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INDONESIAN MAGAZINES
MKB - occasional bulletin of Media Kerja Budaya, on issues
like censorship, television, and literature.
Available: Jaringan
Kerja Budaya, PO Box 6438 JATGD, Jakarta 13064, Indonesia, email
jkb@server.indo.net. This group also actively co-publishes
small books with other organisations.
Berita Bumi and Kabar Bumi - occasional bulletins of
Konphalindo (Konsorsium Nasional Kelestarian Hutan dan Alam
Indonesia), on issues of sustainable and environmentally
responsible development. The group has researched a variety of such
issues around Indonesia.
Available: Ruddy Gustave, email konphal@rad.net.id.
DEHUMANISASI ANAK MARJINAL, BERBAGAI PENGALAMAN
PEMBERDAYAAN
Published by Akatiga and Gugus Analisis
Eleven authors describe the life of two categories of disadvantaged
children: child labourers and street children. They go on to
discuss the strengths and limitations of child empowerment and
protection methods practised by non-government organisations in
Indonesia.
Available: Akatiga, Jl Raden Patah no. 28, Bandung 40132,
Indonesia, tel/fax +62-22-250 2622, email akatiga@nusa.or.id, 185
pp, 1996.
THE NEW RICH IN ASIA: MOBILE PHONES, MCDONALDS AND
MIDDLE-CLASS REVOLUTION
Edited by Richard Robison and David S. G. Goodman
In recent years a new middle class has emerged in East and
Southeast Asia. Their wealth is displayed by Western icons of
modernity: a meal at McDonalds or the ubiquitous mobile phone. Each
study is based on detailed field research and combines both
theoretical and empirical material on countries such as China,
Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand. The Indonesian
chapter is by Robison.
Published in London by Routledge. Available: Mandy Miller, Asia
Research Centre, Murdoch Univ., Perth, Australia, email
mandy@sunarc.murdoch.edu.au, fax 61-09-310-4944. Cost: AU$26.95
plus p/h.
REACTORS ON THE RING OF FIRE: IMPLICATIONS FOR INDONESIA'S
NUCLEAR PROGRAM
by August Schlapfer
Working Paper 65 outlines Indonesian plans to build nuclear
reactors on Java, part of the earthquake-prone 'Ring of Fire'.
Schlapfer examines issues surrounding Indonesian energy policy;
contending views on nuclear power within the government; the
implications of a Chernobyl-type accident; financial
considerations; and environmentally preferable alternatives.
Available: Mandy Miller, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch Univ.,
email mandy@sunarc.murdoch.edu.au, fax 61-09-310-4944. Cost:
AU$18.95 plus p/h.
SUBVERSION AS FOREIGN POLICY: THE SECRET EISENHOWER AND
DULLES DEBACLE IN INDONESIA
By Audrey and George Kahin
Based on unprecedented access to secret documents and interviews
with many participants, this book examines how America's foreign
policy is actually conducted. During the late 1950s, President
Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles provoked a
civil war in Indonesia aimed at transforming its government to fit
their own prescription. As great a debacle as the Bay of Pigs
affair in Cuba, Eisenhower's covert military intervention in
Indonesia was even more destructive and had longer-lasting
consequences for the local population. The Kahins have
reconstructed one of the least known and most shocking episodes of
the Cold War.
A Southeast Asian edition available from Forum, 11 Jalan 11/4E,
46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, contact: K. S. Jomo, fax
+756-1879, email g2jomo@cc.um.my. Cost AU$25 or M'sian Rgt 40.
ON THE SUBJECT OF 'JAVA'
By John Pemberton
Pemberton considers how the appearance of order under Suharto's
repressive New Order regime is an effect of an enigmatic politics
founded upon routine appeals to cultural values. Through a richly
textured ethnographic account of events ranging from national
elections to weddings, Pemberton simultaneously elucidates and
disturbs the contours of the New Order cultural imagery. Key to
this study is a reexamination of the historical conditions under
which a discourse of culture emerges.
Published by Cornell University Press, 1994. AU$29.95.
TIMOR EN GUERRE: LE CROCODILE ET LES PORTUGAIS (1847-
1913)
By Rene Pelissier
All writing about East Timor since 1975 has failed to take account
of the area's traditional hostility to any extraneous rule. Between
1847 and 1913, Lisbon, Macau and their allies mounted some 60
expeditions before the fierce warriors were to accept their
military defeat - for the time being at least. Making meticulous
use of Portuguese and Dutch sources, the author has filled one of
the last blanks on the historiographic map of the 19th and 20th
centuries. In French.
Published by Pelissier, available: Montamets, 78630 Orgeval,
France, postal cheque account: Paris 9578-05-Y, 368 pp, 360 French
Francs.
THE INDONESIAN ECONOMY SINCE 1966: SOUTHEAST ASIA'S EMERGING
GIANT
By Hal Hill
Indonesia was a 'chronic economic dropout' in the early 1960s. Yet
by the early 1990s the World Bank called it an 'East Asian miracle
economy'. Out of the turbulence of the mid-1960s has emerged one of
the developing world's major socioeconomic transformations. This is
the first book to provide an integrated treatment of the Indonesian
economy since the fall of Sukarno. It highlights Indonesia's
successes, including rapid industrialisation, food production, and
an outward-looking policy. It also looks at challenges, including
economic reform, external debt, regional disparities and the need
for predictable policy.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1996, 328pp.
AU$36.95.
THE DARK SIDE OF PARADISE : POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN BALI
by Geoffrey Robinson
How can the bloody massacre of 1965-1966 be reconciled with the
pervasive view of Bali as an earthly paradise whose people live in
harmony with nature and with each other? Robinson seeks to unravel
this paradox, and in so doing discloses previously unexplored
conflicts of class and culture which have permeated the island's
recent history. A cogent explanation of why Bali's troubled past
has such an untroubled reputation, this book is at once a unique
history and a critique of scholarly and popular portrayals of
modern Bali.
Cornell University Press, hardcover, 1995, AU$55.
