Singapore. NUS Press. 2009. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 275pp, glossary, bibliography, index, paperback. ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series. The nature of community in urban Java changed dramatically during the economic and political transition that followed the fall of the Soeharto regime in Indonesia, although the community continues..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2018. 288pp, paperback. "The anti-communist violence that swept across Indonesia in 1965-66 produced a particularly high death toll in East Java. It also transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of survivors, who faced decades of persecution, imprisonment and violence. In this book, Vannessa Hearman examines the..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2007. Maps, black and white illustrations, xviii +297 pages, index, bibliography, glossary. By the early nineteenth century, Islam had come to be the religious element in Javanese identity. But it was a particular kind of Islam, here called the 'mystic synthesis'. This Javanese mysticism had three notable..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2013. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 215 pages, index, bibliography, appendices, paperback. The years 1945-48 marked the peak of the Indonesian revolution, but they were also formative years for state-labour relationship in modern Indonesia. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, Jafar Suryomenggolo reconstructs..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2011. Black and white photographic illustrations, x + 282 pages, indices, bibliography, glossary, abbreviations, notes, appendices, paperback. Banditry was rife around Batavia (modern Jakarta) during the late colonial period. Banditry in West Java identifies the bandits and describes both their working methods and their motives, which often..... More
