Correction
Unlike email addresses, Web site addresses (known as URLs) are case sensitive. We forgot this ourselves when in the last issue we got the case wrong for an important Web site. The correct address for the archive site of apakabar should have read: gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:2998/7REG-INDONESIA. Try it with some obscure keyword - names work best - it is excellent!
ETAN
Now for some other interesting sites. East Timor activists will find much of value in the homepage of the East Timor Action Network (ETAN) in New York, largely maintained by Charles Scheiner and John Miller: gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org/11/peace/timor.gopher. The name tells you (obviously!) that it is a gopher site, but it can be reached by a normal Web browser.
Among others, it offers contact details for a large number of East Timor support and solidarity groups around the world, a bibliography, weekly East Timor news summaries, and documents from United Nations hearings and voting patterns.
Journals
If you are doing research and read Indonesian, you need to know about two important resources. One is a wonderful project at Australian National University to index an array of current Indonesian magazines. The result is a searchable database at the following address: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/AJC/IND/Indonesia- jrnls.html. When you enter a keyword, it will (hopefully) come up with a list of magazine tables of contents where that word appears in the title or short description. You must then find the magazine yourself (this could be the hard part...).
Michael Laffan who built the database has indexed thirty-eight journals, all at least for 1995 and early 1996, with some going back several years. Social sciences are the focus - current affairs, Islam, business and economics, history, health, law, and others. Unfortunately, funding for this project has dried up and it has just been discontinued. But there is a lot of data there, and it is at its most useful right now.
Who's Who?
Last time I trumpeted the fact that Tempo was back, in an Internet incarnation. In fact, besides turning out some excellent articles, Tempo Interaktif provides two other major services. One is a project to provide all (yes, all!) past issues of Tempo from 1971 to June 1994 for Web readers. It already goes back to January 1993.
The other is the 'Who's Who?' Tempo was famous for in the 1980s. This described hundreds of significant Indonesian figures in government, business, the arts, and so on. The entire database of the 1986 edition has now been transferred to the Tempo Web site. What's more, the updated 1996 edition is gradually being put up and should be complete by the time you read this! (I did find the search procedure less than ideal.)
There's a small catch - you must register as a Tempo subscriber first. However, registration is quick and costs nothing. Go to http://www.idola.net.id/tempo and click on 'pendaftaran anggota'. Remember, this is all in Indonesian.
Gamelan
If the sonorous tones of Javanese gamelan music transport you to a seventh heaven, here's something for you. A Dutch physicist named Geert Jan van Oldenborgh has made available an extensive list of CD and cassette tape titles of Javanese and Sundanese gamelan music, as well as some of kroncong music.
More than that, he provides reviews of all of them, and even short segments of the music (if you have the right gear to enjoy it). You can find this at: http://rulgm4.LeidenUniv.nl/gj/gamelan/gamelan_reviews.html . You will become aware of other Internet resources on gamelan by reading this homepage too.
Gerry van Klinken
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