bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Book Reviews
Authors: Wal S.L. , Thio Eunice , Bassett D.K. , Turnbull C.M. , Sluimers L. , Anderson B.R. O’G. , Dijk C. , Lyon Margo L. , Foster Brian L. , Shorto H.L. , Jansen Schoonhoven E. , Akkeren Ph. , Emst P. , Udy S.H. , Baal J. , Strathern Marilyn , Emst P. , Lewis David
Published: April 2013

- S.L. van der Wal, Eunice Thio, British policy in the Malay Peninsula 1880-1910. Volume I, The Southern and Central states, University of Malaya Press, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur 1969. - D.K. Bassett, C.M. Turnbull, The Straits Settlements 1826-67: Indian Presidency to Crown Colony. The Athlone Press, London 1972. pp. x, 428. - L. Sluimers, B.R. O’G. Anderson, Java in a time of revolution: Occupation and resistance 1944-1946. Ithaca enz., Cornell University Press, 1972. - C. van Dijk, Margo L. Lyon, Bases of conflict in rural Java. Research Monograph Series, Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies. University of California, Berkeley, California, December 1970. 79 p. - Brian L. Foster, H.L. Shorto, A dictionary of the Mon inscriptions from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries. London: Oxford University Press (London Oriental Series. Volume 24), 1971. 406 p. - E. Jansen Schoonhoven, Philip van Akkeren, Sri and Christ. A study of the indigenous church in East Java. Lutterworth Press, London 1970. 229 p. - P. van Emst, S.H. Udy, Work in traditional and modern society. Modernization of traditional societies series. Prentice Hall, Inc. Engelwood Cliffs, N.J., 1970. Pp. IX & 134, tables, figs. - J. van Baal, Marilyn Strathern, Women in between. Female roles in a male world: Mount Hagen, New Guinea. Seminar Press, London & New York 1972, 372 p. - P. van Emst, David Lewis, We, the navigators. The ancient art of landfinding in the Pacific. Australian National University Press, Canberra 1972. XVIII & 345 pp., 63 figs., 13 plates, 7 maps.
Book Reviews
Authors: Broek G.J. , Brink J.H. , Holtzappel C. , Hill R.D. , Jordaan Roy E. , Huntington R. , Josselin de Jong P.E. , Becker A.L. , Nas Peter J.M. , Hannerz Ulf
Published: April 2013

- G.J. van den Broek, J.H. van den Brink, The Haida Indians, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974. - C. Holtzappel, R.D. Hill, Rice in Malaya; A study in historical geography. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford, New York, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1977. 234 pp. - Roy E. Jordaan, R. Huntington, Celebrations of death. The anthropology of mortuary ritual, Cambridge University Press, London - New York - Melbourne, 1979., P. Metcalf (eds.) - P.E. de Josselin de Jong, A.L. Becker, The imagination of reality: Essays in Southeast Asian coherence systems, xvi, 336 pp., index, ills. and figs. Ablex, Norwood, New Jersey 1979., Aram A. Yengoyan (eds.) - Peter J.M. Nas, Ulf Hannerz, Exploring the city. Inquiries toward an urban anthropology, Columbia University Press, New York, 1980. X, 378 pp.
Book Reviews
Authors: Hill David T. , Rosidi Ajip , Lohuizen-de Leeuw J.E. , Archer Mildred , Pluvier J.M. , Kwantes R.C. , Ras J.J. , Mulder Niels , Schaareman Danker H. , Seebass et al. Tilman , Schaareman Danker , Schlager Ernst , Teeuw A. , Carle Rainer
Published: April 2013

- David T. Hill, Ajip Rosidi, Laut biru langit biru. Pustaka Jaya (PJ 330), Jakarta, 1977. - J.E. van Lohuizen-De Leeuw, Mildred Archer, Indian popular painting in the India Office Library, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London 1977, 196 pp., 92 black-and-white and 6 coloured illus. - J.M. Pluvier, R.C. Kwantes, De ontwikkeling van de nationalistische beweging in Nederlandsch-Indië; bronnenpublikatie. Tweede stuk, medio 1923-1928. Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1978. xxxviii + 783 blz. Afkortingen, woordenlijst, registers. - J.J. Ras, Niels Mulder, Mysticism and everyday life in contemporary Java, Cultural persistence and change, issued under the auspices of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore University Press, 1978, XIX and 150 pages. - Danker H. Schaareman, Tilman Seebass et al., The Music of Lombok. A first survey, Forum Ethnomusicologicum, Series I: Basler Studien zur Ethnomusikologie 2, Francke-Verlag Bern, 1976. 71 blz., 8 platen, 1 kaart. - Danker H. Schaareman, Ernst Schlager, Rituelle Siebenton-Musik auf Bali, Herausgegeben von Hans Oesch. Forum Ethnomusicologicum, Series I: Basler Studien zur Ethnomusikologie I, Francke-Verlag Bern, 1976. Vol I: 222 pp., Vol II: 82 musical examples. - A. Teeuw, Rainer Carle, Rendras Gedichtsammlungen (1957-1972). Ein beitrag zur kenntnis der zeitgenössischen indonesischen Literatur. Veröffentlichungen des seminars für Indonesische und Südseesprachen der Universität Hamburg. Band 11 Hamburg 1977. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer in Berlin. IV und 385 Seiten.
Flows of words and flows of blessing: The poetics of invocatory speech among the Sa’dan Toraja
Authors: Waterson Roxana
Published: April 2013

The human propensity to address the unseen is a profound anthropological and linguistic puzzle. Ethnographers of ‘prayer’ in Southeast Asia have proposed that invocations are opposed as a form of utterance to other genres such as narration. This paper challenges that assumption with the analysis of some Toraja examples having a more declarative and instrumental quality. It also expands on Schefold’s observations (2001) about ‘flows of blessing’ as a characteristically Austronesian concept. Above all, the intensely poetic qualities of Toraja invocations suggest the possibility of a deeper link between prayer and poetry, as linguistic genres intended to move the hearer.
Hamatak halirin: The cosmological and socio-ecological roles of water in Koba Lima, Timor
Authors: Kehi Balthasar , Palmer Lisa
Published: April 2013

The cosmological and socio-ecological roles of water, in particular spring water, have not been the subject of sustained analysis in the anthropological literatures of the eastern archipelago. Taking as our starting point the central role of water in the origin narratives and ritual practices of Koba Lima, a coalition of five ancient kingdoms located across the division of East Timor and Indonesian West Timor, we explore the profound cosmological meanings and many layered understandings of life and death associated with water. We argue that in this nuanced socio-ecological world, water is the blood and milk of the mother transformed into life itself through father fire. It is through these transformative capacities connected to water that the boundaries separating the visible and invisible worlds can be permeated, enabling the living access to matak malirin or good health and productive life force. The paper is both a contribution to the literature on archipelagic socio-cosmic dualisms and a unique ethnography which presents new material on the significance of water in this region.
The discovery of Javanese writing in a Sri Lankan Malay manuscript
Authors: Ricci Ronit
Published: April 2013

Beyond the boundaries of what is typically considered the Indonesian-Malay world, a small community known today as the Sri Lanka Malays continued to employ the Malay language in writing and speech long after its ancestors left the Indonesian archipelago and Malay peninsula for their new home. Although it is reasonable to assume that the ancestors of the Malays spoke a variety of languages, at least initially, no traces of writing in another Indonesian language have ever been found. Below I present the first evidence of such writing, in Javanese, encountered in an early nineteenth century manuscript from Colombo.
Book reviews
Authors: KITLV Redactie
Published: April 2013

Tony Day and Maya H.T. Liem (eds), Cultures at war: The Cold War and cultural expression in Southeast Asia (Manneke Budiman)

Fox, Richard, Critical reflections on religion and media in contemporary Bali (Martin Ramstedt)

Faisal S. Hazis, Domination and contestation: Muslim bumiputera politics in Sarawak (Gerhard Hoffstaedter)

Liesbeth Hesselink, Healers on the colonial market: Native doctors and midwivesin the Dutch East Indies (Leo van Bergen)

May Ingawanij and Benjamin McKay (eds), Glimpses of freedom: Independent cinema in Southeast Asia (Katinka van Heeren

Laura Jarnagin (ed.), The making of the Luso-Asian world: Intricacies of engagement (Hans Hägerdal)

J.J.P. de Jong, Avondschot: Hoe Nederland zich terugtrok uit zijn Aziatisch imperium (William H. Frederick)

Eben Kirksey, Freedom in entangled worlds: West Papua and the architecture of global power (Pieter Drooglever)

Lev, Daniel S., No concessions: The life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian human rights lawyer (Gerry van Klinken)

Rémy Madinier, L’Indonésie, entre démocratie musulmane et Islam intégral: Histoire du parti Masjumi (1945-1960) (Chiara Formichi)

Rod Nixon, Justice and governance in East Timor: Indigenous approaches and the ‘New Subsistence State’ (Hans Hägerdal)

Philippe M.F. Peycam, The birth of Vietnamese political journalism: Saïgon 1916-1930 (Pierre Brocheux)

Harry Poeze, Madiun 1948: PKI bergerak (Avsi Warman Adam)

Ronit Ricci, Islam translated: Literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia (William Cummings)

Sokhieng Au, Mixed medicines: Health and culture in French colonial Cambodia (Leo van Bergen)

Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian, Palace, political party and power: A story of the sociopolitical development of Malay Kingship (A.J. Stockwell)

G. Teitler, Op het koloniale oorlogspad; De strijd tegen Moslim-fundamentalisten ter Westkust van Sumatra (1817-1838), vergeleken met de Russische verovering van Tjetsjenië en Dagestan (1817-1859) (Joshua Gedacht)

Gerard Termorhuizen, Realisten en reactionairen: Een geschiedenis van de Indisch-Nederlandse pers 1905-1942 (Pieter Drooglever)

Tjien Oei (ed.), Memoirs of Indonesian doctors and professionals 2; More stories that shaped the lives of Indonesian doctors (Vivek Neelakantan)

Tomomi Ito, Modern Buddhism and Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu: A social history (Justin McDaniel)

Geoff Wade and Li Tana (eds), Anthony Reid and the study of the Southeast Asian past (Henk Schulte Nordholt)

Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon (eds), Contestations of memory in Southeast Asia (Kevin Blackburn)
Korte signaleringen
Authors: Poeze Harry A.
Published: April 2013

Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer, Goud uit Java/Gold from Java Titus M. Eliëns, Zilver uit Batavia/Silver from Batavia

P.J. Rietbergen, De Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, 1602-1795: ’s Werelds eerste multinational tussen commercie en cultuur

Clemens Verhoeven, Het vergeten korps: De geschiedenis van de Koloniale Reserve

N.S. Efthymiou, Grondrechten in Nederlands-Indië

F.J.A.M. van der Helm, M.B. Rost van Tonningen (1852-1927): Het familieleven van de Lombokgeneraal

Hans Goedkoop, De laatste man: Een herinnering

J.A.A. van Doorn en W.J. Hendrix, Ontsporing van geweld: Het Nederlands-Indonesisch conflict
Twenty years on: Poverty and hardship in urban Fiji
Authors: Bryant-Tokalau Jenny
Published: April 2013

Through ‘official statistics’, academic and donor interpretations as well as the eyes of Suva residents, this paper presents an overview and case study of twenty years of growing poverty and hardship in the contemporary Pacific. Focusing on the past two decades, the paper notes how much, and yet so little, has changed for those attempting to make a living in the rapidly developing towns and cities. Changing interpretations of poverty and hardship are presented, moving from the ‘no such thing’ view, to simplification, and finally to an understanding that Pacific island countries, especially Fiji, are no longer an ‘extension’ of Australia and New Zealand, but independent nations actively trying to find solutions to their issues of economic, social and political hardship whilst facing challenges to traditional institutions and networks. Fiji is in some respects a very particular case as almost half of the population has limited access to secure land, but the very nature of that vulnerability to hardship and poverty holds useful lessons for wider analysis.
Longitudinal change in East Timorese tertiary student attitudes to national identity and nation building, 2002-2010
Authors: Leach Michael
Published: April 2013

The attitudes of the tertiary students who are likely to comprise the next generation of leaders are pivotal to understanding the challenges of nation-building and national identity formation in post-conflict settings such as Timor-Leste. This article examines post-independence debates over national identity in Timor-Leste, presenting the findings of a longitudinal survey (Dili, 2002, 2007 and 2010) of East Timorese tertiary student attitudes to national identity. In particular, in the wake of the 2006 political-military crisis, the paper examines the evidence for differences in attitudes between students from eastern and western districts, concluding that the few significant differences in attitudes peaked in the 2007 survey, and were associated with the overt politicization of regional identity within Dili, and concerns over post-independence leadership, rather than any genuine ‘ethnic’ or ‘regional’ variation in attitudes. The paper also examines significant changes in some youth attitudes since independence, including a significant increase in the acceptance of the co-official status of the Portuguese language in the tertiary student demographic since the early years of independence. The survey also highlights the ongoing importance of tradition and adat in understandings of political community, but reveals significant gender differences in attitudes towards the role of traditional authorities.
Coconuts and the emergence of violence in Sulu: Beyond resource competition paradigms
Authors: Orr Yancey
Published: April 2013

Agricultural differentiation can lead to cultural differentiation. Among the Sulu Archipelago’s Tausug in south Philippines, increased coconut production has resulted in more violence and banditry among individuals and communities than among other Tausug populations engaged in other economic activities. Although resource competition in social theory has been used to explicate the connections between agriculture and violence (Vayda, Rappaport, Homer-Dixon, Stinchcombe, Peluso, Watts), this is not the case in Sulu. Coconut production influences violence through its low labour requirement which allows the intensification of culturally valued male violence (rites of passage, feuding); the low level of skills entailed in its cultivation and harvesting which limits the roles men can play in Tausug society; and the lack of ‘nurturing’ (as an activity) inherent in its cultivation.
Piety, aspiration, and everyday life in Muslim Southeast Asia
Authors: Kloos David
Published: April 2013

Review of:

Sylva Frisk, Submitting to God: Women and Islam in urban Malaysia. Copenhagen: NIAS, 2009, xvii + 216 pp. ISBN: 9788776940485. Price: GBP 16.99 (paperback).

Johan Fischer, Proper Islamic consumption: Shopping among the Malays in modern Malaysia. Copenhagen: NIAS, 2008, xix + 258 pp. ISBN:978877694-317, price: GBP 40.00 (paperback); 9788776940324, GBP 17.99 (paperback); 9788776945220, GBP 25.99 (ebook).

Nina Nurmila, Women, Islam and everyday life: Renegotiating polygamy in Indonesia. Abindon: Routledge, 2009, xvii + 197 pp. ISBN: 9780415468022, price: GBP 90.00 (hardback); 9780415673877, GBP: 26.00 (paperback); 9780203878545, GBP 80.00 (ebook).
Sutan Pangurabaan rewrites Sumatran language landscapes: The political possibilities of commercial print in the late colonial Indies
Authors: Rodgers Susan
Published: April 2013

An exploration of the exuberant publishing activities and circa 1930s texts by a largely unknown Sumatran vernacular writer, Sutan Pangurabaan Pane, father of the better-known authors Armijn and Sanusi Pane. Sutan P’s schoolbooks, how-to guides, and antiquarian volumes used Angkola Batak and Indonesian to promote a robust vision of Batak linguistic and cultural excellence. Flying under the radar of Dutch governmental censorship, Sutan P’s many works both mimicked and interrogated European textual forms, in sometimes anxious, ambiguous ways.
Indexing social space: A marketplace in Timor-Leste
Authors: Hicks David
Published: April 2013

This article shows how space and time indexed social identity in the market place of one of the larger ‘towns’ of Timor-Leste (or ‘East Timor’), Viqueque during the years 1966-1967 and examine their relevance for today’s Viqueque town. The space occupied by the weekly emporium offered a forum in which ethnicity, social hierarchy, gender, a pastime (cockfighting), and religious affiliation visually played themselves out and presented a physical replication of social distinctions that defined the character of the town and the sub-district it served.
Focusing on gender, ethnicity, social class, and social identity, and their economic implications, also enables us to gain insight into the process whereby post-colonial nations transform themselves after gaining independence. By comparing the use made of social space at two periods of time separated by four decades during which momentous developments took place in Timor-Leste we can see in sharper relief the kind of changes urban spaces experience when they are subject to colonial authority, pressures resulting from independence, and – ultimately – the tortuous process of nation-building.
What happened to Sayf al-Rijal?
Authors: Khan Sher Banu A.L.
Published: April 2013

Sayf al-Rijal is the least known Sheikh al-Islam, the highest religious appointee in the court of Aceh Dar al-Salam, in the seventeenth century. Yet, he replaced the renowned Sheikh Nur al-Din in 1643 and in turn was succeeded by another famous ulama Abd al- Ra’uf al-Sinkili in 1661. As of date, there is very little information on al-Rijal and his writings after he won the struggle against al-Raniri and was appointed as the Sheikh al-Islam by Sultanah SafiatuddinSyah in 1643. So, what happened to Sayf al-Rijal after his appointment? This article provides an explanation and throws some light on this mysterious figure.
Conserving the past, mobilizing the Indonesian future: Archaeological sites, regime change and heritage politics in Indonesia in the 1950s
Authors: Bloembergen Marieke , Eickhoff Martijn
Published: April 2013

The archaeological sites that the Indonesian Republic inherited from the past were not neutral. In this article we investigate the multilayered processes of signification connected to these sites – scattered all over Indonesia, and selected, uncovered, investigated, conserved and partly put on display by state archaeologists under Dutch and Japanese colonial regimes – and their meanings for the young Indonesian Republic in the 1950s. Taking a site-centred approach we focus on what we call ‘archaeological interventions’, and in particular on the reconstruction and conservation history of the ninth-century Śiwa temple at Prambanan (1910s-1950s), in the broader context of archaeological research (state supported as well as inter-Asian and internationally based) and colonial and postcolonial conservation politics. How did the Archaeological Services in successive colonial and post-colonial regimes in Indonesia contribute to the transmission of archaeological knowledge and to the skills and ethics of restoration politics over time? What was the effect of regime change on the development of archaeological sites into national sites? And how did post-independence national heritage politics relate to other, ongoing identifications with these sites – colonial/international, inter-Asian and local – that were stimulated by archaeological interventions taking place at these sites?
Balinese religion in search of recognition: From Agama Hindu Bali to Agama Hindu (1945-1965)
Authors: Picard Michel
Published: April 2013

This article describes the struggle of Balinese religious and intellectual leaders to obtain the recognition of their religion by the Indonesian Ministry of Religion, between 1945 and 1965. By focusing on the disagreement opposing Balinese reformers, not only over the strategy to be pursued but even more so as regards the very conception of their religion, it retraces through which processes and within which contexts the Balinese religion resulted in being construed, first as Agama Hindu Bali, and finally, after protracted debates, as Agama Hindu.
Book reviews
Authors: KITLV Redactie
Published: April 2013

Esther Captain en Guno Jones, Oorlogserfgoed overzee: De erfenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Aruba, Curaçao, Indonesië en Suriname (Fridus Stijlen) Cynthia Chou, The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia: The inalienable gift of territory (Timothy P. Barnard) Marshall Clark, Maskulinitas: Culture, gender and politics in Indonesia (Will Derks) Matthew Isaac Cohen, Performing otherness: Java and Bali on international stages, 1905-1952 (Suryadi) Marleen Dieleman, Juliette Koning and Peter Post (eds), Chinese Indonesians and regime change (Dewi Anggraeni) Wim van den Doel, Zo ver de wereld strekt: De geschiedenis van Nederland overzee vanaf 1800 (Hans Hägerdal) Michael Feener and Terenjit Sevea (eds), Islamic connections: Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia (Michael Laffan) R. Michael Feener, Muslim legal thought in Modern Indonesia (Stijn Cornelis van Huis) Zane Goebel, Language, migration, and identity: Neighbourhood talk in Indonesia (Sheri Lynn Gibbings) Lizzy van Leeuwen, Lost in mall: An ethnography of middle-class Jakarta in the 1990s (Andy Fuller) Alfred W. McCoy, Policing America’s empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the rise of the surveillance state (Florentino Rodao) Frans H. Peters, Vervlogen verwachtingen: De teloorgang van Nieuw-Guinea in 1961-1962 (Jaap Timmer) Christina Schwenkel, The American war in contemporary Vietnam: Transnational remembrance and representation (Hans Hägerdal) Yeoh Seng Guan, Loh Wei Leng, Khoo Salma Nasution and Neil Khor, Penang and its region: The story of an Asian entrepôt (David Kloos)
Myths and stereotypes about adat law: A reassessment of Van Vollenhoven in the light of current struggles over adat law in Indonesia
Authors: Benda-Beckmann Franz von , Benda-Beckmann Keebet von
Published: April 2013

Recent analyses of the ‘revitalisation of tradition’ have rekindled earlier discussions of the ‘creation of customary law’ in colonial states. For Indonesia, critics have deconstructed a ‘myth of adat’, arguing that adat law was an invention of the adat law scholar Van Vollenhoven and his followers. The assessment of that period also shapes interpretations of developments in Indonesia after 1998. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that in some respects the critique of colonial scholarship was misconceived, and that these misconceptions hamper a proper understanding of the current revitalisation of adat in Indonesia. Many interpretations of colonial legal science and practice have become anachronistic and stereotypical. We argue that most interpretations were and are largely based on a legalistic conception of ‘law’ and ‘customary law’, that authors selectively generalise interpretations from specific contexts, and that they do not take into account what such interpretations say over legal realities beyond these contexts. Lastly we think that the target of the critique is somewhat misconceived as it is directed at those scholars who were aware of the danger of legal ethnocentrism and criticised it, while not looking at those colonial scholars and courts, who grossly misinterpreted local normative systems in terms of Dutch legal categories. We argue that some assumptions and propositions of these earlier and contemporary critical deconstructions are in need of re-evaluation. Given its presence in current analyses, reconsidering Van Vollenhoven and his followers is more than a return to a history long gone by. We substantiate our propositions with a discussion of the history of the village commons, ulayat, in West Sumatra, which has always been a central illustration in all discussions of adat law.
Dakwah, competition for authority, and development
Authors: Meuleman Johan
Published: April 2013

Da`wah – usually spelt dakwah in Indonesian – has been an important aspect of Islam from its very birth. Since the late nineteenth century, however, as a result of political and social transformations it has taken new forms. In one form or others, da`wah has been practised by a large variety of Islamic movements and organizations. Although complementary to each other in certain cases, in others their relations have rather been characterized by competition for authority and power, not only between various da`wah organizations, but also, through these organizations, between regimes, categories of religious and social leaders, and social categories of Muslims. For this reason, da`wah has had important dimensions beyond the domain of religion proper. Moreover, da`wah has been connected to political and social causes such as the struggle against communism and Christianity – sometimes emulating them in certain respects – and community development. Quite a few da`wah initiatives, state-sponsored or non-governmental, have taken transnational scopes. Indonesian dakwah has shared most of the above features. This article, analyzing dakwah in Indonesia, confirms their existence and adds to their understanding. It substantiates theories on the objectification of Islam in modern societies: the spread of mass education has led to the fragmentation of religious understanding, which has stimulated a fierce competition for religious authority and the control of religious institutions and organizations. Just as in many other Muslim-majority countries, in Indonesia the state has played a prominent role in the development of mass education, the ensuing competition for religious authority, as well as the functionalization of religion. As was the case elsewhere, in Indonesia dakwah has had important dimensions beyond the religious domain. On the other hand, Indonesian dakwah has shown a number of particularities. In order to illustrate the combination of similarities with da`wah as it developed elsewhere and Indonesian particularities, the article pays particular attention to dakwah pembangunan – development da`wah – of the New Order period. It concludes that, although both the functionalization of Islam for the benefit of economic development and state involvement in religious beliefs and practices have been known in other countries, dakwah pembangunan was a unique, Indonesian phenomenon.
Kakawin Sutasoma and Kakawin Nāgara Krtāgama
Authors: Meij Dick van der
Published: April 2013

Review of: Kate O’Brien, Sutasoma: The ancient tale of a Buddha-Prince from 14th century Java by the poet Mpu Tantular. Mpu Tantular, Kakawin Sutasoma. Cok Sawitri, Sutasoma. I Ketut Riana, Kakawin Dēśa Warnnana uthawi Nāgara Krtāgama: Masa keemasan Majapahit.
Book reviews
Authors: KITLV Redactie
Published: April 2013

Jan J. Boersema, Beelden van Paaseiland: Over de duurzaamheid van een cultuur (H.J.M. Claessen) Henri Chambert-Loir (ed.), Sadur: Sejarah terjemahan di Indonesia dan Malaysia (E.P. Wieringa) Andrée Feillard and Rémy Madinier, The end of innocence? Indonesian Islam and the temptations of radicalism (Andy Fuller) Andrew Goss, The floracrats: State-sponsored science and the failure of Enlightenment in Indonesia (Andreas Weber) Rachel V. Harrison and Peter A. Jackson (eds), The ambiguous allure of the West: Traces of the colonial in Thailand (Luuk Knippenberg) Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and I Wayan Ardika (eds), Burials, texts and rituals: Ethnoarchaeological investigations in North Bali, Indonesia (Thomas Reuter) Carolyn Hughes, Dependent communities: Aid and politics in Cambodia and East Timor (Helene Van Klinken) J.A. de Moor, Generaal Spoor: Triomf en tragiek van een legercommandant (Harry A. Poeze) Peter J. Rimmer and Howard Dick, The city in Southeast Asia: Patterns, processes and policy (Sheri Lynn Gibbings) Knut M. Rio and Olaf H. Smedal (eds), Hierarchy: Persistence and transformation in social formations (Toon van Meijl) Henry Spiller, Erotic triangles: Sundanese dance and masculinity in West Java (Paul H. Mason) Rupert Stasch, Society of others: Kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place (Anton Ploeg) Susanto Zuhdi, Sejarah Buton yang terabaikan: Labu rope labu wana (Muhammad Fuad) Terutomo Ozawa, The rise of Asia: The ‘flying geese’ theory of tandem growth and regional agglomeration (Mark Beeson) Uka Tjandrasasmita, Arkeologi Islam Nusantara (Hélène Njoto)
Korte signaleringen
Authors: Poeze Harry A.
Published: April 2013

Maurits Ebben, Henk den Heijer en Joost Schokkenbroek (red.), Alle streken van het kompas; Maritieme geschiedenis in Nederland; Opstellen over maritieme geschiedenis in Nederland; Aangeboden aan Femme S. Gaastra bij zijn afscheid als hoogleraar zeegeschiedenis aan de Universiteit Leiden Bert Manders, De ontdekking van tin op het eiland Billiton Marga C. Kerkhoven, Eduard Julius Kerkhoven; 20 Indische brieven 1860-1863 verzameld uit de Hunderensche Courant Herman Stapelkamp, Oorlog in Atjeh; Het journaal van luitenant-ter-zee Henricus Nijgh, 1873-1874 Henk Mak van Dijk en Carl Nix, Wajang foxtrot; Indië in klank en beeld Jaap Hoogenboezem, H.J. Kruls; Een politieke generaal Frans C. Hazekamp. Het laatste grote gevecht in Indië; Tweeduizend guerrilla’s vallen Solo aan, 7-10 augustus 1949; Wat voorafging, strijd, politieke implicaties en het optreden van de commandotroepen, aangevuld met informatie uit Indonesië Jet Bussemaker, Dochter van een kampkind; Ervaringen van een staatssecretaris met de oorlog in Nederlands-Indië. Carel Erasmus, De Soldaat achterna; Op avontuur met Soldaat van oranje Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema Carel Erasmus en Floris Meinardi, Soldaat voor Ambon; De geheime missie van Soldaat van Oranje Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema (1917-2007) Tjaal Aeckerlin, Paradijsvogels en kroonduiven; Indische Nederlanders in voormalig Nieuw-Guinea Jan Sloot, Hoe God verscheen in Papoea; Nederlandse franciscanen in Papoea 1937-1987 Gerorge Harinck en Gerrit R. de Graaf (red.), Van zending naar oecumene; Vijftig jaar gereformeerde zending op Papua, 1956-2006 Emile Leushuis, Gids historische stadswandelingen Indonesië
The village as a ‘community of practice’ Constitution of village belonging through leisure sociality
Authors: Barlocco Fausto
Published: April 2013

This paper looks at the formation and display of a form of identification alternative to the national one, the belonging to the village, within the leisure practices of Kadazan villagers in Sabah, East Malaysia, both constituted by the regular meetings of peer groups and by festive events. The analysis of the paper applies the concept of ‘community of practice’ to the group of villagers who regularly invest most of their resources of free time, but also money, in interacting between themselves and in organising celebrations for various life-cycle events or for other occasions, and argues that a strong sense of belonging to the village is developed through this engagement. These practices are informed by a powerful and widely spread local ideology, positing the village as the central point of reference for its inhabitants’ sense of belonging and as the locus of a traditionalist ‘way of life’, based on cooperation, sharing and egalitarian principles, and rejecting the modern, multi-ethnic urban world from which the majority of the villagers derive their livelihood. This ideology defines the village as Kadazan and Christian, determining a rootedness in everyday life of ethnic identity as well as a general rejection of government-led nationalist propaganda and of its policies. This ideology is an essential part of the affirmation by the villagers of the primacy of the local and of direct involvement and participation over their sense of belonging to collective categories.
Three books on Papua
Authors: Van Klinken Gerry
Published: April 2013

Review of: Pieter Drooglever, An act of free choice; Decolonisation and the right to self-determination in West Papua. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2009, xviii + 854 pp. ISBN 9781851687152. Price: GBP 125.00 (hardback). Esther Heidbüchel, The West Papua conflict in Indonesia; Actors, issues and approaches. Wettenberg: Johannes Herrmann, 2007, iii + 223 pp. ISBN 9783937983103. Price: EUR 20.00 (paperback). Muridan S. Widjojo, Adriana Elisabeth, Amiruddin, Cahyo Pamungkas, and Rosita Dewi, Papua road map; Negotiating the past, improving the present and securing the future. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia, 2010, xxxiii + 211 pp. ISBN 9789794617403. Paperback.
How ordinary folk became involved in the Ambonese conflict : Understanding private opportunities during communal violence
Authors: Adam Jeroen
Published: April 2013

Traditional accounts of the eruption of communal conflict between Christians and Muslims on the Indonesian island of Ambon point to religiously framed struggles to access a patrimonial state and the emergence of specific threats and opportunities after the fall of Suharto in May 1998. Whilst this thesis will be upheld, it does not wholly account for why so many ‘ordinary folk’ with little chance of ever accessing the state bureaucracy became involved in this conflict, which lasted from 1999 until 2002. In order to better grasp the incentives of engaging in communal violence in Ambon, this article posits the explanation that people had exceptional opportunities to take over land when the first Christian-Muslim riots broke out in the town of Ambon. This was particularly the case in those instances where institutional arrangements to access land were already being contested before 1999. These private opportunities were not the reasons which instigated the initial riots in the town of Ambon but became a rationale during the conflict, hereby effecting the displacement of whole communities.
Book reviews
Authors: KITLV Redactie
Published: April 2013

Leonard Y. Andaya, Leaves of the same tree; Trade and ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka. (Henk Schulte Nordholt) Coeli Barry (ed.), The many ways of being Muslim; Fiction by Muslim Filipinos. (David Kloos) Leon Comber, Malaya
Affixes, Austronesian and iconicity in Malay
Authors: Benjamin Geoffrey
Published: April 2013

Explanations are offered for the puzzling differences between the forms and meanings of the Malay affixes and those of the broader Austronesian affixal system from which they derive. Oral-gesture iconicity is involved in the encoding of meanings that have both language-internal and social significance. The various verbal prefixes can be analysed both historically and iconically as different combinations of (1) a labial series (m , b , p ) indicating ‘source orientation’ with (2) r ‘iterative’ and (3) ( )N ‘process marker’. The full range of forms becomes apparent only if a sufficiently wide range of Malay and Malayic speech-varieties, both ancient and modern, are brought to bear on the discussion. The different meanings and functions associated with the various prefixes are motivated by the different semantic concerns engendered by the social and cultural circumstances peculiar to each of the speech-varieties.
Political opinion polling in post-authoritarian Indonesia: Catalyst or obstacle to democratic consolidation?
Authors: Mietzner Marcus
Published: April 2013

The introduction of democratic elections in Indonesia after the downfall of Soeharto’s authoritarian New Order regime in 1998 has triggered intensive scholarly debates about the competitiveness, credibility and representativeness of these ballots. The main focus of such discussions has understandably been on the primary actors in the elections – parties, individual candidates and voters. But this concentration on voting behaviour and electoral outcomes has shifted attention away from another development that is at least as significant in shaping Indonesia’s new democracy: that is, the remarkable proliferation of opinion pollsters and political consultants. The central role of opinion polls in post-Soeharto politics – and the diversity of views expressed in them – have challenged many of the conventional wisdoms held about the Indonesian electorate. The picture that emerges from the rapid spread of opinion polls in recent years, and from their profound impact on the political elite, points to an increasingly sophisticated (and diversified) electorate. The rise of opinion polls as key elements in electoral politics has been so fast and so consequential that Indonesia now faces the same dilemmas typically associated with the dominance of pollsters in consolidated Western democracies. This article discusses the implications of the rising importance of opinion polling for Indonesia’s consolidating democracy.
Stutterheim’s enigma: The mystery of his mapping of the Majapahit kraton at Trowulan in 1941
Authors: Gomperts Amrit , Haag Arnoud , Carey Peter
Published: April 2013

For over a century archaeologists have been trying to unravel the mystery of the location of the fourteenth-century kraton (palace) of the rulers of the Majapahit kingdom which held power in Java from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. It has been long known that the royal city and its palace was located at Trowulan about 50 kilometres southwest of Surabaya, the present-day capital of East Java. Today, unfortunately, all that remains of its former glory are isolated piles of broken bricks and an archaeologically mutilated landscape littered with craters dug by colonial-era asset strippers and treasure hunters. Knowledge of its exact position seemed to have vanished. In 1365 AD, however, the Javanese author Prapañca, had described the Majapahit capital and its royal palace in an extant Old Javanese text, called the Nāgarakrtāgama or Deśawarnana. Based upon this description, several scholars published reconstructions of the lay-out of the kraton of Majapahit, but none of them have been able to offer an identification of its exact location. In 1941, however, the then Head of the Netherlands Indies Archaeological Service (Oudheidkundige Dienst), W.F. Stutterheim, made a detailed reconstruction of the kraton of Majapahit, which the present authors are convinced correctly identified its precise location. The mystery is that Stutterheim himself did not reveal that location. This article sheds new light on the accuracy of Stutterheim’s reconstruction and his seemingly intentional obfuscation of the site identifications in Prapañca’s monumental work.
Abdullah Munsyi and the missionaries
Authors: Putten Jan van der
Published: April 2013

Father of Modern Malay Literature is an epithet often ascribed to Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi, a Malay author who lived in Melaka and Singapore during the first half of the nineteenth century. Two of his works, Hikayat Abdullah (Tale of Abdullah) and Kisah pelayaran Abdullah ke Kelantan (Account of Abdullah’s voyage to Kelantan) are the stories most often ingled out as those that form the bridge between traditional and modern Malay writing. Characteristics of these writings viewed by critics as modern elements are the foregrounding of the authorial self through the use of the first-person pronoun, realistic descriptions of historical events and persons, and harsh criticism of the culture, socio-political structure, and practices of the Malay community (Milner 1995).
The megalithic complex of highland Jambi: An archaeological perspective
Authors: Bonatz Dominik , Neidel John David , Tjoa-Bonatz Mai Lin
Published: April 2013

The highlands of Sumatra remain one of the most neglected regions of insular Southeast Asia in terms of history and archaeology. No comprehensive research program incorporating both a survey and excavations within a defined geographical or environmental zone has been carried out there since Van der Hoop (1932) conducted his study of the megaliths on the Pasemah plateau in the 1930s. Meanwhile, Van der Hoop’s investigations and several other archaeological research activities at places such as northwest Lampung (McKinnon 1993), Pasemah (Sukendar and Sukidjo 1983-84; Caldwell 1997; Kusumawati and Sukendar 2000), Kerinci (Laporan 1995a, 1996a), and the Minangkabau heartland (Miksic 1986, 1987, 2004) have placed special emphasis on the megalithic remains. As a result, the megaliths are by far the bestknown archaeological attraction of the Sumatran highlands.
Book Reviews
Authors: KITLV Redactie
Published: April 2013

Michael Williams; Deforesting the earth; From prehistory to global crisis (Greg Bankoff)

Alexander Adelaar, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (eds); The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar (René van den Berg)

Wim Ravesteijn, Jan Kop (eds); Bouwen in de archipel; Burgerlijke Openbare Werken in Nederlands-Indië en Indonesië 1800-2000 (Freek Colombijn)

Susan Rodgers; Print, poetics, and politics; A Sumatran epic in the colonial Indies and New Order Indonesia (Bernhard Dahm)

Robert A. Scebold; Central Tagbanwa; a Philippine language on the brink of extinction; Sociolinguistics, grammar, and lexicon (Aone van Engelenhoven)

Adrian Vickers; Journeys of desire; A study of the Balinese text Malat (Amrit Gomperts)

B.J. Terwiel; Thailand’s political history; From the fall of Ayutthaya to recent times (Hans Hägerdal)

Robert van Niel; Java’s Northeast Coast 1740-1840; A study in
colonial encroachment and dominance (Mason C. Hoadley)

Terence H. Hull (ed.); People, population, and policy in Indonesia (Santo Koesoebjono

W.L. Korthals Altes; Tussen cultures en kredieten; Een institutionele geschiedenis van de Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank en Nationale Handelsbank, 1863-1964 (Koh Keng Weh)

William van der Heide; Malaysian cinema, Asian film; Border crossings and national cultures (Benjamin McKay)

Angela Romano; Politics and the press in Indonesia; Understanding an evolving political culture (Soe Tjen Marching)

Simon Harrison; Fracturing resemblances; Identity and mimetic conflict in Melanesia and the West (Toon van Meijl)

Daniel Fitzpatrick; Land claims in East Timor (Johanna van Reenen)

Susi Moeimam, Hein Steinhauer; Nederlands-Indonesisch Woordenboek (Stuart Robson)

Terance W. Bigalke; Tana Toraja: a social history of an Indonesian people (Dik Roth)

K. Alexander Adelaar (with the assistance of Pak Vitus Kaslem); Salako or Badameà; Sketch grammar, texts and lexicon of a Kanayatn dialect in West Borneo (Hein Steinhauer)

John Bowden, Nikolaus Himmelmann (eds); Papers in Austronesian subgrouping and dialectology (Hein Steinhauer)

Sebastiaan Pompe; The Indonesian Supreme Court; A study of institutional collapse (Bryan S. Turner)

Gerd R. Zimmermann; Indonesien; Eine geographische Landeskunde (Robert Wessing)

REVIEW ESSAY
Dick van der Meij; Latest editions of Indonesian classical texts
A. Teeuw, R. Dumas, Muhammad Haji Salleh, R. Tol, M.J. van Yperen (eds); A merry senhor in the Malay world; Four texts of the Syair Sinyor Kosta
Julian Millie; Bidasari; Jewel of Malay Muslim culture.
A. Teeuw, S.O. Robson (eds); Bhomāntaka; The death of Bhoma
J. Noorduyn, A. Teeuw; Three Old Sundanese poems

In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI), no. 162 (2006), no: 2/3, Leiden
The birth of the abangan
Authors: Ricklefs M.C.
Published: April 2013

One of the great topics in the study of Javanese society is the distinction among santri, abangan and priyayi that was posited by Clifford Geertz in his book The religion of Java (1964). For many western observers at the time this was a momentous insight into an exotic culture. Although several Dutch and Indonesian authorities objected to some aspects of the Geertz depiction, it was immensely influential. Today, more than four decades after the publication and five decades after the fieldwork, the terms santri, abangan and priyayi frequently appear in the literature. From the historian’s point of view, a flaw lurks in the Geertz analysis and in that of many of his critics. That is, the analysis and its subsequent use and discussion by others has remained insufficiently historical. Javanese society has been as dynamic as any other. As I hope to show in this article, the distinction that Geertz drew between the two categories of religious identity in his trichotomy – santri and abangan – were not wrong, but were historically contingent.
The semiotics of violence: Ninja, sorcerers, and state terror in post-Soeharto Indonesia
Authors: Retsikas Konstantinos
Published: April 2013

In July 1998, two months after President Soeharto resigned from power, several reports appeared in Indonesian and international media of a series of killings taking place in Java. The killings initially involved the murders of people suspected of practising black magic (dukun santet). Many of the alleged sorcerers and victims were kyai, venerated scholar/teachers of Islam who head boarding schools (pesantren). The bloodshed, entailing the killing of several hundred people over a period of five months, from July to November 1998, has come to be known as the ‘ninja killings’, named after the fabled Japanese martial arts experts with supernatural powers. The reason for this name is that the perpetrators of the killings, rumour had it, were dressed in black-clad ninja fashion and possessed mystical powers similar to their Japanese counterparts.
The Tuhfat al-Rāghibīn: The work of Abdul Samad al-Palimbani or of Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari?
Authors: Hasan Noorhaidi
Published: April 2013

The Indonesian archipelago has an abundance of classical literature on Islamic knowledge. At the bottom of the pile there is an anonymous Malay treatise written in Jawi script whose authorship has long been debated. It is the Tuhfat al-Rāghibīn fī Bayān Ḥaqīqat Īmān al-Mu’minīn wa Mā Yufsiduhu fī Riddat al-Murtaddīn (The Gift Addressed to Those Desirous of the Exposition of the Essence of the Faith of the Believers and of That Which Corrupts It, with Respect to the Apostasy of the Apostates), hereafter cited as the Tuhfat al-Rāghibīn.
Looking for Adê: A contribution to Timorese historiography
Authors: McWilliam Andrew
Published: April 2013

In the centuries-old and turbulent history of Portuguese colonialism in East Timor, place names such as Lifao, Mena, Manatuto, Kupang and Dili (after 1769) are redolent of the early record of contact and trading relationships that fuelled the colonial desire for sandalwood, slaves and Christian souls in equal measure. Another name of similar antiquity and significance, also widely reported in the collective Portuguese archive, is the trading entrepôt of Adê (sometimes written as Adem). However, whereas most of these former ports of Portuguese engagement have retained their emplaced identity both within the historical record and as sites of contemporary settlement, the significance of Adê has faded with time. It rarely features in the contemporary Portuguese literature, and much uncertainty now surrounds its physical location beyond a general idea that it lay somewhere along the north coast of the island east of the current capital of Dili. In this brief communication I attempt to shed some light on the whereabouts of this curious and otherwise obscure fragmenta of Timorese historiography.
The Syair of Minye Tujuh
Authors: Molen Willem van der
Published: April 2013

The allegedly satisfactory state of affairs suggested by the above quotation relates to one of the most intriguing inscriptions of the Indonesian archipelago, the Malay poem on one of the two tombstones (nisan) of a princess in Minye Tujuh, Aceh. This inscription, dated 781 AH (1380 AD), is written not in the usual Arabic script but in so-called Old Sumatran characters. The particular style which caught the attention of the Dutch epigrapher J.G. de Casparis and which made the inscription so difficult to read refers to the influence of the Arabic script on these old characters. Looking for an explanation of this influence, De Casparis (1975:58-9) suggests that it may have been a matter of training: the Arabic script must have been the most familiar type of script for the clerk charged with the reproduction of the text in stone in old characters.