Buku ini dicap sebagai �bacaan berbahaya� sejak per�tama kali terbit dalam bahasa Swedia 30 tahun lalu. Tetapi sebagai karya, daya tariknya bukan hanya pada bagaimana kekuasaan Orba begitu takut pada buku ini, melainkan cara T�rnquist menempatkan pokok pembahasan atas Peristiwa G30S 1965. T�rnquist mengupas persoalan yang hampir tidak pernah dicermati sungguh-sungguh di dalam karya-ka…
Kota-kota pusaka di Indonesia tidak terlepas dari sejarah masa kolonial. Setelah masa kemerdekaan, perkembangan kota yang dinamis dan terkadang kontradiktif, telah memberikan ruang interaksi antara masa lalu dan masa kini. Adalah sebuah pertanyaan menarik tentang bagaimana kita dapat menikmati keunikan kota pusaka melalui jelajah santai untuk menyaksikan langsung pesona kota sampai ke gang-gang…
Setelah dua dekade reformasi, Indonesia telah mengalami demokratisasi secara mengagumkan, khususnya ketika torehan-torehan demokrasinya ditempatkan dalam perspektif komparatif. Namun, ketika kita menilik lebih dekat secara analitis untuk menyigi rezim politik Indonesia, ekonomi-politiknya, serta bagaimana mobilisasi berbasis identitas telah menyeruak, maka akan tampak jelas bahwa Indonesia pasc…
Buku ini buku pertama yang merekam denyut manusia-manusia yang menghidupkan pasar terpenting di Sulawesi Selatan
Studies of Indonesian politics have long focused upon the military and the bureaucracy because it is within these institutions that formal power is located, not the parties, unions, chambers of commerce or corporations. However, such an approach can neglect the powerful influences exerted upon the state by social and economic forces. This important and controversial new book examines the way in…
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…
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
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 …
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.
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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 …
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…
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 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…
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. …
"Keen observation and a strong storyline are the twin marks of good historical analysis. Political Reform in Indonesia After Soeharto is and will probably long remain the best single overview we have of institutional reform in the 10 years since President Suharto resigned in 1998. It is authoritative, well documented, and written in a clear, lively style. Culminating a long academic career obse…
The most important study of Javanese religion since Clifford Geertz's Religion of Java (1960). An ethnographically rich and historically detailed portrait of the last Hindu enclave in Muslim Java, Hefner's work is also a compelling account of the symbolic processes involved in religious conversion. . . . This is a brilliant study which is certain to appeal to readers concerned with post-structu…
Cerita kehidupan Keraton Yogyakarta sudah banyak dituliskan dalam pelbagai judul buku. Tapi tidak kisah di beranda belakangnya. Khususnya hayat hidup masyarakat di Kelurahan Patehan yang terdiri dari Ngadisuryan, Taman, Nagan, dan Patehan
Ringkasan Buku Yogyakarta 19 Desember 1948 - Jenderal Spoor Vs Jenderal Sudirman Niederwerfungs strategie atau strategy of annihilation, strategi penghancuran, dengan melumpuhkan Yogyakarta sebagai sentra gravita Republik Indonesia adalah pendekatan yang diyakini ampuh oleh Belanda untuk melenyapkan RI. Pendekatan yang merupakan ajaran Carl von Clausewitz itu diterapkan Belanda saat …
Apa yang menjadikan Indonesia tetap bersatu padu? "Pemimpin yang Kuat" adalah jawaban yang paling sering diberikan. Sebaliknya, buku ini melihat jawabannya pada tingkat menengah dalam masyarakat. Kelas menengah di kota-kota provinsi di seluruh Nusantara menjadi penghubung antara negara dan masyarakat dan turut membentuk kekuasaan negara. The Making of Middle Indonesia meneliti kebangkitan sebua…
Hasil konferensi internasional "Sejarah Kota" yang diadakan dalam rangka program penelitian "Indonesia Across Orders. The Reorganisation of Indonesian Society, 1930-1960", yang bekerja sama dengan Jurusan Sejarah, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Airlangga.
Dutch colonialism go to hell! screams a banner hung by demonstrators on the railings of the Dutch Embasssy in Jakarta in 1960. The shared history of the Netherlands and Indonesia has been defined by conflict and controversy. Bitter Spice. Indonesia and the Netherlands from 1600 is about that long, shared past. Major themes, such as colonial repression, violence, Indonesian nationalism, the stru…
Buku ini telah menjadi karya klasik untuk menelusuri jejak pemikiran mengenai awal Indonesia modern dan bangkitnya nasionalisme. Savitri Prastiti Scherer, melalui penggambaran biografi tiga pemimpin terkemuka pionir nasionalisme pertama—Soetomo, Tjipto Mangoenkoesoemo dan Soewardi Soerjaningrat—menggambarkan bagaimana mereka berada di depan, di tengah zaman awal kemodernan Indonesia awal ab…
”Kita membangun koperasi supaya koperasi membangun kemakmuran masyarakat” Dr. Mohammad Hatta sebagai Bapak Koperasi Indonesia telah memberikan teladan berkoperasi yang baik melalui bukunya ini, Membangun Koperasi dan Koperasi Membangun. Mohammad Hatta dengan tuntas mengupas pedoman, falsafah, dan dasar praktis berkoperasi. Inilah warisan pemikiran visioner Mohammad Hatta yang mengandung …
This book explores a phase in the history of both Indonesia and Singapore that is little known. It is a narrative analysis of how the dynamics of the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) overflowed into Singapore. In turn, Singapore was a base for the Indonesian nationalists, the British, the Dutch, and Chinese traders, with each group exploiting prevailing circumstances for their own interests. I…
As Indonesia emerges from authoritarian rule, public intellectuals have begun to question the way the country's past has been remembered, memorialized and inscribed. Mary Zurbuchen's edited collection of essays addresses the many ways in which Indonesians have dealt with memory, its formation and its manipulation. The authors consider how narratives of the past have taken shape local, nation…