The Indonesia reader: history, culture, politics

Early histories

The Kutei inscriptions in Borneo / Anonymous

The shadow of India / Upendra Thakur

The genesis of Indonesian archaeology / R. P. Soejono

Javanese inscriptions / Himansu Bhusan Sarkar

What was Srivijaya? / George Cœdès

Srivijaya revisited / Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h

Arab navigation in the archipelago / G. R. Tibbetts

Viewing the Borobudur / Jan Poortenaar

In praise of Prambanan

The Nãgarakrtãgama / Mpu Prapañca

Images Arjuna and Kresna

Early modern histories

Ibn Battuta at Pasai / Ibn Battuta

Chinese Muslims in Java / H. J. de Graaf and Th. F. Pigeaud

Portuguese sources on products and the Monsoons / Robert Nicholl

The first Dutch voyage to the Indies, 1596 / Willem LodewijcksZ

The web of Batik

An Englishman in Banten / Edmund Scott

A harem in Aceh

Contract with Banjarmasin

General missives of the VOC

Negara: the theatre state in Bali / Clifford Geertz.

Cultures in collision

The Tuhfat al-Nafis / Raja Ali al-Haji Riau

The Hikayat Abdullah / Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi

The La Galigo as bugis history / Sirtjo Koolhof

The Babad Diponegoro in Java / Peter Carey

Sasak literature of Lombok / Geoffrey Marrison

Max Havelaar / Multatuli

A naturalist climbs a mountain / Alfred Russel Wallace

Surveilling the Arabs / Consulate Officials

A pioneer of women's rights / Raden Ajeng Kartini

Chinese coolies to Sumatra / William Pickering

Through travelers' eyes

Visiting Banjarmasin / Daniel Beekman

The lure of spices in the Moluccas

An Englishman in New Guinea / Thomas Forrest

Letters from Chinese merchants to Batavia / Leonard Blussé

Pirates on the Java Sea / George Earl

Colonial geography in Kei and Flores / C.M. Kan

Bugis ships of Sulawesi

Traversing the interior of Palembang / H. H. van Kol

The zoology of the Indies / L. F. de Beaufort

The Indonesian Hajj in colonial times.

High colonial Indies

Chinese traders in the villages / M. R. Fernando and David Bulbeck

Is opium a genuine evil? / J. Groneman

River travel in the Padang uplands

Ethnographic notes on Sumba / J. J. van Alphen

Advice on Islam / C. Snouck Hurgronje

Marriage in Minahasa / Anonymous

Shooting a tiger / Anonymous

The endless war in Aceh / Aceh Documentation Center

Beriberi: disease among the troops

Protestant missions in the Indies / Baron van Boetzelaer van Dubbeldam

The oceanography of the archipelago / G. F. Tydeman

The last decades of the Indies

Java's railways / S. A. Reitsma

The eruption of Krakatoa / R. A. van Sandick

Colonizing central Sulawesi / Joost Coté

The welfare on Java and Madura / Dutch East Indies Welfare Committee

The Balinese Puputan / Jhr. H. M. Van Weede

The Sarekat Islam Congress, 1916 / O. S. Tjokroaminoto

The youth oath / Anonymous

The adventures of a new language / Benedict R. O'G. Anderson

Community of exiles in Boven Digul / Mas Marco Katrodikromo

Out of bounds / Soewarsih Djojopoespito

Changes in Indonesian society / Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana

Me and Toba / P. Pospos.

From nationalism to independence

Government news / Gunseikanbu

Years of silence / Ruff-O'Herne

Drawings from a Japanese camp / Mieneke Van Hoogstraten

Exploring Panca Sila / Sukarno

Memories of a freedom fighter / Roswitha Djajadiningrat

Revolutionary poetry / Chairil Anwar

Straightening out celebes / Raymond Westerling

The 1948 Madiun incident / Suar Suroso

The South Moluccan case / Department of Public Information of the Republic of South

Moluccas

The old order, the new order; political climate

The 1955 elections / Herbert Feith

Joint proclamation text / Abdul Qahhar Mudzakkar

I am a Papua / Zacharias Sawor

A soldier stateman / Julius Pour

The mass killings of 1965/66 / Robert Cribb

Suharto, my thoughts, words, deeds / Suharto

Student demonstrations / R. Slamet Iman Santoso

Cartoons / Sjahrir

Our struggle against Indonesian aggression / Republica Democratica de Timor Leste.

Social issues and cultural debates

Cultural workers must lead the way / Amya Iradat

The 1963 cultural manifesto

The Chinese minority in Indonesia / Leo Suryadinata

The young divorcee / Nh. Dini

Tracing the twilight of Jakarta / Yuyu A. N. Krisna

The mute's soliloquy / Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Marsinah accuses / Ratna Sarumpaet

Why was TEMPO banned? / Team of TEMPO journalists

Saman / Ayu Utami

Into the twenty-first century

Jakarta, February 14, 2039 / Seno Gumira Ajidarma

Jakarta 2039, forty years after May 13/14, 1998 / Seno Gumira Ajidarma and Zacky

If PAN wins the election / Amien Rais

Gays and lesbians in Indonesia / Dédé Oetomo

The violence in Ambon / Human Rights Watch

The Bali bombing / interview with Imam Samudera

Megawati Sukarnoputri / Fabiola Desy Unidjaja

Saving the Komodo dragons / Indira Permanasari

Post-tsunami Aceh / Scott Baldauf

The Danish cartoon controversy / Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

The politics of bare flesh / Desi Anwar.