Sitor Situmorang (1924 – 2014) adalah tokoh yang kompleks. Ia adalah penyair Indonesia terkuat, penulis cerita pendek yang karyanya harus diperhitungan bagi siapa saja yang hendak membuat kumpulan cerita pendek terbaik dunia, tokoh film karena dari tangannya lahir cerita film Darah dan Doa (1950) yang dianggap sebagai tonggak pertama film Indonesia, dan eseis kebudayaan yang buah pikirannya m…
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
“Barangsiapa ingin memahami masyarakat dan politik Indonesia kontemporer, dan memakai media sebagai titik masuknya atau sebagai perangkat pemahaman, akan dimudahkan oleh kajian Tapsell ini.” David T. Hill, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University “Buku penting yang menggali hubungan antara media Indonesia, khususnya dalam bentuk digital, dengan oligarki di satu sisi, dan masyarakat …
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. …
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 …
Buku karya Benedict Anderson ini menganalisis secara intensif dan rinci asal mula revolusi Indonesia, dan dengan itu mengungkapkan ciri-ciri penting yang tidak begitu tampak dalam uraian mengenai revolusi-revolusi modern lainnya. Ia memperlihatkan betapa pola sosial-politik revolusi Indonesia itu menyimpang dari pola-pola sosial-politik revolusi modern lainnya, dan bahwa pecahnya revolusi Indo…
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.
Inilah biografi tokoh militer dan intelijen legendaris Indonesia yang sangat disegani tidak hanya di Indonesia, tetapi juga oleh negara-negara lain, terutama di kawasan Asean. Buku ini harus dimiliki oleh anda yang menggemari buku sejarah, biografi tokoh militer, terutama sejarah RPKAD (KOPASSUS TNI-AD).
In A Coincidence of Desires, Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. For more than a decade he has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality and as an activist involved in HIV prevention work. Drawing on these experiences, he provides several in-depth case studies, primarily …
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.
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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 …
Karya tentang budaya yang luar biasa. Topik angkot dan bus yang dipilih David Reeve sangat sederhana dan lekat dengan keseharian. Bagi orang Minang, angkot dan bus telah menjadi bagian dari kehidupan yang diterima dan tidak perlu dipertanyakan lagi keberadaannya (taken for granted). Namun, Reeve membedah topik ini dengan sangat rinci dan mendalam dari sudut pandang seorang budayawan—jika tida…
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 …
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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The Chinese in Indonesia have played an important role in Indonesian society before and after the fall of Soeharto. This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date information by examining them in detail during that era with special reference to the post-Soeharto period. The contributors to this volume consist of both older- and younger-generation scholars writing on Indonesian Chinese. They of…
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…
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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 twelve chapters of this book all derive from the reflections of a prominent historian on the nature of modern Indonesian history, over a 40-year time span. A central thread running through the book is the importance of the fact that Indonesia entered the modern community of nation-states through political revolution. This revolution has often been denied or downplayed as a failure because i…
"To date, most of the published scholarship on Islamist parties in Indonesia has fallen into two main categories, either single case studies, or articles that assess the grand sweep of Indonesian political parties. While many of those studies are highly insightful and theoretically grounded, comparatively few have succeeded in balancing depth with breadth. This book is impressive for several re…
Buku ini menguraikan segala sesuatu yang bertalian dengan aksara Batak: dari teknik pembuatan pustaha sampai sejarah perkembangan bentuk aksaranya, jenis aksara yang pernah beredar di Sumatra Utara, bentuk aksara cetak yang dipakai selama satu setengah abad sampai sekarang, hingga bentuk aksara komputer yang kini tersedia.
"This is, quite simply, the best book yet on post-Suharto Indonesia. Mietzner's detailed history of Indonesia's ten-year process of reform includes both a first-rate summary of the literature and much new research. ... this book is now the standard guide to Indonesian politics and a useful addition to the libraries of all students of civil-military relations and democratization more generally. …