Author: Umar Kayam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780783777412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Author: Umar Kayam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Pieter R. Wiederhold
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462835651
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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A young boy who spent the first fourteen years of his life wealthy and protected suddenly faced five years of fighting to stay alive in Japanese concentration camps. Author Pieter R. Wiederhold wonders how he managed to survive at all during that difficult and horrifying time. He shares the untold story of the other holocaust and the courage and endurance of the persecuted people in his biography The Soul Conquers. Indonesia was a three hundred-year old Dutch colony at the time of the World war, and during its Japanese occupation the country suffered greatly. Many historians called this brutal occupation, with lasted until 1945, the other holocaust. The harrowing event provides the setting for a mesmerizing true story. In this memoir, Wiederhold bares his life story, recalling his experiences in the intern camps with his father and a fellow prisoner named Aaron Vandenberg God-loving man who became a source of strength for the author and his father. The Soul Conquers is a fascinating story of a young boy and his father struggling to stay alive. The authors vivid childhood experiences give us a glimpse of the sufferings during war and the inner strength that comes from the peoples will to survive. This captivating tale is Wiederholds tribute to the strength of the power of human spirit and a friendship of epic proportions. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING When the book arrived; I opened it immediately and read for a straight eight hours.....cover-to-cover nonstop. To me it was a "page turner", and with a reading glass to boot. I think Pieter has created a masterpiece......he tells a story that, as far as my past reading on WWII goes, has not been told before. I have only known Pieter professionally. I had no idea how much he suffered in his youth. Clearly it made his soul stronger........the title is well chosen. David Beaubien, Retired Sr. Vice President of E.G.&G., Inc. I finished your book last week and believe me, I was overwhelmed by it. It brought back so many memories and I used to wonder if the government made some of it up, but they could not do justice to it like your book does. I am so glad you put it down into a book. I hope someone puts it into a movie. Your bonding with Aaron van den Berg was so touching. I had tears in my eyes. You certainly are very versatile. So many different careers in one lifetime. Thanks for a wonderful and informative book". By Joan Fetterman

Author: Greg Barton
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868407593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Traces the religious, cultural and political development of JI, and argues that it has important features in common with other organisations linked to al Qaeda. Based on extensive research in Indonesia, he assesses the level of support for JI and the Indonesian government's success in dealing with the threat it poses to stability. Barton argues that, while the Indonesian authorities reacted quickly to the events in Bali, their response has not been as effective and timely as is commonly assumed in Australia.

Author: Gouri Mirpuri
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1608707903
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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This title provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Indonesia. All books of the critically-acclaimed Cultures of the World� series ensure an immersive experience by offering vibrant photographs with descriptive nonfiction narratives, and interactive activities such as creating an authentic traditional dish from an easy-to-follow recipe. Copious maps and detailed timelines present the past and present of the country, while exploration of the art and architecture help your readers to understand why diversity is the spice of Life.

Author: Anton Lucas
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
ISBN: 9780044422495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Written by a senior lecturer in Asian studies at Flinders University, this book presents a grass-roots level study of the Indonesian revolution. The author concentrates upon the Three Regions Affair (Tiga Daerah) in Pekalongan Residency in northern Central Java in 1945. Through the use of oral sources (more than 350 interviews), Dutch archives and Indonesian newspapers the author provides an insight into the revolutionary years in Indonesia. Contains time chart of events, biographical appendix, bibliography and an index.

Author: Khoon Choy Lee
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814494526
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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In May 1998, President Suharto stepped down as President of Indonesia. With his fall, the third largest country in Asia has plunged into anarchy and political, economic and social strife. Racial and religious clashes, culminating in riots, burning and chaos, have become the order of the day. Fissures in the social fabric are widening and there is a real danger that this multi-racial, multi-religious and multi-cultural country may disintegrate, just like Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Indonesia today is a fragile nation, a country in crisis. It is breaking apart because just as Sukarno had failed in his interplay of strength between Communism and the armed forces, Suharto failed to keep the balance of power between the armed forces and Islam. Moreover, the Indonesian people, by and large, have lost the spirit of tolerance, symbolised in the Indonesian state crest, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Unity in Diversity). Without this spirit, so vital to a multi-religious and plural society, Indonesia is becoming economically ravaged, spiritually plundered, politically distraught, and socially incoherent. The author served as Singapore's Ambassador to Indonesia from 1970 to 1974. His interest in Indonesia began many years ago from 1955, when he had gone to Bandung to cover the Afro-Asian conference as a journalist. As Ambassador, he had the opportunity to travel widely across the country and observe the Indonesians at close quarters. Today, his friends range from President Suharto, Indonesia's military leaders, governors, mayors, to ordinary citizens, journalists, musicians and artists. In this book, he portrays the Indonesian people, their history and their cultural traditions. He provides insightful analyses and perspectives of the political collapse of Suharto and describes the danger facing the country. Describing the diversity in the history, traditions, customs and cultures of the various ethnic groups, he understands Indonesia like no other. Bringing the outsider's clarity of perception and the journalist-diplomat's experience of tradition and history, Lee Khoon Choy speaks with authority and credibility, passion and sensitivity about the challenges facing a vast, heterogeneous country that comprises 336 ethnic groups speaking 250 dialects. Contents:Why Suharto FellThe JavaneseThe SundaneseThe BaduisThe TenggereseThe MadureseThe BalineseThe TimoreseThe ChineseThe MinangkabauThe BataksThe AcehneseThe Orang MelayuThe Bugis and MakassareseThe TorajansThe AmboneseThe BandaneseThe IrianeseThe Dayaks Readership: General. Keywords:

Author: Darmaputera
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004644482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Nils Bubandt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317682521
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world’s third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. The country has achieved a successful transition to democracy and yet Indonesian democracy continues to be flawed, illiberal, and predatory. This book suggests that this and other paradoxes of democracy in Indonesia often assume occult forms in the Indonesian political imagination, and that the spirit-like character of democracy and corruption traverses into the national media and the political elite. Through a series of biographical accounts of political entrepreneurs, all of whom employ spirits in various, but always highly contested, ways, the book seeks to provide a portrait of Indonesia’s contradictory democracy, contending that the contradictions that haunt democracy in Indonesia also infect democracy globally. Exploring the intimate ways in which the world of politics and the world of spirits are entangled, it argues that Indonesia’s seemingly peculiar problems with democracy and spirits in fact reflect a set of contradictions within democracy itself. Engaging with recent attempts to look at contemporary politics through the lens of the occult, Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian Studies, Anthropology and Political Science and relevant for the study of Indonesian politics and for debates about democracy in Asia and beyond.

Author: G. Domenig
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004274073
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 594

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In his richly illustrated Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia Gaudenz Domenig investigates the nature of Indonesian ethnic religions by focusing on land opening rituals, sacred groves, and architectural responses to the custom of presenting offerings. Since deities and spirits were supposed to taste offerings on the spot, it was a task of architecture to attract them and to guide them into houses where offerings were presented. Domenig quotes numerous sources to show that certain material elements of the house were viewed as spirit attractors, spirit ladders or spirit pathways. Various ‘exotic’ features of Indonesian vernacular architecture thus become understandable as relics from times when architecture was still responding to indigenous religions practised in the archipelago.