The Indonesia Reader

History, Culture, Politics

Auteur: Hellwig, Tineke; Tagliacozzo, Eric; Kirk, Robin; Starn, Orin
Éditeur: Duke University Press
Collection: The World Readers
ISBN: 9780822344032
eISBN Pdf: 9780822392279
Lieu de publication: Durham , United States
Année de publication électronique: 2009
Mois : Mars
Pages: 488
DDC: 959.8
Langue: Anglais

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Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a larger Muslim population than any other. The Indonesia Reader is a unique introduction to this extraordinary country. Assembled for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the Reader includes more than 150 selections: journalists’ articles, explorers’ chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, speeches, and more. Many pieces are by Indonesians; some are translated into English for the first time. All have introductions by the volume’s editors. Well-known figures such as Indonesia’s acclaimed novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz are featured alongside other artists and scholars, as well as politicians, revolutionaries, colonists, scientists, and activists.

Organized chronologically, the volume addresses early Indonesian civilizations; contact with traders from India, China, and the Arab Middle East; and the European colonization of Indonesia, which culminated in centuries of Dutch rule. Selections offer insight into Japan’s occupation (1942–45), the establishment of an independent Indonesia, and the post-independence era, from Sukarno’s presidency (1945–67), through Suharto’s dictatorial regime (1967–98), to the present Reformasi period. Themes of resistance and activism recur: in a book excerpt decrying the exploitation of Java’s natural wealth by the Dutch; in the writing of Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879–1904), a Javanese princess considered the icon of Indonesian feminism; in a 1978 statement from East Timor objecting to annexation by Indonesia; and in an essay by the founder of Indonesia’s first gay activist group. From fifth-century Sanskrit inscriptions in stone to selections related to the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2004 tsunami, The Indonesia Reader conveys the long history and the cultural, ethnic, and ecological diversity of this far-flung archipelago nation.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Early Histories
- The Kutei Inscriptions in Borneo
- The Shadow of India
- The Genesis of Indonesian Archaeology
- Javanese Inscriptions
- What Was Srivijaya?
- Srivijaya Revisited
- Arab Navigation in the Archipelago
- Viewing the Borobudur
- In Praise of Prambanan
- The Nagarakrtagama
- Images Arjuna and Kresna
II. Early Modern Histories
- Ibn Battuta at Pasai
- Chinese Muslims in Java
- Portuguese Sources on Products and the Monsoons
- The First Dutch Voyage to the Indies, 1596
- The Web of Batik
- An Englishman in Banten
- A “Harem” in Aceh
- Contract with Banjarmasin
- General Missives of the VOC
- Negara: The Theatre State in Bali
III. Cultures in Collision
- The Tuhfat al-Nafis
- The Hikayat Abdullah
- The La Galigo as Bugis History
- The Babad Dipanegara in Java
- Sasak Literature of Lombok
- Max Havelaar
- A Naturalist Climbs a Mountain
- Surveilling the Arabs
- A Pioneer of Women’s Rights
- Chinese Coolies to Sumatra
IV. Through Travelers’ Eyes
- Visiting Banjarmasin
- The Lure of Spice in the Moluccas
- An Englishman in New Guinea
- Letters from Chinese Merchants to Batavia
- Pirates on the Java Sea
- Colonial Geography in Kei and Flores
- Bugis Ships of Sulawesi
- Traversing the Interior of Palembang
- The Zoology of the Indies
- The Indonesian Hajj in Colonial Times
V. High Colonial Indies
- Chinese Traders in the Villages
- Is Opium a Genuine Evil?
- River Travel in the Padang Uplands
- Ethnographic Notes on Sumba
- Advice on Islam
- Marriage in Minahasa
- Shooting a Tiger
- The Endless War in Aceh
- Beriberi: Disease among the Troops
- Protestant Missions in the Indies
- The Oceanography of the Archipelago
VI. The Last Decades of the Indies
- Java’s Railways
- The Eruption of Krakatoa
- Colonizing Central Sulawesi
- The Welfare on Java and Madura
- The Balinese Puputan
- The Sarekat Islam Congress, 1916
- The Youth Oath
- The Adventures of a New Language
- Community of Exiles in Boven Digul
- Out of Bounds
- Changes in Indonesian Society
- Me and Toba
VII. From Nationalism to Independence
- Government News
- Fifty Years of Silence
- Drawings from a Japanese Camp
- Exploring Panca Sila
- Memories of a Freedom Fighter
- Revolutionary Poetry
- Straightening Out Celebes
- The 1948 Madiun Incident
- The South Moluccan Case
VIII. The Old Order, the New Order—Political Climate
- The 1955 Elections
- Joint Proclamation Text
- I Am a Papua
- A Soldier Stateman
- The Mass Killings of 1965–66
- Suharto, My Thoughts, Words, Deeds
- Student Demonstrations
- Cartoons
- Our Struggle against Indonesian Aggression
IX. Social Issues and Cultural Debates
- Cultural Workers Must Lead the Way
- The 1963 Cultural Manifesto
- The Chinese Minority in Indonesia
- The Young Divorcee
- Tracing the Twilight of Jakarta
- The Mute’s Soliloquy
- Marsinah Accuses
- Why Was TEMPO Banned?
- Saman
X. Into the Twenty-First Century
- Jakarta, February 14, 2039
- Jakarta 2039, Forty Years after May 13–14, 1998
- If PAN Wins the Election
- Gays and Lesbians in Indonesia
- The Violence in Ambon
- The Bali Bombing
- Megawati Sukarnoputri
- Saving the Komodo Dragons
- Post-Tsunami Aceh
- The Danish Cartoon Controversy
- The Politics of Bare Flesh
Suggestions for Further Reading
Acknowledgment of Copyrights
Index