Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, encompassing nearly
eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the
world, it has a larger Muslim population than any other. "The
Indonesia Reader" is a unique introduction to this extraordinary
country. Assembled for the traveler, student, and expert alike,
the" Reader" includes more than 150 selections: journalists'
articles, explorers' chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories,
cartoons, drawings, letters, speeches, and more. Many pieces are by
Indonesians; some are translated into English for the first time.
All have introductions by the volume's editors. Well-known figures
such as Indonesia's acclaimed novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer and
the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz are featured alongside
other artists and scholars, as well as politicians,
revolutionaries, colonists, scientists, and activists.
Organized chronologically, the volume addresses early Indonesian
civilizations; contact with traders from India, China, and the Arab
Middle East; and the European colonization of Indonesia, which
culminated in centuries of Dutch rule. Selections offer insight
into Japan's occupation (1942-45), the establishment of an
independent Indonesia, and the post-independence era, from
Sukarno's presidency (1945-67), through Suharto's dictatorial
regime (1967-98), to the present "Reformasi "period. Themes of
resistance and activism recur: in a book excerpt decrying the
exploitation of Java's natural wealth by the Dutch; in the writing
of Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904), a Javanese princess considered
the icon of Indonesian feminism; in a 1978 statement from East
Timor objecting to annexation by Indonesia; and in an essay by the
founder of Indonesia's first gay activist group. From fifth-century
Sanskrit inscriptions in stone to selections related to the 2002
Bali bombings and the 2004 tsunami, "The Indonesia Reader" conveys
the long history and the cultural, ethnic, and ecological diversity
of this far-flung archipelago nation.
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