Introduction: Indonesian history and Pramoedya Ananta Toer; 1. Our colonial soil: Dutch colonial expansion and the creation of the basis of modern Indonesia in the Netherlands East Indies; 2. Cultures of the countryside: the lives of peasants and coolies during the colonial period; 3. 'To Assail the Colonial Machine': urban life and the development of Indonesian nationalism; 4. The Revolution: the struggle for independence, from the Japanese occupation of 1942 to the achievement of sovereignty in 1949; 5. Living in the Atomic Age: the 1950s and Sukarno's Guided Democracy; 6. From Old to New Orders: the build up to the political crisis of 1965, the killings, and the establishment of Suharto's New Order government; 7. Terror and development in Happy Land: the New Order from the late 1970s until the 1990s; 8. Age of globalisation, age of crisis: the last years of the New Order, the fall of Suharto and the period of democratic reform.
Adrian Vickers takes the reader across the social and political landscape of modern Indonesia.
Adrian Vickers is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He is author of the acclaimed Bali: A Paradise Created (1989) as well as many other scholarly and popular works on Indonesia.
'Vickers's Modern Indonesia is no one-thing-after-the-other textbook. Innovatively framed around the writings of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and invoking the arresting insights of Indonesian novelists and playwrights, it provides a stimulating, fresh understanding of Indonesia's modern, often tragic, trajectory. This is not a book written over the shoulders of nationalist politicians and military officers, but one that evokes the senses, flavours, turmoils and smells of everyday life in that irresistably complicated country.' R. E. Elson, Professor of Southeast Asian history, The University of Queensland
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