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 Friday, 5 September 2008
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An Empire of the East
by Norman Lewis

An informative account of travels through the troublesome parts of the archipelago in 1991, including Aceh, Timor and Papua.

Drums of Tonki
by Helen & Frank Schreider

An exhilarating travelogue of island-hopping from Java to Timor.

The Year of Living Dangerously
by CJ Koch

An evocative reconstruction of life in Jakarta during the bloody and chaotic final months of Sukarno's rule.

Twilight in Jakarta
by Mochtar Lubis

A scathing account of political corruption in Indonesia, with much detail on life in the capital in the early 1960s.

A History of Modern Indonesia
by MC Ricklefs

A general history concentrating mainly on Java and the Dutch conquest.