Norman Lewis was eighty-three years old when in 1991 he embarked on
a series of three arduous journeys into the most contentious
corners of Indonesia: into the extreme western edge of Sumatra,
into East Timor and Irian Jaya. He never drops his guard, reporting
only on what he can observe, and using his well-honed tools of
irony, humour and restraint to assess the power of the ruling
Javanese generals who for better or worse took over the 300-year
old dominion of the exploitative Dutch colonial regime. An Empire
of the East is the magnificent swan-song of Britain's greatest
travel writer: unearthing the decimation of the tropical rain
forests in Sumatra, the all but forgotten Balinese massacre of the
communists in 1965, the shell-shocked destruction of East Timor,
the stone-age hunter-gathering culture of the Yali tribe (in
western Papua New Guinea) and perhaps most chilling of all, his
visit to the Freeport Copper mine in the sky - which is like a
foretaste of the film Avatar - but this time the bad guys, complete
with a well-oiled publicity department, triumph. He left us with a
brilliant book, that reveals his passion for justice and his
delight in every form of human society and still challenges our
complacency and indifference.
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