Australia: Monash University Publishing, 2014. Map, black and white illustrations in text, xxvi + 176pp, references, index, paperback. This book brings unique insight and prize-winning analysis to an extraordinary story - that of a witch-hunt and 'ninja' craze that swept a region of Java, Indonesia, in 1998. Nicholas Herriman shows..... 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