Di dalam tubuhnya mengalir darah Belanda, Prancis, Jerman, dan Jawa, tapi semangatnya lebih menggelora ketimbang penduduk bumiputra. Pemerintah kolonial Belanda menerakan cap berbahaya. Ia, Ernest François Eugène Douwes Dekker, bersama Tjipto Mangoenkoesoemo dan Ki Hadjar Dewantara, adalah "Tiga Serangkai", orang- orang pertama yang mendirikan partai politik di Indonesia: Indische Partij. …
Pisani first came to Indonesia as a journalist and later as an epidemiologist specializing in HIV, living there at various times during a 25-year period. Charmed by Indonesia’s idiosyncrasies, contradictions, enigmas, disappointments, and seductions, she garnered the impression that the nation is “one giant Bad Boyfriend.” Indonesia is a string of more than 13,000 islands inhabited by peo…
Hario Kecik’s diary is without peer in Indonesian literature as a portrait of talented and brave young revolutionaries during the first days of the Republic which followed a brutal Japanese occupation and finally led to the November 1945 Battle for Surabaya, the longest, bloodiest and most decisive warfare in the Republic’s history. More than one hundred thousand young men and women - th…
Mengkaji sejarah orang Arab di Nusantara tidak akan lengkap tanpa membicarakan karya van den Berg ini yang sudah menjadi klasik. Sebagai penasihat ahli pemerintah Hindia Belanda,van den Berg merupakan doktor hukum (Islam) dari Universitas Leiden yang sangat tekun mengkaji fikih, tarekat dan bahasa Arab. Ia membatasi ruang lingkup dengan hanya menelaah orang Arab yang berasal dari Hadramaut. Van…
Asia Tenggara abad ke-13 sampai abad ke-18, yang cenderung digambarkan statis oleh sebagian sejarawan, kontras dengan pembangunan monumen pada Negara klasik dan dinamika perdagangan dari kolonialis modern, dalam pandangan Anthony Reid harus diubah. Justru pada abad ke-15 hingga pertengahan abad ke-17 inilah, Asia tenggara mengalami kotanisasi atau orientasi kota. Di kota-lah serangkaian ide …
Buku ini telah jauh melampaui kemampuan sebuah film dokumenter mengisahkan apa yang sedang dihadapi warga di pesisir ujung timur pulau jawa, dan narasi klise apa saja yang terus diproduksi Negara dalam pemujaannya di atas altar kapitalisme. -Dandhy Laksono Kekayaan alam adalah berkah. Investasi dibutuhkan untuk mengolahnya. Karpet merah musti digelar untuk perusahaan tambang. Kesempatan ker…
The second collaborative effort between independent book publisher Elevation Books and hip-hop musician and historian Herry Sutresna (aka “Ucok Homicide”) has yielded another surefire hit. Flip Da Skrip is an in-depth look into the last 10 years of hip-hop that is as insightful as it is personal. Delivered with Ucok’s characteristic wit and academic-yet-personable style of prose, the b…
Meskipun sebagai negara dengan perekonomian terbesar di Asia Tenggara, Indonesia mengalami hambatan dalam perbaikan infrastruktur. Negara demokrasi ini terbelengu oleh ragam kepentingan sempit dan politik lokal. Buku ini berisi analisis kritis atas kondisi politik yang merintangi investasi infrastruktur. Dihasilkan dari penelitian yang mendalam dengan merujuk berbagai sumber kepustakaan, kajian…
Orde Baru sukses dalam memelintir sejarah kiri di Indonesia untuk mencitrakannya sebagai ideologi iblis yang menjadi ancaman terbesar bagi negara. Terbukti, jauh sesudah Orde Baru jatuh, anti-komunisme tetap bercokol kuat dalam masyarakat Indonesia. Buku ini menjelajahi kembali faktor-faktor yang membentuk dan memelihara ideologi anti-komunis itu, bukan saja sebagai hasil dari kampanye politik,…
Ini adalah buku yang pening dan menakjubkan tentang dosa besar Amerika. -Joshua Oppenheimer, sutradara The Act of Killing dan dan The Look of Silence Buku ini adalah laporan lengkap tentang salah saUd|6]idian paling brutal dalam sejarah dunia abad ke- 20. - Greg Grandin, Profesor Sejarah di New York Univer
Shadows on the Silver Screen is the first comprehensive history of the Indonesian Cinema. Its publication begins to fill a major gap in Western film knowledge. Of all the arts, film is the most political: it is the most responsive to the political climate and the most tempting target for political manipulation. This book offers a critical look at the political and social forces which have shape…
Pada 1970-an, ketika sedang berada di Papua untuk meneliti burung, Jared Diamond ditanyai oleh sahabatnya yang orang Papua: Mengapa orang kulit putih membuat banyak barang berharga, sementara orang Papua tidak? Pertanyaan itu sebenarnya adalah pertanyaan mengenai mengapa kemajuan peradaban di berbagai benua itu berbeda-beda. Guns, Germs & Steel, buku pemenang Hadiah Pulitzer 1998, adalah jawaba…
Being "Dutch" in the Indies portrays Dutch colonial territories in Asia not as mere societies under foreign occupation but rather as a Creole empire . Most of colonial society, up to the highest levels, consisted of people of mixed Dutch and Asian descent who were born in the Indies and considered it their home, but were legally Dutch. They played a major role in the plantation industry, co…
Democratization in Indonesia has altered the political decision-making processes in many ways. It has also brought about tremendous change to the role of the Indonesian parliament in the country's political system. Once characterized as a powerless rubber stamp, the parliament has developed into a comprehensive and more representative body able to fulfil its functions more adequately. …
One of the world's best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement. In this new edition of his memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger. Ali captures the mood and energ…
Indonesia is now the fourth largest country in the world, but many aspects of its economic history remain poorly understood. Anne Booths study is the first comprehensive survey of Indonesian economic history in the 19th and 20th centuries, examining both the Dutch colonial era, and the postindependence period. Extensive use is made of recent work by Dutch, Indonesian and Australian scholars to …
Kota tumbuh dan berkembang tak cuma tergantung pada otoritas pemerintah. Warga kota patut berperan menentukan bagaimana kota yang ideal, yang dimimpikan bersama, terwujud. Peran warga bisa dimanifestasikan dalam bentuk gagasan, partisipasi aktif atas pelaksanaan kepengelolaan lingkungan atau komunitas, termasuk upaya mengawasi jalannya kepemerintahan. Buku ini merupakan sumbang saran…
This volume of the collected writings of the late Dr van Leur (1908-1942), one of the first scholars to apply Max Weber's methodology of the social sciences to the Indonesia area, contains two major studies "On Early Asia Trade" (1934) and "The World of Southeast Asia: 1500-1650" (1940), plus a briefer essay "On the Study of Indonesian History" (1937) and three reviews.
Ketika negara Republik Indonesia ini belum lahir, penduduk yang mendiami bumi nusantara ini sudah memiliki kebebasan untuk memilih pekerjaan sesuai dengan minat atau memang telah menjadi warisan leluhurnya. Sebagai jantung politik pemerintah Hindia Belanda sekaligus pusat industri, Pulau Jawa menjanjikan nafas kehidupan yang panjang. Dalam buku ini, Olivier Johannes Raap, sang penulis, menuturk…
Javanese (Indonesian people) - History. | Elite (Social sciences) - Indonesia - History. | Bureaucracy - Indonesia - History. | Indonesia - Politics and government - 1798-1942.
Surabaya sebagai kota tua yang berumur lebih dari 700 tahun bertumbuh menjadi kota besar yang terdiri dari berbagai ragam bangsa. Pada masa pendudukan Belanda di kota ini, pemerintah kolonial Belanda menetapkan pembagian wilayah hunian dan aktivitas bagi mereka, berdasarkan atas kebangsaan, seperti Chinese Kamp, Maleische Kamp, Arab Kamp, dan sebagainya. Otomatis suatu daerah atau lokasi terten…
History of socioculture of Batak Toba, an ethnic group of North Sumatra, and the struggle of Guru Somalaing against the Dutch colonial in Tapanuli in 13th-20th century.
Diterbitkan secara kolektif oleh Ultimus, Komunitas Beranda Rakyat Garuda, LBH Jakarta, YLBHI, Fakultas Seni Rupa Institut Kesenian Jakarta, GORI Bandung, Taring Padi, Galeri Foto Jurnalistik Antara, Somalaing Artstudio, Rumah Kiri, Aliansi Paralegal dan Pengacara Independen (APPI) Surabaya, Gusdurian, Front Nahdliyin untuk Kedaulatan Sumber Daya Alam, IndoProgress, Perguruan Rakyat Merdeka, Al…
This is an intensive study of Indonesian politics from the attainment of full independence in December 1949 to the proclamation of martial law in March 1957, and President Soekarno's subsequent establishment of "guided democracy." It is intended as a contribution to the ongoing discussion of democracy in the new states of Asia and Africa, of the ways in which Western political institutions are …
Edited by Douglas Kammen and Katharine McGregor The violence directed against the political left in Indonesia from 1965 until 1968 has been the subject of intense speculation. The large number of deaths, brutal interrogations, as well as rape, torture, short- and long-term detention and on-going discrimination inflicted on hundreds of thousands of people make this a compelling topic. However…
One form of performance art that came to Indonesia from China and was warmly received in Java is Wayang Potehi. This hand-puppet performance art went through its own up and downs over the centuries from political circumstances and, yet, today still maintains it original format despite the fact that majority of the artists are now Javanese. "WAYANG POTEHI OF JAVA" is a premium coffee-table book …
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process an 'anticipatory politics' that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental problems, nor does it marshal the focal cities as evidence of particular urban trends. Rather, it examines how …
With remarkable scope and in scrupulous detail, Professor Anderson analyzes the Indonesian revolution of 1945. Against the background of Javanese culture and the Japanese occupation, he explores the origins of the revolutionary youth groups, the military, and the political parties to challenge conventional interpretations of revolutionary movements in Asia. The author emphasizes that the critic…
Pada masa Eisenhower, AS berupaya mengubah arah politik Indonesia dan menggulingkan Sukarno yang cenderung sosialis. CIA secara diam-diam menyalurkan senjata untuk para jenderal yang melancarkan serangkaian pemberontakan regional. Selama Perang Dingin, tujuan utama bantuan AS kepada Indonesia bersifat politis: memperkuat kepemimpinan militer yang antikomunis karena AS amat mengkhawatirkan manuv…
"Recognising this diversity of opinion, Aspinall and Mietzner broadly identify three schools of thought in contemporary political science studies on Indonesia: The first one deems democratic change to be 'superficial, with core structures of power remaining unchanged' (p.1). In this view, mainly the old New Order elite have managed to adapt themselves to the new system and safeguard their privi…
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Chinese cuisine has had a deep impact on culinary traditions in Southeast Asia, where the lack of certain ingredients and access to new ingredients along with the culinary knowledge of local people led Chinese migrants to modify traditional dishes and to invent new foods. This process brought the cuisine of southern China, considered by some writers to be "the finest in the world," into contact…
The 26 scholars contributing to this volume have helped shape the field of Indonesian studies over the last three decades. They represent a broad geographic background—Indonesia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada—and have studied in a wide array of key disciplines—anthropology, history, linguistics and literature, government and politics, art histor…
Indonesian indie darlings. Formed by Muhammad Suar Nasution (vocals, guitar), Ade Purnama (bass), Aditya "Adhi" Ardinugraha (guitar), Yudistira "Udhi" Ardinugraha (drums) and Arief Hamdani (guitar) in 1994, they were pioneers of the Bandung indie scene. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1996, the first 5000 copies of which were sold innovatively via mail-order through a teen magazin…
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The Press in New Order Indonesia is the most comprehensive book available in English on the print media during the Suharto presidency. Based on detailed and investigative research, it provides a succinct introduction to the political and economic forces shaping this dominant sector of the Indonesian media at a pivotal time in its development. The study documents the history of the press prior t…
In 1965–66 one of the worst human tragedies in modern history occurred in Indonesia. On suspicion of having supported a communist coup, approximately 500,000 to 1,000,000 people were killed. So far the international dimension of those events is hardly explored. Although they were domestic by execution, they were also firmly embedded into the global Cold War. Foreign countries were anything bu…
The extended metropolitan regions of Southeast Asia are the dynamic cores of their national economies and societies and the frontiers of accelerating globalization. The City in Southeast Asia explores ways of moving beyond outmoded paradigms of the Third World City or a Southeast Asian city "type". It begins by contrasting the acknowledged world cities of Singapore and Hong Kong with the aspiri…
From academic electronic music to do-it-yourself noise in South East Asia. Contemporary and past noise, electroacoustic, industrial, experimental music and sound art in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar/Burma, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam. With political, historical and sociological essays, exclusive interviews with artists and organizers, as well as an extensive bib…
Social World of Batavia is a book written by Jean Taylor Gilman. This is probably one of the most complete literature of Dutch-Indonesian you could find. Written in readable language, this book contained valuable informations for any Dutch-Indonesians who are curious of their history. The first Dutch people who came to Batavia were actually consisted of low-educated soldiers which ma…
Apa itu politik? Sejak kapankah tatanan politik muncul? Seperti apakah bentuk pemerintahan yang paling ideal itu? Apa sajakah komponen dari pengetahuan politik? Apakah hubungan antara politik dan etika? Bagaimanakah wacana soal kebebasan muncul untuk pertama kalinya? Itulah sebagian pertanyaan yang diajukan dan diuraikan dalam Sejarah Pemikiran Politik Klasik: Dari Prasejarah Hingga Abad ke-4 M…