Indonesia
Young Soeharto: The making of a soldier, 1921–1945 by David Jenkins
by David Reeve •
A Narrative of Denial: Australia and the Indonesian violation of East Timor by Peter Job
by Ken Ward •
Walter Spies by John Stowell & Brown Boys and Rice Queens by Eng-Beng Lim
by Ian Britain •
That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the search for the Indonesian Solution (Quarterly Essay 53) by Paul Toohey
by Stephen Atkinson •
Have the Bali Bombings completely changed our view of Indonesia? Although obviously not designed to do so, these three books provide necessary background on how such an atrocity might be possible in the near-anarchic circumstances of that country. They also give a wide-ranging and informative picture of the present state of Indonesia in all its chaos and uncertainty. They make sobering reading, as if Indonesian politics is a mixture of Shakespearean tragedy, Javanese shadow play and gangster drama: Hamlet, Semar and The Godfather.
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