Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and book reviews. Published Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program since April 1966, the journal provides area scholars and interested readers with contemporary analysis of Indonesia and an extensive archive of research pertaining to the nation and region. Currently, only back issues of Indonesia are available for purchase through Cornell University Press's website.
Articles
Titik Api: Harry Roesli, Music, and Politics in Bandung, Indonesia
by Adam D. Tyson
Betawi Moderen: Songs and Films of Benyamin S from Jakarta in the 1970s—Further Dimensions of Indonesian Popular Culture
by David Hanan and Basoeki Koesasi
The Music of Bedhaya Anduk: A Lost Treasure Rediscovered
by Noriko Ishida
Ulama Hill
by Benedict R. O'G. Anderson
The Free Aceh Elections?: The 2009 Legislative Contests in Aceh
by Shane Joshua Barter
Stalin and the New Program for the Communist Party of Indonesia
by Larisa M. Efimova, with introduction by Ruth T. McVey
The Perfect Policeman: Colonial Policing, Modernity, and Conscience on Sumatra's West Coast in the Early 1930s
by Marieke Bloembergen
Review Essay: Islam in the Indonesia Tradition—Luthfi Assyaukanie, Islam and the Secular State in Indonesia; Robin Bush, Nahdlatul Ulama and the Struggle for Power within Islam and Politics in Indonesia
by Robert Hefner
Reviews
Andrew N. Weintraub, Dangdut Stories: A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's Most Popular Music
reviewed by R. Anderson Sutton
Henry Spiller, Erotic Triangles: Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java
reviewed by Christina Sunardi
Masdar Hilmy, Islamism and Democracy in Indonesia: Piety and Pragmatism
reviewed by Michael Buehler
Bernard Platzdasch, Islamism in Indonesia: Politics in the Emerging Democracy
reviewed by Julie Chernov Hwang
Edward Aspinall and Marcus Mietzner, eds., Problems of Democratisation in Indonesia: Elections, Institutions, and Society
reviewed by Peni Hanggarini
Abidin Kusno, The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia
reviewed by Howard Federspiel
Cynthia Chou, The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia: The Inalienable Gift of Territory
reviewed by Timo Kaartinen
Peter Post, William H. Frederick, Iris Heidebrink, Shigeru Sato, et al., The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War: In cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation
reviewed by I Ketut Ardhana