratic institutions, dominated by Ambonese supporters of the Indonesian Republic. The Republic of the South Moluccas was an attempt by some returned émigrés - soldiers and civilians - together with members of the traditional village élite, to (re)establish their authority and preserve their society's independence from the Jakarta government. Chauvel concludes that the proclamation of an independent state, devoid of any forethought or planning, proved a tragedy for the society it was meant to protect.Nationalists, soldiers and separatists is the first work to give such a detailed review of the political developments of Ambon and the Ambonese. It is based on extensive research in government archives in Indonesia, the Netherlands and Australia and on interviews in these three countries with participants from all sides involved.

#146

State and Society in Bali

1991

Balinese texts, temples, theatre performances and rituals, in seven essays, are placed into specific political contexts in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the changing relations between state and society on the complex island of Bali. How have local communities been linked to various claimants to state sovereignty through Bali's history? What have been the forms and functions of the institutions that have joined peasants with kings and bureaucrats? How have these institutions changed and in what ways have they remained the same over the centuries? How have these relationships been represented by Balinese to themselves? And, how should research on these issues be carried further forward? The contributors to this volume I Gusti Ngurah Bagus, Hildred Geertz, Henk Schulte Nordholt, Raechelle Rubinstein, David J. Stuart Fox, Adrian Vickers, and Carol Warren represent the disciplines of anthropology, literature and history, but all of them cut creatively across disciplinary lines. In contrast to previous Bali research, these studies put more emphasis on historical background and pay close attention to local Balinese perspectives. Early and colonial history form the frame of several papers, while others deal with major changes in the recent past. While each paper taken alone has its own specialized concerns, if the set is read as a series an outline can be discerned, not only of Balinese history and culture, but also of some characteristic features of the new research on Bali being carried out in the 1980s. The interdisciplinary approach of this volume makes it challenging reading for a wider audience of Southeast Asianists."

#147

Excursies in Celebes

1991

Dutch, English

#148

Novel Berbahasa Jawa

1992

#150

Sistem Tanam Paksa di Jawa

1992

#151

The Morphology of Wambon of the Irian Jaya Upper Digul Area

With An Introduction to Its Phonology

1992

In this book an outline is given of the morphology of Wambon with an emphasis on placing the data in the wider context of the present typological knowledge about Papuan languages. The descriptions are amply illustrated by examples. These examples, mostly taken from recorded texts, have been provided with word-for-word glosses and English translations. Four Wambon texts complete the description.

#152

Women and Mediation in Indonesia

1992

This volume is the product of an international workshop on Women and Mediation, organized in Leiden in 1988 by the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) and the Werkgroep Indonesische Vrouwenstudies (WIVS), a Dutch interdisciplinary study group on Indonesian women. The book contains a selection of fourteen contributions sociological, anthropological, and historical ranging geographically from Sabang to Merauke from the Toba Batak (North Sumatra) to the Dani (Irian Jaya). Loosely centred around the concept of mediation, many of the articles include new data derived from archival research and fieldwork. One cluster of articles concentrates on theoretical questions concerning the concept of mediation. Another cluster deals with brokerage in the economic and social fields. A third cluster focuses on mediation in the cultural domain, which many extend to mediation between different cultures (elite-agrarian, Western-Indonesian) or between the human and the suprahuman world, between macrocosm and microcosm. Mediation by women has been overlooked not only in the social sciences in general but also in the field of women studies in particular. The present volume explores the theme of mediation by women in general, and in Indonesia in particular."

#155

Seni Tari Jawa

Tradisi Surakarta dan Peristilahannya

1995

Traditional Surakarta dances and the terminology.

#157

Gentle Janus, Merchant Prince

The VOC and the Tightrope of Diplomacy in the Malay World, 1740-1800

1993

#162

Perang Cina dan Runtuhnya Negara Jawa 1725-1743

1994

Inilah studi yang untuk pertama kalinya memaparkan catatan mendetail, didasarkan pada arsip-arsip Belanda dan babad tradisional Jawa, perihal sejarah Jawa antara 1725-1743.

#164

Kraton and Kumpeni

1995

The Javanese realms of Surakarta and Yogyakarta in Central Java were of prime importance in the politics of the Netherlands Indies, located, as they were, at the heart of the Dutch colonial state. This book covers forty years of the history of the Javanese Principalities in the post-Java War period (1830-1870). The first part deals with the delicate political balance that was constructed between each Javanese Kraton and the Dutch colonial state, or 'Kumpeni' (Company), as it was still called by the Javanese. Attention is given not only to Dutch-Javanese relations, but also to the various interconnections between the Javanese princes themselves. The second part is devoted to an indepth analysis of the Javanese response to the new pressures imposed on them. Finally, this monograph offers a review of social and economic changes taking place in Central Java in the midnineteenth century, largely as a result of the rise of private plantation enterprise after 1830.

#165

Ancient Indonesian Sculpture

1994

Ancient Indonesian sculpture, as yet a relatively unexplored area of research, is discussed in this volume from various angles. The nine contributions originate from an international symposium at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

#168

Nationalism And Regionalism In A Colonial Context

Minahasa In The Dutch East Indies

1996

This book describes and analyses Minahasan regional nationalism in the period up to 1942. Attention is given to precolonial antecedents, to the transformations brought about by compulsory coffee cultivation, Christian mission activity and Western education, to the role of local representative councils, to the privileged position which Minahasans came to occupy relative to other Indonesians within the colonial state, and to the ambiguous relationship between Minahasa and the Indonesian nationalist movement.

#169

Desawarnana

Nagarakrtagama

Ritual Life and Religious Reform in Central Borneo

1998

"Kayan Religion" is an ethnographic account of the rituals and beliefs of Central Borneo swidden agriculturists, written at the request of the Baluy Kayan of Sarawak to preserve their religion for future generations.

#181

Beyond the Realm of Senses

The Balinese Ritual of Kekawin Composition

2000

This book is the first comprehensive study of the practice of "kekawin" composition in Bali. Based on field research and a diverse range of palm leaf texts, it explores Balinese perceptions of "kekawin" composition and demonstrates the nexus between religion and the writing of these poems. Like "kekawin" from ancient Java, Balinese "kekawin" have been conceived as a mystical means of unification with divinity, as temples of language.

#182

A Quest for Justice

The Millenary Aspirations of a Contemporary Javanese Wali

2000

This book is a remarkable study of a contemporary Javanese millenarian community based on a careful and nuanced exposition of the ideas of this community and its leader, Embah Wali, who looked to the coming of the Just King (Ratu Adil) in the person of the Sultan of Yogya. In the Blitar region (East Java), where the community is centred, Embah Wali and his followers created a world in which wayang functioned as the basis for an interpretation of living and being in the world.

#183

A demographic history of the Indonesian archipelago, 1880-1942

1999

The author offers a reconstruction of regional variations in the growth of the indigenous population of Indonesia from 1880 till the Japanese invasion in 1942. The demographic components of population growth (migration, fertility and mortality) are not only presented as demographic statistics but also interpreted as the aggregate effects of major events in the lives of indigenous people. Hence, migration is described in relation to employment opportunities, the social structure, and tradition; fertility is examined in the light of aspects of family formation, including marriage customs and birth control practices; and mortality is linked to epidemics and Western health care.

#184

Dependence on Green Gold

A Socio Economic History of the Indonesian Coconut Island Selayar

1999

Selayar, an island off the coast of Southwest Sulawesi and belonging to the Makassarese-Buginese realm, is dry and rocky, with a fragile subsistence economy. Yet in the late colonial period its economy prospered, as it became an important supplier of copra, or dried coconut, extensively used in the Western oil and fats industry as a raw material for soap and margarine. In the 1920s, the heyday of copra trade, many Selayarese converted their profits from the copra trade into gold teeth and hard cash. Copra thus earned the reputation of 'green gold'. In this book the author analyses the socio-economic history of Selayar between 1600 and 1950 from an Asiacentric perspective. This is linked to wider socio-economic and political developments, including peripheralization, integration into the world market, and colonial incorporation. The themes discussed are of interest to anyone studying the development of maritime societies: commercialization necessitated by a fragile agricultural system, export specialization, trading networks, migration and the unifying role of Islam.

#185

Grandchildren of the Ga'e Ancestors

Social Organization and Cosmology among the Hoga Sara of Flores

2000

Grandchildren of the Gaie Ancestors" focuses on the social organization, cosmology and ritual system of Hoga Sara society on the island of Flores. The first anthropological account of this eastern Indonesian people, this study challenges the classical models of descent and alliance by demonstrating the limitations of these analytical abstractions for understanding the social system of the Hoga Sara.

#186

A Country in Despair

Indonesia Between 1997 and 2000

2001

This book traces recent developments in Indonesia, opening with the explosion of violence preceding the general election of May 1997, and ending with developments in November and December 2000.

#187

Jakarta Batavia

Esai Sosio Kultural

2001

Tahukah Anda kalau Jalan Flamboyan dipakai di 200 tempat di Jabotabek; kalau Jakarta memang sudah ruwet sejak awal didirikan Kompeni; kalau nyamuk menewaskan warga kota pesisir ini bukan tahun-tahun terakhir ini saja; kalau ada persaingan sengit sesama etnis Arab di Jakarta pada masa lalu; kalau komik setrip Put On bukan sekadar lucu melainkan juga menggambarkan situasi batin warga peranakan Tionghoa dari masa ke masa? Tahukah Anda betapa banyaknya hal memikat tentang Jakarta ? Buku Jakarta Batavia memuat esai-esai dari dua puluh satu penulis Timur dan Barat. Beberapa di antara mereka telah menetap lama di Jakarta. Keseluruhan penulis ini mempunyai satu persamaan, mereka semuanya tertarik pada karakteristik kehidupan Jakarta yang mempunyai banyak segi. Masalah yang dibahas berkisar dari kondisi pada masa Batavia VOC sampai ke masalah komunitas etnik dan bangsa, dan juga masalah perkembangan pemerintahan administratif.

#188

Kuasa dan Usaha di Masyarakat Sulawesi Selatan

2000

Beragam citra dan stereotip yang tersebar luas ditujukan untuk orang Bugis, Makassar, juga sukunya lain di Sulawesi Selatan. Banyak di antaranya yang berlawanan satu sama lain. Penduduk Sulawesi Selatan dilukiskan sebagai pelaut yang berani, perantau yang lihai, bangsawan feodal dan pengikutnya, penganut paham kebebasan demokratis yang hanya mengakui pemerintahan yang dibentuk berdasarkan kontrak sosial, pemeluk agama Islam yang fanatik, pemuja benda-benda pusaka kerajaan tradisional dan pelaksana ritual bagi leluhur dan dewa yang turun ke bumi. Kesan ini tentu masih memerlukan pembahasan lebih lanjut. Pembahasan tentang Sulawesi Selatan di buku ini meliputi: dokumen kolonial yang diperhadapkan dengan naskah-naskah pribumi, homogenitas Sulawesi Selatan ditinjau dari perspektif budaya dan politik, hubungan antara status dan kekuasaan, kepemimpinan dan hubungan patron-klien, pengaruh asing dan budaya lokal, perdagangan maritim dan posisi Sulawesi Selatan dalam jaringan perdagangan internasional, kultur daerah dan pembangunan sosial-ekonomi, serta diaspora. Topik-topik itulah yang dihampar-bentang dalam buku ini oleh Christian Pelras, Anthony Reid, J Noorduyn, Roger Tol, Greg Acciaioli, Martin Rössler, Brigitt Röttger-Rössler, Anton Lucas, R.Z. Leirissa, Heather Sutherland, dan Chris de Jong.

#189

Forests of Fortune?

The Environmental History of Southeast Borneo, 1600-1880

2001

The onslaught on the Bornean rain forest is a recurrent theme in the media today. Studies dealing with the island, however, have largely ignored the long-term antecedents of modern environmental changes and problems. Yet phenomena such as forest fires, logging, the decimation of animal populations, and lack of arable land are far from new, even for a sparsely populated island like Borneo. This book is the first attempt to deal with the long-term interrelation between humans and their environment in Borneo, going back to the moment when first historical information becomes available in the early seventh century. The book deals with the relationship between people and the natural environment in Southeast Borneo, based on many hitherto unused primary sources. It describes the ways in which people made a living within the wide range of environments found here, focusing on agriculture, hunting, fishing, animal husbandry, forest exploitation, and the collection of products for the market. It deals with the impact of these activities on the natural environment and attempts to explain why most areas were strikingly little affected until modern times, yet others showed clear signs of human occupation and exploitation from an early date.

#190

Extremes in the Archipelago

Trade and Economic Development in the Outer Islands of Indonesia, 1900-1942

2001

In the late colonial period (1870-1942), the Outer Islands of Indonesia formed a dynamic area. The economic development of these islands outside Java is analysed in this book by focusing on the enormous increase in trade after 1900. The Outer Islands are described individually and as a group, paying special attention to regional differences. The core of the study is to examine the effects of trade—foreign and domestic—on economic development. Although the economic policy of the colonial government played a role in the gradual formation of a national economy, it did little to advance the relatively backward regions of the Outer Islands. As one of the largest and most tumultuous economies in Southeast Asia, Indonesia nowadays attracts a lot of international attention. This book will serve the study of the diverse and dynamic economic history of late colonial Indonesia, which profoundly influenced post-war events and the formation of a national state.

#191

The Leiden Legacy

Concepts of Law in Indonesia

2004

The Dutch colonial power in Indonesia in the nineteenth century needed to clarify its understanding of the legal values and conventions of the peoples whom it claimed to rule. Dutch colonial lawyers tended to rationalize this legal culture, lumping together all kinds of indigenous legal customs from different areas as manifestations of adatrecht, or, customary law. The status of this legal system vis-a-vis Dutch colonial law was a source of continual depute and disagreement. The champions of adatrecht known as the Leiden School, with C. van Vollenhoven in the forefront, scored a victory around 1927 when adatrecht gained official recognition, though on the other hand it became the subject of mounting criticism. After World War II, the independent state of Indonesia paid lip service to adatrecht principles, but in practice treated it as irrelevant, or even an embarrassment.

#195

2003

This book explores a phase in the history of both Indonesia and Singapore that is little known. It is a narrative analysis of how the dynamics of the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) overflowed into Singapore. In turn, Singapore was a base for the Indonesian nationalists, the British, the Dutch, and Chinese traders, with each group exploiting prevailing circumstances for their own interests. Indeed, the author argues that the success of Indonesia's struggle against the Dutch was due in no small measure to the opportunities available in Singapore to advance Indonesia's strategic aims. The Singapore connection during these years was a vital link."

#209

Framing Indonesian Realities

Essays in Symbolic Anthropology in Honour of Reimar Schefold

2003

Ritual language, wild and domestic animals, and objects of material culture like houses, palaces, and works of art, are often loaded with symbolic meaning. Reading the landscape', or giving meaning to the natural environment, is a cultural act as well, and one must discover what mountains, coastlines, and islands mean to different groups of people. In this book, written on the occasion of Professor Reimar Schefold's retirement from the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University, colleagues and former students from the Netherlands and abroad demonstrate the variety and wealth of the field of symbolic anthropology. The regional focus of the book is Indonesia. The studies presented range from small island communities in western, northern, and eastern Indonesia to urban settlements in Java and Sumatra. All the contributions are in one way or another related to Reimar Schefold's work over the past thirty-five years, work that includes extensive studies on material culture, rituals, and the use of symbols in the expression of ethnicity among the various cultural groups of Indonesia."

#210

Multiple Centres of Authority

Society and Environment in Siak and Eastern Sumatra, 1674-1827

2003

Offering access to an extensive and resource-rich hinterland, eastern Sumatra was an important trading region between the Melaka Straits and the Minangkabau highlands of Sumatra prior to colonial rule. Traditionally under the control of Johor, the various communities in eastern Sumatra were united under the leadership of an adventurer named Raja Kecik in the early eighteenth century and formed an independent community along the Siak River. Over the next century Raja Kecik and his descendents attempted to gain control over the trade that flowed through the Straits, while keeping the numerous communities within their territories united by means of marriage alliances, warfare, raiding, trade, and myth. By the end of the eighteenth century the ‘multiple centres of authority’ that constituted Siak represented the dominant Malay community in the Straits of Melaka, only to fall into decline due to the rise of British trading communities in Singapore and Penang. This book, based on VOC (Dutch East Indies Company) archives and traditional Malay texts, examines the rise of a 'Malay' state in the early modern era. It focuses on the ecological frontier of eastern Sumatra, with its multi-ethnic communities, and how they were able to transform themselves, in the words of an English visitor, into 'a summit of prosperity' by the end of the eighteenth century. Particular emphasis is placed on the methods used by Siak leaders to unite the disparate communities in the region, and how this was viewed in other Malay communities.

#211

2005

. Silkworm Books, clean copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981

#227

Shifting Images of Identity in the Pacific

2004

This book examines how identities emerge, persist and change in various Pacific societies. The shifting images of identity are explored in pre-colonial, colonial as well as post-colonial circumstances. All the essays in this volume address both continuity and discontinuity in the construction of identities in the rapidly changing Pacific region. A region increasingly characterized by state-formation processes and global influences. The introduction provides a theoretical analysis of the changing paradigm in the study of identity over recent decades. This is exemplified with a comparative overview of the emergence of a constructivist approach of culture, tradition and identity in Pacific studies. Nine ethnographic contributions subsequently address the central question from a variety of different angles. Some chapters focus on classic topics such as migration and myth, while others deal with indigenous peoples in modern nation-states, tourism, economic development, global consumerism or electronic communication. The societies in question range from relatively isolated groups to communities living dispersed around the globe. Each chapter provides valuable insights into the processes of identity in the Pacific over time. An epilogue provides a comparative reading of the different theoretical solutions that have been proposed to make sense of the shifting images of identity in the contemporary, increasingly transnational Pacific.

#228

The Lion and the Gadfly

Dutch Colonialism and the Spirit of E.F.E. Douwes Dekker

2007

This political biography reveals the turbulent life of Ernest Francois Eugene Douwes Dekker, son of a Dutch father and a German-Javanese mother, born on Java in 1879. Vignettes flow in novel-like fashion from the battle fields of South Africa and internment camp in Sri Lanka to a career in journalism in Java. Radical thoughts then enter Douwes Dekker's mind, such as demands for racial equality and national independence. These made him write presciently that this road might take him to the executioner's hand or to the victory of revolution. In exile from 1913 on, his bravado allowed him to enter a doctoral program at the University of Zurich but also to entanglement with Indian revolutionaries operating from Berlin. Returning to Java at the end of World War I, he once again propagated the virtues of nationalism, but soon was forced to relinquish his efforts and start a teaching career. Even here constant surveillance and eventual internment in Surinam were his lot. Within a decade, the Republic of Indonesia had been proclaimed and Douwes Dekker emerged to acclaim as a close friend and political adviser to President Soekarno."

#229

Kuasa Berkat dari Belantara dan Langit

Struktur Transformasi Agama Orang Toraja di Mamasa, Sulawesi Barat

2006

Para perempuan lari dari kampungnya malam itu, masuk hutan seraya berteriak dan menanggalkan pakaian. Dalam keadaan kerasukan roh-roh hutan belantara, mereka naik pohon beringin, barana’, dan menari di atas dahannya hingga dinihari. Ritual perempuan itu menjadi salah satu ritual sangat menarik yang diberi perhatian dalam buku ini. Orang Toraja hidup di kawasan pegunungan di Sulawesi Selatan dan Sulawesi Barat. Akar-akar agama tua mereka, aluk toyolo, berasal dari masa sebelum agama Hindu dan Buddha masuk di Indonesia sekitar 1500 tahun lalu. Aluk toyolo memiliki ciri-ciri yang berhubungan dengan perbedaan antara unsur-unsur perempuan dan laki-laki. Dalam buku ini, beberapa ritual tua diurai rinci, seperti ritual berburu kepala, ritual naik pohon barana’, dan ritual kesuburan. Begitu pula dengan ritual lain yang terkait kelahiran, pernikahan, dan kematian diberi perhatian, terutama dimana mereka memperlihatkan perubahan-perubahan terkait fokus yang terdapat dalam agama. Dulu dewa-dewa langit bersama dengan para dewa di bumi diharapkan memberkati pelaksana ritual-ritual, sekarang unsur dewa-dewa di bumi hampir tidak ada lagi. Transformasi ke arah langit bersama latar belakangnya diberi banyak perhatian dalam buku ini.

#231

Histories of the Borneo Environment

Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity

2005

In light of the tremendous changes that have come to the island of Borneo in recent decades, this volume takes a detailed historical look at the Borneo environment from native, colonial and national perspectives. It examines change and continuity in the economic, political and social dimensions of human-environment interactions. Reflecting the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of environmental history, the book brings together an international group of historians, anthropologists, geographers and social foresters, all looking through a historical lens at the environment in the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, and the Indonesian province of Kalimantan and Brunei. Drawing on extensive archival research and fieldwork, these ten original contributions encompass eleven centuries of history on Borneo, examining interrelated topics that include long-distance trade, conservation, land tenure, resource access, property rights, perceptions of the environment, migration, and development policy and practice. The chapters in this volume are extensively revised versions of selected papers presented at an international seminar on '"Environmental change in native and colonial histories of Lessons from the past, prospects for the future"' held in Leiden under the auspices of the International Institute for Asian Studies.

#234

A Life-Long Passion

P.J. Veth (1814-1895) and the Dutch East Indies

2006

'Anyone who is not astonished at Professor Veth's knowledge knows nothing about knowledge.' Thus spoke 'Multatuli', one of the most important anti-colonial writers ( Max Havelaar ) of modern Dutch history. P.J. Veth was the man who discovered 'Multatuli', and he himself was a remarkable pamphleteer. With his great knowledge of the 'Dutch-Indies', Veth played an influential role in shaping the Dutch 'identity'; without the Dutch-Indies, the 19th-century Netherlands would be unthinkable. Paul van der Velde describes the turbulent life of Veth, and his passion to get the 'Dutch-Indies' accepted as an adult partner. He was the scourge of the conservative Netherlands, and his role in the literary and political circles of his time was quite remarkable. He was one of the most eminent Dutch scholars with an international reputation. A Life-long Passion gives a vivid insight into the life of this exceptional 19th century man.

#235

The Voice of the Law in Transition

Indonesian Jurists and Their Languages, 1915-2000

2008

In the literature on Indonesian legal history, the role of language has been paid scant attention. Even the replacement of Dutch by Indonesian as the official language of the law, surely a major event for the work of Indonesian jurists, has not been closely examined. Yet, since the early 1970s, legal usage and terminology have been the topic of a steady stream of highly critical publications by linguists and, remarkably, by jurists as well. Their criticism is focused on the heterogeneity of law language and terminology, and the deviation of legal usage from the official standard language. Government measures (language courses, law dictionaries) have not allayed this criticism. This study exposes two fundamental defects in the government measures and in the criticism itself. Firstly, they are grounded in an instrumental approach to language, an approach that sees language as a mere tool of the jurist, and as secondary in importance to the conceptual world that is considered law s core business. Secondly, they greatly underestimate the impact of the declining knowledge of Dutch upon the development of Indonesian law language. Massier argues that the law must be viewed as inextricably bound up with the language in which it is formulated. Consequently, legal training and practice are examined in this study in terms of language behaviour and conventions, of learning, writing and speaking the languages of the law. "The voice of the law in transition" provides a language history of Indonesian law and its practitioners."

#237

Listening to an Earlier Java

Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music of Wayang in Central Java

2007

PLEASE NOTE that the accompanying CD-ROM is no longer available due to the incompatibility with current file formats.This study is the first large-scale treatment of gender issues in Indonesian music. Integrating the analysis of gender and music with that of aesthetics, this study of the musical synergy between the puppeteer and his female accompanist describes the ways in which shifting gender constructions have helped to shape and change Central Javanese music and theatre performance practice while throwing new light on the history of Javanese gender relations and culture, as well as on the aesthetics of Central Javanese shadow-puppet theatre.

#238

Renegotiating Boundaries

Local Politics in post-Soeharto Indonesia

2007

This volume studies the crisis Indonesia plunged into in 1998 after 32 years of enforced stability. Democratization, decentralization and emerging ethnic and religious identities are looked into.

#240

A World of Water

Rain, Rivers and Seas in Southeast Asian Histories

2007

Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from eight countries, contains thirteen essays, representing a broad range of approaches to the study of Southeast Asia with water as the central theme. As it was exposed to the sea, the region was more accessible to outside political, economic and cultural influences than many landlocked areas. Easy access through sea routes also stimulated trade from an early age. However, the same easy access made Southeast Asia vulnerable to political control by strong outsiders. The sea is, moreover, a source of food, but also of many hazards. At the same time, Southeast Asian societies and cultures are confronted with and permeated by 'water from heaven' in the form of rain, flash floods, irrigation water, water in rivers, brooks and swaps, water-driven power plants, and pumped or piped water, in addition to water as a carrier of sewage and pollution. Finally, the volume deals with the role of water in classification systems, beliefs, myths, illness and healing.

#241

Restoring the Balance

Performing Healing in West Papua

2008

Who made Mama Raja ill? This question, buzzing around the village, starts off this anthropological study on healing performances in the context of religious change. The fascinating case is presented of a seriously ill woman of high standing in northwest Ayfat, located in the interior of the Bird's Head in West Papua. By unravelling the various explanations of the cause of the illness, and the path Mama Raja followed in search of healing, the author documents how, why, and when Papuan people make their choices in their search for healing. The study offers an ethnographically rich journey through the variety of healing methods in current Ayfat indigenous (obtained during female and male initiation rites), biomedical (the missionary hospital), and Christian (created by ritual healers since the coming of the missionaries). Likewise, the causes ascribed to illness range from sorcery, witchcraft, violation of ancestral or biblical rules, to biomedical conditions, a multiplicity of ways of understanding illness and healing that emerged in the context of religious change. Making choices among the variety of healing performances, and the creation of new performances, are shown to be dynamic processes. At the core are the innovative contributions of local healers, particularly women, who chose to create new performances in the face of religious change. Restoring the Balance looks at indigenous and Christian religious practices, and how people in northwest Ayfat have found a way to integrate the two and bring both sides into balance. This book will be hightly useful to anthropologists and others interested in Melanesian and eastern Indonesian cultures, healing, spiritual healing, or religious change. It would make an attractive case study for university courses at any level.

#244

Beyond Empire And Nation

Decolonizing Societies In Africa And Asia, 1930s-1970s

2013

The decolonization of countries in Asia and Africa is one of the momentous events in the twentieth century. But did the shift to independence indeed affect the lives of the people in such a dramatic way as the political events suggest? The authors in this volume look beyond the political interpretations of decolonization and address the issue of social and economic reorientations which were necessitated or caused by the end of colonial rule. The book covers three major issues: public security; the changes in the urban environment, and the reorientation of the economies. Most articles search for comparisons transcending the colonial and national borders and adopt a time frame extending from the late colonial period to the early decades of independence in Asia and Africa (1930s-1970s). The volume is part of the research programme ‘Indonesia across Orders’ of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation. Contributors to the volume are: Greg Bankoff, Raymond Betts, Ann Booth, Cathérine Coquéry-Vidrovitch, Freek Colombijn, Frederick Cooper, Bill Freund, Karl Hack, Jim Masselos and Willem Wolters.

#245

Bridges to New Business

The Economic Decolonization of Indonesia

2008

This monograph offers the first comprehensive history of the decolonization of the Indonesian economy, a process with a different momentum and timing from the achievement of political independence. It traces the origins of economic decolonization to the late-colonial period, covers developments during the Japanese occupation and the Indonesian Revolution as well as continued operations by Dutch enterprises in Indonesia during the 1950s. The account culminates with the takeover and nationalization of Dutch private enterprises in the late 1950s.

#246

Under Construction

The Politics of Urban Space and Housing during the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1930 1960

2010

Freek Colombijn examines the social changes in Indonesian cities during the process of decolonization. That process had major repercussions for urban society. These social changes are studied from the angle of urban space in general, and the provision of housing in particular. This provides fresh insight into how people experienced decolonization. The author challenges the idea that a shift from ethnic to class differences was the overriding social change during decolonization. He argues instead that class differences had already formed the predominant dividing lines in colonial urban society. Colombijn also focuses on the shifting balance of power between the main agents in the urban arena. Through the use of hitherto unused historical sources, the book presents a wealth of new data about the Indonesian city and the decolonization process. Published in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute of War Documentation (NIOD). Originally published with imprint KITLV (ISBN 9789067182911).

#247

The Ramayaṇa in the Literature and Visual Arts of Indonesia

2011

The Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD), holds a unique position in the literary heritage of Indonesia. The poem has retained a remarkable vitality through the centuries in the Archipelago, inspiring many forms of artistic expression not only in the domain of literature but also in the visual and performing arts, from the reliefs of the majestic Central Javanese temples to modern puppet-show performances. Displaying a virtuoso array of metrical patterns, the Kakawin Ramayana is among the very few Old Javanese texts for which a specific Sanskrit prototype has been identified, namely the difficult poem Bhattikavya (circa 7th century AD), itself a version of the great Ramayana epic ascribed to Valmiki (circa 6th–1st century BC). The Old Javanese poem is an original and skillful work of re-elaboration that documents a fascinating interaction between cultural elements of the Sanskritic tradition with those indigenous to the Javanese setting. The studies included in this volume, written by experts in a wide range of disciplines, focus on disparate aspects of the Kakawin Ramayana and the constellation of cultural phenomena revolving around it, providing the reader with a key to the understanding of the rich Old Javanese textual heritage and the transcultural intellectual dynamics that contributed to shaping the cultural heritage of Indonesia up to the present. With contributions from Andrea Acri, Helen Creese, Arlo Griffiths, Thomas Hunter, Roy Jordaan, Lydia Kieven, Cecelia Levin, Wesley Michel, Stuart Robson and Adrian Vickers, this book is the result of a workshop held at the KITLV branch in Jakarta on May 26th–28th 2009 and supported by the Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration, the École française d’Extrême-Orient, and the Stichting J. Gonda Fonds.

#248

Srikandhi Dances Lènggèr

A Performance of Music and Shadow Theater in Central Java

2009

The book is structured around the translation of a Javanese shadow theater performance entitled Srikandhi Mbarang Lènggèr ("Srikandhi Becomes an Itinerant Dancer" or "Srikandhi Dances Lènggèr"), performed only in the Banyumas region (in west Central Java) by the locally renowned puppeteer, Ki Sugino Siswocarito. This study is a translation of the story both in a strict textual-linguistic sense and in a more general interpretive sense, providing an understanding of what the performance means to its Banyumas audience. More important, it shows how the puppeteer transforms the culturally universal traditions of Javanese ritual, shadow-puppet theater, and music to particularize the entire performance event for a local audience. The book is three a major conceptual study that develops, advocates, and applies an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the performance process, an important secondary source on rural Javanese culture and arts (most works on Java focus on the court centers), and a useful primary source on wayang theater—since it includes the Javanese text and English translation of a complete story with music transcriptions provided in an appendix. The Javanese texts and their English translations are laid out side by side to facilitate reading while listening to the audio recording on the enclosed dvd. The book contains twenty-five beautifully rendered illustrations of Banyumas-style wayang puppets (major characters in the story) by two Javanese artists.

#250

Verguisd en vergeten

Tan Malaka, de linkse beweging en de Indonesische Revolutie, 1945-1949 [3 volumes]

2007

De legendarische en mysterieuze Tan Malaka verscheen, na twintig jaar verbanning en ondergrondse actie, kort na de Proclamatie van de Indonesische onafhankelijkheid op 17 augustus 1945 weer in de openbaarheid. Hij bood een radicaal alternatief voor de gematigde koers van Soekarno en Hatta, het leidersduo van de Republik Indonesia, maar hij dolf het onderspit en werd in maart 1946 gevangengezet. Pas in september 1948 kwam hij vrij. Hij richtte toen de Partai Murba op, die de plaats wilde innemen van de in de Madioen-opstand neergeslagen communistische partij. Na de Nederlandse militaire actie van december 1948 volgde hij het guerrillaverzet; in februari 1949 werd hij doodgeschoten bij een interne afrekening. Tan Malaka's levensloop is vaak in mysterie gehuld. In dit boek wordt dit grotendeels ontrafeld, zoals ook waar en door wie hij om het leven werd gebracht. Zijn prominente rol tijdens de Indonesische Revolutie—actief en als symbool—maken het noodzakelijk uitgebreid de politieke verwikkelingen in de Republik en in de verdeelde linkse beweging te beschrijven. In vele opzichten worden over doorslaggevende gebeurtenissen in de Revolutie nieuwe gegevens en visies verschaft. In een uitgebreide epiloog worden de lotgevallen gevolgd van Tan Malaka's geesteskind Partai Murba en van Tan Malaka's naleven, dat zich pas sinds kort aan de kenschets 'verguisd en vergeten' begint te onttrekken.

#252

Jaranan

The Horse Dance and Trance in East Java

2008

The dramatic genre of the horse dance ( jaranan ) is part of an age-old Javanese tradition displaying wide local and regional variations. A striking feature of the performances of the majority of horse dance groups is the appearance of trance dancers. These are used as a means of establishing contact with the spirits of the ancestors, who continue to play an important part in the lives of their descendants as moral beacons in the solution of problems and the fulfillment of wishes. As a consequence of the modernization of society in almost every aspect of life, vigorously propagated as it was by the Suharto regime in the period 1966-1998, the trance in horse dancing has been strongly discouraged as an anachronism. This has prompted a search for new ways of preserving this dramatic genre for future generations. The way the administration of Kediri and a number of local horse dance companies set about solving this problem constitutes a dominant theme of this book. To bring the phenomenon of the horse dance in Java into sharper focus, a brief account is given of its history, as well as a description of the great variety of horse dance groups of and a range of aspects of this genre.

#254

The Netherlands Indies and the Great War, 1914-1918

2007

World War I had just broken out, but colonial authorities in the Netherlands Indies heaved a sigh of relief: The colonial export sector had not collapsed and war offered new economic prospects; representatives from the Islamic nationalist movement had prayed for God to bless the Netherlands but had not seized upon the occasion to incite unrest. Furthermore, the colonial government, impressed by such shows of loyalty, embarked upon a campaign to create a 'native militia', an army of Javanese to assist in repulsing a possible Japanese invasion. Yet there were other problems: pilgrims stranded in Mecca, the pro-German disposition of most Indonesian Muslims because of the involvement of Turkey in the war, and above all the status of the Netherlands Indies as a smuggling station used by Indian revolutionaries and German agents to subvert British rule in Asia. By 1917 the optimism of the first war years had disappeared. Trade restrictions, the war at sea, and a worldwide lack of tonnage caused export opportunities to dwindle. Communist propaganda had radicalized the nationalist movement. In 1918 it seemed that the colony might cave in. Exports had ceased. Famine was a very real danger. There was increasing unrest within the colonial population and the army and navy. Colonial authorities turned to the nationalist movement for help, offering them drastic political concessions, forgotten as soon as the war ended. The political and economic independence gained by the Netherlands Indies, a result of problems in communications with the mother country, was also lost by the end of the war. Kees van Dijk examines how in 1917 the atmosphere of optimism in the Netherlands Indies changed to one of unrest and dissatisfaction, and how after World War I the situation stabilized to resemble pre-war political and economic circumstances.

#255

Lost in Mall

An Ethnography of Middle-Class Jakarta in the 1990s

A History of the Ajattappareng Kingdoms of South Sulawesi, 1200 to 1600 CE

2009

The author combines a range of sources and methods, including oral, textual, archaeological, linguistic, and geographical information and analysis as he explores the rise and development of five South Sulawesi kingdoms, known collectively as Ajattappareng (the Lands West of the Lakes).

#266

De garoeda en de ooievaar

Indonesië van kolonie tot nationale staat

2010

Deze nieuwe beschrijving van het wordingsproces van de Indonesische staat gaat ervan uit, dat die staat zijn ontstaan niet alleen dankt aan de nationale vrijheidsbeweging maar ook aan de Nederlandse heerschappij waar die beweging zich tegen keerde. Daarom gaat het boek uitdrukkelijk in op voornaamste ontwikkelingen van het door Nederland in de kolonie Nederlands-Indië gevoerde beleid. Hier sluiten hoofdstukken op aan over de Indonesische nationale beweging en over de Japanse bezetting van de kolonie in 1942-1945. Die bezetting maakte de weg vrij voor de proclamatie van de Indonesische onafhankelijkheid en de stichting van de Republiek Indonesië in augustus 1945. Het daarop ontbrande conflict tussen deze Republiek en Nederland kwam in 1949 tot een onvolledige oplossing, waarna het geschil over West-Irian nog tot een dertien jaar durende nasleep leidde. Meer dan de helft van het boek is gewijd aan een kroniek van dit conflict en zijn nasleep. Daarbij gaat ook ruime aandacht uit naar denkbeelden en sentimenten die het beleid hebben beïnvloed. Het boek behandelt tal van zaken die in de bestaande geschiedschrijving niet aan de orde komen. De auteur ontleende zijn gegevens aan Nederlandse en buitenlandse vakliteratuur, aan dagbladen en interne documenten uit de tijd van het conflict en aan zijn eigen herinneringen. In de boektitel staat de ooievaar symbool voor Nederland naast de garoeda voor Indonesië.

#267

Indonesian Economic Decolonization in Indonesia in Regional and International Perspective

2009

This collection of essays provides insights into the complex process of economic decolonization in Indonesia from a variety of perspectives.

#268

Memetakan Masa Lalu Aceh

2011

Aceh melekat dalam ingatan kita saat ini karena dua bencana dahsyat â€“ gempa dan tsunami terburuk sepanjang catatan sejarah modern pada Desember 2004, dan gerakan separatis yang terus menggerogoti Indonesia sepanjang sejarah sejak merdeka. Meskipun muncul dari proses pemulihan dua trauma tersebut, buku ini mengacu pada sisi Aceh yang lebih positif namun terabaikan dari perhatian kita, yakni sebagai kerajaan maritim Asia Tenggara yang sangat berhasil dan dengan cerdik mempertahankan kemerdekaannya hingga tahun 1874. seperti Burma, Siam, dan Vietnam, semua terlindungi oleh posisi geografis masing-masing, Aceh memiliki riwayatnya sendiri sebagai sekelompok masyarakat berbudaya unik yang berjuang untuk mempertahankan diri dari dominasi kolonial Eropa. Sayangnya sumber-sumber sejarah ini tercecer di mana-mana karena catatan-catatan milik Aceh sendiri tidak ditemukan, hancur termakan cuaca tropis yang ganas, perang sipil dan tentunya akibat penjajahan oleh kekuatan asing. Untuk memulihkan catatan sejarah yang luar biasa ini, berbagai sumber dan keahlian khusus harus disinergikan dalam satu usaha yang menguras tenaga. Peran sentral Aceh dalam literatur Melayu yang terlepas dari pengaruh Arab, Persia, India, dan budaya Nusantara harus diteliti dari beberapa teks yang masih bertahan, tetapi tersebar di beberapa perpustakaan di berbagai belahan dunia (Teuku Iskandar, Amirul Hadi). Catatan sejarah Nusantara yang dikesampingkan selama konflik berkepanjangan harus dipelajari lagi (Daniel Perret), dan hubungan erat antara Kesultanan Aceh dengan Turki Usmani (Ismail Goskoy dan Ismail Kadi, Andrew Peacock dan Annabel Gallop), Portugis (Jorge alves), Inggris (Annabel Gallop), dan Belanda (Sher Banu dan Jean Taylor) harus dieksplorasi, terutama pada arsip-arsip Eropa oleh para-para ahli di bidang masing-masing. Hasil dari usaha itu semua terangkum dalam buku ini menjadi sumber-sumber yang paling lengkap selama ini mengenal sejarah Aceh.

2012

This study of traditional literature in Pakpak-Dairi, an endangered North Sumatran language, is based on written and oral versions of stories. Discussing the views of well-known scholars of Sumatran languages, the book includes the texts of seven stories which were collected in North Sumatra by the well-known linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk (1824-1894) and are kept in Leiden University Library. The book also contains a story performed in the village of Sukarame by Sonang Sitakar, who may well have been one of the last Pakpak-Dairi storytellers. Presenting unique information on an endangered literary genre from North Sumatra.

#280

Following the Cap-Figure in Majapahit Temple Reliefs

A New Look at the Religious Function of East Javanese Temples, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centurie

2012

This publication provides a new understanding of the religious function of the East Javanese temples. The study of the cap-figures and their symbolism yields an outstanding contribution to the uniqueness of Majapahit culture.

#281

Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia: The Case of the Madurese

2014

Forgotten People deals with people living at the fringes of the Indonesian society. It describes and analyses their livelihoods and styles of making a living from an insider perspective. While Indonesia has experienced steady economic growth for more than a decade, the livelihoods and lifestyles of poor people and migrants confronted with poverty and insecurity have received less attention. This book describes and analyses diversity in livelihood strategies, risk-taking and local forms of social security (social welfare) of people living below or close to the Indonesian poverty line. It puts two categories of forgotten people at the centre. Peasants, living in remote areas in rural Java, and Madurese migrants craving for a better life in urban and rural East Kalimantan.

#299

Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Indonesia

2015

In Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Indonesia Lee Wilson offers an innovative study of nationalism and the Indonesian state through the ethnography of the martial art of Pencak Silat. Wilson shows how technologies of physical and spiritual warfare such as Pencak Silat have long played a prominent role in Indonesian political society. He demonstrates the importance of these technologies to the display and performance of power, and highlights the limitations of theories of secular modernity for understanding political forms in contemporary Indonesia. He offers a compelling argument for a revisionist account of models of power in Indonesia in which authority is understood as precarious and multiple, and the body is politically charged because of its potential for transformation.

#304

Storytelling in Bali

2016

In Storytelling in Bali, Hildred Geertz analyzes over 200 texts of popular stories dictated in 1936 by the painters of Batuan, Bali. The tales reveal strong ambivalences in the tellers regarding the magical powers of kings, priests and healers.

#307

Indonesia's Overseas Labour Migration Programme, 1969-2010

2016

In Indonesia's Overseas Labour Migration Programme, 1969-2010, Wayne Palmer offers for the first time a detailed, critical analysis of the way in which Indonesia's Overseas Labour Migration Programme is managed and how that fits with other developments within the Indonesian government. Commonly portrayed as a corrupt bunch of officials out to line their own pockets at the expense of migrant workers' welfare, here we are shown that they also make exceptions to rules when the law and political climate are not on their side. Wayne Palmer used interviews with over 120 officials in six Indonesian provinces and three diplomatic missions in the Asia-Pacific region to understand motivations for corrupt and other illegal behaviour.

#309

Christianity, Colonization, and Gender Relations in North Sumatra

A Patrilineal Society in Flux

2017

Christianity, Colonization, and Gender Relations in North Sumatra offers an account of changes in Toba Batak society (Sumatra, Indonesia) under the influence of Christianity and Dutch colonial rule (1861-1942). Sita van Bemmelen's research focuses on customs and customary law related to the life cycle and gender relations. The book's first part is a historical ethnography, describing society as it existed at the onset of colonial rule. The second part zooms in on the negotiations between the Toba Batak elite, the missionaries of the German Rhenish Mission and colonial administrators about the marriage customs. Each contestant had an evolving view on desirable modernity. Christianity and colonial rule changed the way the Toba Batak reproduced their patrilineal kinship system. This affected gender relations permanently.

Authors

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Edward Aspinall is professor of politics at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University.

Gunawan Wiradi adalah anak bangsa yang konsisten dalam perjuangan reforma agraria. Beliau lahir pada 28 Agustus 1932 di Solo, Jawa Tengah. Putra bungsu dari pasangan R.Pujo Sastrosupodo dan R.A Sumirah ini lulus dari sekolah Arjuna (sekarang sekolah dasar/SD) pada 1946. Pada 1953 Pak GWR sapaan akrab beliau melanjutkan kuliah di IPB. Sambil bekerja beliau akhirnya menamatkan kuliahnya dan menjadi dosen di IPB tahun 1963. Saat ini, beliau terus aktif dalam dunia penelitian dan penulisan, sebagai dewan pakar di KPA dan Sajogyo Institut.

Cornelis Ch. Goslinga

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Cornelis Christiaan Goslinga. Died in 2000.

Tod Jones

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Antoinette M. Barrett Jones

Ia adalah sejarawan Indonesia, pelopor dalam penulisan sejarah dengan cara pandang Indonesia. Semasa hidupnya, ia menjadi dosen di Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) dan dinobatkan sebagai Guru Besar UGM, selain mengajar di UGM ia juga mengajar di IKIP Bandung

Gerry van Klinken is an honorary research fellow at KITLV, where he worked as a senior researcher until 2018, and at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Gerry became professor by special appointment of Southeast Asian Social and Economic History at the University of Amsterdam in 2013, and emeritus upon his retirement in 2018. Gerry’s current research is moving towards the comparative history and politics of climate change adaptation in Asia (Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines and India). He coordinated international research projects on the provincial middle class in Indonesia (In Search of Middle Indonesia, 2006-2011), on citizenship and democratisation in Indonesia (From Clients to Citizens? 2012-2016), and on digital humanities (Elite Network Shifts, 2012-2016). After gaining a MSc in geophysics (Macquarie University, Sydney, 1978), Van Klinken taught physics in universities in Malaysia and Indonesia (1979-91). Thereafter he moved into Asian Studies and earned a PhD in Indonesian history from Griffith University in Brisbane in 1996. After that he taught and researched in this field at universities in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Yogyakarta (Indonesia), and now Leiden and Amsterdam. In 1998 he became a frequent media commentator on Indonesian current affairs in Australia. He was editor of the Australian quarterly magazine Inside Indonesia between 1996 and 2002 and remains on the editorial board. From late 1999 to 2002 he was resident director in Yogyakarta for the Australian Consortium of In-Country Indonesian Studies (Acicis). In 2002-2004 he also spent nine months as research advisor to the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR).

Robinia de Vries-Wiersma

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W.F. Stutterheim

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Willem Frederik Stutterheim

Jan Honore Maria Cornelis Boelaars

J.C. Anceaux

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Johannes Cornelis Anceaux

Elisabeth Margaretha (Lizzy) van Leeuwen is een Nederlands bestuurskundige, cultureel antropoloog en publicist. Ze schrijft onder andere voor De Groene Amsterdammer. Van Leeuwen, zelf Indisch, is deskundig op het gebied van de positie van Indische Nederlanders in het postkoloniale tijdperk. Tot 2008 was ze werkzaam bij het Meertens Instituut waar ze met de historicus Gert Oostindie het project "Bringing history home" als postdoc historisch en etnologisch onderzoeker werkte. Ze deed onderzoek naar de wisselwerking tussen de naoorlogse identiteitspolitiek onder postkoloniale migranten in Nederland en de Nederlandse samenleving. Bij de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen van 2021 stond ze op de 8ste plek van de kieslijst van Splinter.

Dr. Willem Gerrit Jan "Wim" Remmelink is a historian who was the executive director of the Japan-Netherlands Institute in Tokyo for more than twenty-five years. He is a specialist in Japanese and Indonesian history.

Harry A. Poeze is a senior researcher at KITLV working on the Project ‘Dutch Military Operations in Indonesia 1945-1950’ in a general supervisory and advisory capacity, contributing his expertise on developments in Indonesian politics and the Indonesian armed forces. Harry studied Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, where he graduated in 1972. In 1976 he obtained his PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis on the biography of the Indonesian political leader Tan Malaka. At that time Harry was an alderman in the local government of Castricum. Later he became head of the KITLV Publications Department (1981), which has since developed into the KITLV Press. Since 2010 he was senior publisher with the Press, and now, in retirement, a senior researcher at KITLV. His research interest is in the developments in the Indonesian political world since 1900, during Dutch colonial rule, the Japanese occupation, and the Indonesian Revolution in particular. He published a three-volume history of the Indonesian Left during the Indonesian Revolution, concentrating on the role of Tan Malaka, in 2007. Currently he is working on a publication about Indonesian political songs (1925-1965), the (revised) biography of Tan Malaka till 1945, and a monograph on Boven-Digoel, the Dutch colonial internment camp for political prisoners.

Kees van Dijk

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Cornelis (Kees) van Dijk (1946) is emeritus professor of the history of modern Islam in Indonesia at Leiden University and head of the former Documentation Modern Indonesia (DMI) department of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV).

Hermanus Johannes de Graaf

Aone van Engelenhoven

Victoria M. Clara van Groenendael

Andrea Katalin Molnar

Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud

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David Henley

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Clara Brakel-Papenhuijzen

Jacqueline Vel is researcher at the Van Vollenhoven Institute of law, governance and development at Leiden University. Part of the research for this book was for the Modern Indonesia Project of KITLV in Leiden and sponsored by a research fellowship of the IIAS. She is currently involved in research on land law, access to justice, and socio-legal aspects of biofuel production in Indonesia.

Dr Keith Foulcher PhD retired in February 2006 as lecturer and coordinator of the Indonesian Studies program. Before his appointment to the University of Sydney in 1996, he taught at Monash University in Melbourne and Flinders University in Adelaide. He has an international reputation for his work on modern Indonesian literature, and has been an invited speaker at various universities and associations in Indonesia, Singapore, The Netherlands and the United States. His writings: * "On Being a Modern Writer: Translation and the Angkatan 45" in Henri Chambert-Loir (ed.), Translation in Indonesia (EFEO, Paris) * "Moving Pictures: Western Marxism and Vernacular Literature in Colonial Indonesia" in Doris Jedamski (ed), Chewing Over the West (Rodopi, London) * Social Commitment in Literature and the Arts: The Indonesian "Institute of People's Culture," 1950-1965 (Monash University: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 1986) 234 pp. * "The Construction of an Indonesian National Culture: Patterns of Hegemony and Resistance" in Arief Budiman (ed.) State and Civil Society in Indonesia (Monash University: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 1990) pp. 301-320. * Pujangga Baru: Kesusastraaan dan Nasionalisme di Indonesia 1933-1942 (Jakarta: Girimukti Pasaka, 1991) 137 pp. * "Literature, Cultural Politics and the Indonesian Revolution" in D.M.Roskies (ed.) Text/Politics in Island Southeat Asia (Ohio University: Center for International Studies, 1992) pp. 221-256. * “Sumpah Pemuda: The Making and Meaning of a Symbol of Indonesian Nationhood”, Asian Studies Review (Australia) 24/3, September 2000, pp.377-410.) * (with Tony Day, joint editor), Clearing a space: Postcolonial readings of modern Indonesian Literature (Leiden: KITLV Press, 2002) * “Community and the metropolis: A Lenong Performance in Early New Order Jakarta”, Review of Indonesian & Malaysian Affairs (RIMA) 37/2, 2003, pp. 27-66 * “Biography, History and the Indonesian Novel: Reading Salah Asuhan”, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en volkenkunde (Leiden), 161/2-3, 2005, pp. 247-268.

Susan Rodgers (1949) is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Asian Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Her 1978 PhD from the University of Chicago concerned images of the modern in Angkola Batak ritual oratory. Since 1985 her research has dwelt on the linked politics and aesthetics of southern Batak print literatures and literacies, from the late Dutch colonial period through New Order (1965-1998) times. Among her publications are Power and gold; Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (1985) Indonesian religions in transition, edited with Rita S. Kipp (1987), Telling lives, telling history; Autobiography and historical imagination in modern Indonesia (1995), and Sitti Djaoerah; A novel of colonial Indonesia (1997), a translation of another of Soetan Hasoendoeta's books.

Bernd Nothofer was a German linguist. His primary research interests include Austronesian historical linguistics, Malayic dialectology, and the languages of Indonesia.

Dr. Paul Willem Johan van der Veur was Professor Emeritus of political science at Ohio University. Born to Dutch parents in the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia), he attended school in Surabaya, Java, where his father practiced as a physician (he also briefly attended a lycée in Hilversum, in the Netherlands). He fought against the Japanese in World War II, was captured and spent part of his imprisonment in the infamous Changi prison in Singapore. After the war, having obtained a scholarship to attend Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania), he moved to the U.S.A. He later earned a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota, and received his Ph.D. in political science from Cornell University in 1955. He taught at Yale University, the University of Hawaii, the Australian National University and Northern Illinois University. In 1967, Professor van der Veur became the founding director of the Southeast Asia Program at Ohio University. He retired from the classroom in 1991, but remained active as a scholar to the end of his life.

Gerardus Willebrordus Joannes Drewes

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An Australian scholar, Stuart Robson has been involved with Asian Studies for over 40 years. A resident of Victoria, Australia, he has lived and taught overseas, and has a number of publications to his name. He currently teaches Indonesian at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a member of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology. His other interests include Theravada Buddhism, archaeology, and classical Javanese music.

Tan Malaka (1894 - February 21, 1949) was an Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader. A staunch critic of both the colonial Dutch East Indies government and the republican Sukarno administration that governed the country after the Indonesian National Revolution, he was also frequently in conflict with the leadership of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), Indonesia's primary radical political party in the 1920s and again in the 1940s. A political outsider for most of his life, Tan Malaka spent a large part of his life in exile from Indonesia, and was constantly threatened with arrest by the Dutch authorities and their allies. Despite this apparent marginalization, however, he played a key intellectual role in linking the international communist movement to Southeast Asia's anti-colonial movements. He was declared a "hero of the national revolution" by act of Indonesia's parliament in 1963.

P.E. de Josselin de Jong