![]() ![]() ![]() Audrey Kahin was managing editor of Southeast Asia publications at Cornell and coeditor and editor of the journal Indonesia from 1978 to 1995. He is the author of several books on Indonesia. His research interests focus on Indonesia and include political violence, national identity, and historical geography. Robert Cribb is senior fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. With a comprehensive bibliography, maps, chronology, list of abbreviations, and appendix of election results and major office-holders, this second edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to include the past fifteen years. In more than 800 clear and succinct entries, Historical Dictionary of Indonesia covers people, places, and organizations, as well as economics, culture, and politics from Indonesia’s ancient history until the recent past. One of Asia’s newly industrializing countries, it is already a major economic powerhouse. “A sophisticated reference tool that will aid the user, of whatever background, to find immediate information about Indonesian history.” -The Journal of Asian Studies Indonesia is Asia’s third largest country in both population and area, a sprawling tropical archipelago of 180 million people, representing hundreds of ethnic groups, with a complex, turbulent history.
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