NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM THE KITLV

In the field of Indonesian studies, the Royal Institute of
Linguistics and Anthropology has once again published a number
of interesting publications.

The first is the doctoral dissertation of "Our Man in Tokyo"
Willem Remmelink, entitled:  The Chinese War and the Collapse
of the Javanese State, 1725-1743, Verhandelingen van het
Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 162,
1994, X + 297 pp.
It is the first study to give a detailed account, based on
Dutch archives and Javanese traditional babad ("historical
literature"), of Javanese history during the years 1725-1743,
a period of comparative peace brought to a disastrous end by a
devastating war, which resulted in the collapse of the
Javanese state. 

The second is The Late Colonial State in Indonesia; Political
and economic foundations of the Netherlands Indies 1880-1942,
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land-
en Volkenkunde 163, 1994, XII + 295 pp. 
This volume includes 14 contributions, written by scholars
from Australia, Indonesia and the Netherlands, which examine
various aspects of the colonial state, ranging from racial
discrimination to the operations of the colonial secret
police, from land-revenue systems to forestry policy, from
financial relations with subjugated indigenous rulers to the
earliest social scientific inquiries into public welfare.
According to the back-cover, the reader will not only find
fascinating details about the Netherlands Indies state in its
heyday, but also intriguing precursors of some of the
characteristic features of the modern Indonesian state,
including government-owned commercial enterprises and military
involvement in the administration.
The book has been edited by Robert Cribb, who is a senior
lecturer at the  University of Queensland.

The twelve contributions in Halmahera and Beyond; social
science research in the Moluccas, edited by Leontine Visser,
XI + 249 pp., is the first Proceedings published by the KITLV.
The aim of this new series is to publish papers presented at
scholarly meetings of various categories organized under the
auspices of the KITLV. It presents the outcome of the Fifth
International Workshop on Indonesian Studies organized by
KITLV in 1990. This volume brings together articles by 12
internationally acclaimed scholars and provides an insight
into current issues in the academic debate on Eastern
Indonesia and regional development. The achievements and
shortcomings of international scholarship in this area in the
1980s are also discussed. The bibliography at the end of the
book, constitutes a necessary complement to Katrien Polman's
bibliographies of the North (1981) and Central Moluccas (1983)
both also published by the KITLV.


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