Book Reviews
- Paul Alexander: Creating Indonesian Cultures
- Jan Breman, Gunawan Wiradi: Good Times and Bad Times in Rural Java
- krismon and the socioeconomics of two Javanese villages
- Benjamin Brinner: Knowing Music, Making Music
Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction
- David P. Chandler, M.C. Ricklefs: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Indonesia
Essays in Honour of Professor J.D. Legge
- Robert Cribb, Audrey Kahin: Historical Dictionary of Indonesia
- a broadly useful reference work
- Robert Cribb: Historical Atlas of Indonesia**
- learned and lavish
- Robert Cribb: Digital Atlas of Indonesian History
- an updated electronic version of the printed atlas
- Robert Cribb: The Indonesian Killings 1965-1966
Studies from Java and Bali
- Bill Dalton: Indonesia Handbook
- Gavan Daws, Marty Fujita: Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia
From the Nineteenth-Century Discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Fate of Forests and Reefs in the Twenty-First Century
- Barry Dawson, John Gillow: The Traditional Architecture of Indonesia
- rumah adat across the archipelago
- Howard Dick, et al.: The Emergence of a National Economy
An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000
- Christine Drake: National Integration in Indonesia
- spatial analysis of the 1980 census
- R.E. Elson: Suharto*
A Political Biography
- Cameron Forbes: Under the Volcano
The Story of Bali
- Clifford Geertz: Agricultural Involution
The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
- Rob Goodfellow: Api Dalam Sekam
The New Order and the Ideology of Anti-Communism
- Rob Goodfellow: The Green Iguana
- vignettes of life as an Australian expatriate in Bali and Java
- Audrey Kahin: Regional Dynamics of the Indonesian Revolution**
- an unusually appealing essay collection on 1945-50
- Audrey Kahin: Rebellion to Integration
West Sumatra and the Indonesian Polity
- Margaret J. Kartomi: The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It
An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution
- Fiona Kerlogue: Batik*
Design, Style and History
- Elaine McKay: Studies in Indonesian History
- Jan Mrazek: Puppet Theater in Contemporary Indonesia
New Approaches to Performance Events
- Niels Mulder: Mysticism in Java
Ideology in Indonesia
- Multatuli: Max Havelaar
Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company
- Rob Nieuwenhuys: Mirror of the Indies
A History of Dutch Colonial Literature
- E. Breton de Nijs: Faded Portraits
A Novel of the Indies
- Pamela Noensie: Tari: the Little Balinese Dancer*
- death and the passing on of traditional culture
- Peter G. Riddell: Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World
- theology, exegesis, and religious thinkers
- Richard Robison: Indonesia: The Rise of Capital
- the development of local capitalists
- James N Sneddon: The Indonesian Language
Its History and Role in Modern Society
- Michael Tenzer: Balinese Gamelan Music*
- accessible ethnomusicology
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer: A Heap of Ashes
- short stories: a writer's life in Indonesian history
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer: This Earth of Mankind**
- the Buru Quartet: novels of colonial Indonesia
- Peter Turner, et al.: Indonesia
- the Lonely Planet travel guide
- Laurens van der Post: The Admiral's Baby
- a British officer in Java, 1945 to 1947
- Gerry van Klinken: Inside Indonesia*
- a quarterly covering politics, culture, and the environment
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Apart from the US, the UK, and New Zealand,
Indonesia is probably the foreign country I know most
about: I have been there three times, visiting parts of Java,
Bali and the Nusa Tenggara; I know a little bit of
Indonesian; and I play Central Javanese gamelan.