No. 58 April - June 1999		Bookshop
		SMERU - Monitoring social crisis in Indonesia A new bulletin from the Social Monitoring and Early Response Unit of the World Bank in Jakarta. Aims to share ideas and invite discussion on the social crisis in Indonesian from a wide range of viewpoints. Its first two issues include nationwide survey data at sub-district level into the severity of the economic crisis (with maps), a survey on the effectiveness of special market operations, volatility in the rice market, and data on the history of droughts since 1950. SMERU, Jl Subang 22, Jakarta 10310, tel +62-21-390 9317 or 390 9363, fax 390 7818, email smeru@smeru.or.id. The entire bulletin is also available on the web: http://www.smeru.or.id. Journeys through shadows By Dewi Anggraeni When Maryati leaves her village in Central Java to live in Melbourne with her Australian husband Trevor, she suffers the intense pain of separation from her baby son. This novel takes the reader through Maryati’s eventual breakdown and through the satanic landscape into which her friend Eni is cast by an act of sorcery. Dewi Anggraeni’s blending of Indonesian perspectives into Australian literature opens the door for her many readers to a very different appreciation of life. Carries all the emotional and cultural interplay that has become Dewi Anggraeni’s trademark. Melbourne: Indra, 1998, 223pp, ISBN 0-9585805-0-2. Trade orders to Indra, PO Box 7, Briar Hill Vic 3088, Australia. The Spice Islands voyage - In search of Wallace By Tim Severin About a journey among the Spice Islands of equatorial Indonesia aboard a traditional native sailing vessel, and about a quest to rediscover Alfred Russel Wallace, the brilliant and intrepid naturalist who jointly proposed, with Charles Darwin, the theory of natural selection, and whose travels founded the science of zoo geography. Navigating through sparkling coral seas to remote shorelines, Tim Severin and his crew retraced the explorer’s journeys, encountering green turtles and flying foxes, observing the smuggling of rare birds and rainforest destruction, but also witnessing the emergence of a new sense of environmental awareness. Little & Brown (UK), 1998, 320pp, pbk ISBN 0349110409, rrp US$19. The Indonesian economy in the 19th and 20th centuries - A history of missed opportunities By Anne Booth Many aspects of the economic history of Indonesia, the world’s fourth largest country, remain poorly understood. This is the first comprehensive survey of Indonesian economic history in the last two centuries, which runs from the Dutch colonial era to the post-independence period. Extensive use is made of recent work by Dutch, Indonesian and Australian scholars to develop a number of key themes relating to economic growth and structural transformation of the Indonesian economy over those years. Topics include living standards and the distribution of income, the impact of international trade, investment and technological change, and markets and entrepreneurs. Macmillan UK (St Martins Press US), 1997, 384pp, pbk ISBN 0-333-55310-1, rrp AU$49.95. A new criminal type in Jakarta - Counter-revolution today. By James T Siegel Siegel studies the dependence of Indonesia’s post-1965 government on the ubiquitous presence of criminality, an ensemble of imagined forces within its society that is poised to tear it apart. Cultural and political life in Jakarta under Suharto’s New Order was controlled by a repressive regime that created new ideas among its population about crime, ghosts, fear, and national identity. Criminality pervaded the identities of ordinary citizens. The government, fearing revolution and in an attempt to assert power, made criminality itself a disturbing rationalisation for the spectacular massacre of the people it calls criminals. Indonesians, once united by Sukarno’s revolutionary proclamations in the name of ‘the people’, are now united through their identification with the criminal that emerged with Suharto’s strong counter-revolutionary measures. Duke University Press, 1998, 160pp, hbk ISBN 0-8223-2212-9 US$49.95, pbk ISBN 0-8223-2241-2 US$17, email <dup@dogberry.provost.duke.edu>. Indonesia - Law and society Edited by Timothy Lindsey The most comprehensive text in English on current Indonesian law. Gives a detailed insight into the legal and social controversies of contemporary Indonesia and a general introduction to its complex legal system. Focuses on current issues, including human rights, political reform, labour law, women’s rights, sexuality, customary land rights, judicial corruption, East Timor and the re-emergence of Islam. It also examines changing commercial culture and contract models, dispute resolution, intellectual property protection, press freedom, banking, the legal profession and the role of the economic crisis in social change. Always, however, the emphasis is on reformasi, the rule of law and prospects for the future. Contributors include leading specialists from Indonesia, Europe, North America and Australia. Sydney: The Federation Press, 1999, 418pp, ISBN 1-86287-311-9, rrp AU$44.95. For trade orders contact Federation Press, tel 02-9552 2200, fax 02-9552 1681. Female desires - Same-sex relations and transgender practices across cultures By Evelyn Blackwood & Saskia Wieringa Thirteen essays explore female eroticism in non-western societies such as India, Polynesia, Latin America, Native North America, and southern Africa. Offers compelling evidence against the commonly accepted notion that non-western women are passive victims of male domination and compulsory heterosexuality. Also dispels the idea that same-sex female desire is rooted in western neo-imperialism. Saskia Wieringa writes on butch-femme social types in Indonesia and Peru. ‘Fills a major gap in gender/ sexuality studies by providing cross-cultural material on "lesbian-like" relations outside of Europe and the United States. . . . An exciting book’ (Patricia S Lander, Brooklyn College, CUNY). Columbia University Press, 1999, 352pp, hbk ISBN 0-231-11260-2 US$49.50, pbk ISBN 0-231-11261-0 US$18.50. Women creating Indonesia - The first 50 years Edited by Jean Gelman Taylor The first half of the 20th century was a period of intellectual ferment. Susan Blackburn, Charles Coppel, Janet Elliot, Anton Lucas and Jean Gelman Taylor examine debates on women’s suffrage, issues for Sino-Indonesian women, the female workforce and how women should represent the essence of the nation. Ailsa Zain’uddin constructs a memoir of Kurnianingrat Ali Sastroamijoyo from her private notes. Papers from the 4th Women in Asia Conference, Melbourne 1993. Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute, 1997, 206pp, ISBN 0-7326-1156-3, AU$24.95, email monash.asia.institute@arts.monash.edu.au.