TY - BOOK ID - 17561264 TI - A history of modern Indonesia AU - Vickers, Adrian AU - Cambridge University Press PY - 2005 SN - 9780521542623 9780521834933 9780511801020 0521542626 0521542626 0521834937 0511134312 9780511134319 0511134924 9780511134920 9780511201318 0511201311 9780511137099 0511137095 0511801025 1280308915 9781280308918 9786610308910 6610308918 0511311540 9780511311543 1107149673 DB - UniCat KW - 959.4 KW - 959.4 Geschiedenis van Indonesië KW - Geschiedenis van Indonesië KW - Indonesia KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - S31/0400 KW - Indo China and South East Asia--South East Asia general (Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, Papua New Guinea) KW - Indonésie KW - Histoire KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - 5.580. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Indonesia - History - 20th century KW - Indonesia - Politics and government - 20th century UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17561264 AB - Although Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world, its history is still relatively unfamiliar and understudied. Guided by the life and writings of the country's most famous author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Adrian Vickers takes the reader on a journey across the social and political landscape of twentieth-century Indonesia in this innovative and timely account. He begins by explaining the country's origins under the Dutch in the early part of that century, the subsequent anti-colonial struggle and revolution which led to independence in 1949. Thereafter the spotlight is on the 1950s, a crucial period in the formation of Indonesia as a new nation, which was followed by the Sukarno years, and the anti-communist massacres of the 1960s when General Suharto took over as president. The concluding chapters chart the fall of Suharto's New Order after thirty two years in power, and the subsequent political and religious turmoil which culminated in the Bali bombings in 2002. Drawing on insights from literature, art and anthropology, Adrian Vickers portrays a complex and resilient people borne out of a troubled past. ER -