The Indonesian Revolution, 1945-1949

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The Indonesian Revolution: archives and emotions, Kembara Bahari: esei kehormatan 80 tahun Adrian B. Lapian (2009)

Discusses the possibility that archival materials can be used to create a sense of emoptional...

 

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Military strategy in the Indonesian Revolution: Nasution's 'Total People's war' in theory and practice, War & Society (2001)

Analyses the guerrilla strategy of General A.H. Nasution, architect of Indonesia's guerrilla resistance to the...

 

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De HAMOTs van Luitenant Koert Bavinck: het bendewezen van Jakarta in dienst van het Nederlands gezag (1947-1949), Mededelingen van de Sectie Militaire Geschiedenis van de Landmachtsstaf (1989)

Article (in Dutch) describes the recruitment of an Indonesian nationalist irregular armed unit by a...

 

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History, culture, and problems of post-revolutionary identity in contemporary Vietnam, Contemporary Vietnam: perspectives from Australia (1988)

The chapter explores similarities between Vietnam and Indonesia as post-revolutionary societies.

 

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A revolution delayed: the Indonesian Republic and the Netherlands Indies, August-November 1945, Australian Journal of Politics and History (1986)

Article discusses relations between the Indonesian Republic, the Netherlands and Great Britain in the months...

 

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The adventures of Captain Mulyono: Indonesian intelligence operations in Kalimantan, 1946-1948, Kabar Seberang (1986)

Translation (with introduction and annotations) of the interrogation report of an Indonesian intelligence officer operating...

 

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Political Dimensions of the Currency Question 1945-1947, Indonesia (1982)

The article discusses the difficulties involved in introducing a national currency for Indonesia following the...

 

Jakarta in the Indonesian Revolution, 1945-1949

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Administrative competition in the Indonesian revolution: the dual government of Jakarta, 1945-1947, The Indonesian Revolution (1986)

Discusses the complex interaction between the Republican municipal government of Jakarta and the Dutch occupation...

 

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The Nationalist World of Occupied Jakarta, 1946-1949, From Batavia to Jakarta (1985)

Describes the atmosphere in Jakarta during the Dutch occupation, 1946-1949.

 

Crime and violence in Indonesian History

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Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: ghosts at the table of democracy (with Kenneth Christie) (2002)

Case studies of the working out of memories of massacre and historical injustice in Indonesia,...

 

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How many deaths? Problems in the statistics of massacre in Indonesia (1965-1966) and East Timor (1975-1980), Violence in Indonesia (2001)

The chapter critically examines the scanty evidence for the number of people to die in...

 

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From Petrus to Ninja: death squads in Indonesia, Death squads in global perspective: murder with deniability (2000)

Discusses the so-called petrus killings by death squads in Indonesia in 1983-83 and makes comparisons...

 

The Nature of the Profession

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The Indonesian Revolution: archives and emotions, Kembara Bahari: esei kehormatan 80 tahun Adrian B. Lapian (2009)

Discusses the possibility that archival materials can be used to create a sense of emoptional...

 

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'A little knowledge is a useful thing': paradoxes in the Asian Studies experience in Australia, What about Asia? Revisiting Asian Studies (2006)

Asia has increasingly become a routine part of the educational and research curriculum in Australia,...

 

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Circles of esteem, standard works, and Euphoric couplets: Dynamics of academic life in Indonesian studies, Critical Asian Studies (2005)

Indonesian Studies as a field is strongly influenced by its own social character as a...

 

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Ethical regulation and humanities research in Australia: problems and consequences, Monash Bioethics review (2004)

Examines problems created for humanities and social science research by the unthinking application of ethical...

 

Colonial history

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Birds of paradise and environmental politics in colonial Indonesia, 1890-1931, Paper landscapes: explorations in the environmental history of Indonesia (1997)

Pressure to protect the bird of paradise, native to New Guinea and eastern Indonesia, began...

 

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Development policy in the early 20th century [Indonesia], Development and social welfare: Indonesia ’s experiences under the New Order (1993)

Chapter discussed the Dutch Ethical Policy in early 20th century Indonesia. The programme was the...

 

Indonesian Politics

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Independence for Java? New National Projects for an Old Empire, Indonesia Today: Challenges of History (2001)

In the context of speculation that outlying regions might break away from Indonesia, the chapter...

 

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From Petrus to Ninja: death squads in Indonesia, Death squads in global perspective: murder with deniability (2000)

Discusses the so-called petrus killings by death squads in Indonesia in 1983-83 and makes comparisons...

 

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More smoke than fire: the 1997 'Haze' crisis and other environmental issues in Indonesia', Ecolonical Change in Southeast Asia (1998)

Reports on the 1987 haze crisis, analyses the four explanations put forward for the crisis...

 

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Indonesian Political Developments, 1989-1990, Indonesia Assessment 1990 (1990)

Reviews the years 1989-90 in Indonesian politics, focussing on the politics of secession and the...

 

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Leadership in Asia: Indonesia, Asian Studies Review (1985)

Suharto's style of leadership in Indonesia changed significantly over the course of his time in...

 

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The Indonesian Marxist Tradition, Marxism in Asia (1985)

Chapter examines the adaptation of Marist ideology by successive Indonesian communist thinkers. It emphasises the...

 

Environmental history

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The Homo floresiensis controversy, Kraken: archives de cryptozoologie (2009)

The 2004 announcement of the discovery of a new species of hominin in the form...

 

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Environmentalism in Indonesian Politics, Towards Integrated Environmental Law in Indonesia (2003)

Environmential politics emerged in Indonesia during the autheoritarian Suharto era. Rather than being a reaction...

 

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More smoke than fire: the 1997 'Haze' crisis and other environmental issues in Indonesia', Ecolonical Change in Southeast Asia (1998)

Reports on the 1987 haze crisis, analyses the four explanations put forward for the crisis...

 

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Birds of paradise and environmental politics in colonial Indonesia, 1890-1931, Paper landscapes: explorations in the environmental history of Indonesia (1997)

Pressure to protect the bird of paradise, native to New Guinea and eastern Indonesia, began...

 

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The Politics of Environmental Protection in Indonesia (1988)

Discusses the history of environmental protection, principally nature conservation, in Indonesia. Briefly considers colonial policies,...

 

Genocide

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Genocide in the non-Western World: implications for Holocaust studies, Genocide: cases, comparisons and contemporary debates (2003)

The example of the Holocaust has tended to dominate genocide studies, but the broader study...

 

Japanese imperialism

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Japan and transformation of national identities in the imperial era (with Li Narangoa), Imperial Japan and national Identities in Asia, 1895-1945 (2003)

Japan's view of the nationality of its Asian neightbours took many forms during the imperial...

 

Historical memory

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Remembering, forgetting and historical injustice (with Kenneth Christie), Historical injustice and democratic transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: ghosts at the table of democracy (2002)
 

Historical geography

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Hiding Borders, Skewing Perspectives and Reversing Time: Possibilities for a new generation of historical atlases (with Li Narangoa), Asia Reconstructed: Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 2006, Wollongong, Australia (2006)

New computer graphics technology puts the power to create maps into the hanmds of working...

 

Natural History

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Marine molluscs of the Capricorn and Bunker Groups, Queensland, Queensland Naturalist (1982)

Lists 233 mollusc species collected from the Southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia

 

Indonesian History - general

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Mongoler i troebbel pa Java (Mongols in trouble on Java), Dyade (2001)

Brief article in Norwegian on the unsuccessful Mongol invasion of Java in the 13th century

 

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Nation: Making Indonesia, Indonesia beyond Suharto: policy, economy, society, transition (1999)