Indonesia

This Indonesian collection whets your appetite with recipes from basic dips and sauces to hearty meals and satisfying desserts. Try your hand at serving up Chicken with Tomato Sambal, Creamy Duck Curry and Grilled Fish in Banana Leaf. Other satisfying choices include the aromatic Spiced Chicken Stew with Potatoes and Beef Braised in Coconut Milk.

Amba is a modern take on the story of Amba and Bhisma from the Mahabharata, set against the backdrop of the bloody events of 1965 and the Buru penal colony. In Bahasa Indonesia.

The Saga of Siti Mariah is a window into the workings of the Cultuurstelsel or "Forced Cultivation" system imposed in the Dutch East Indies from 1830 until 1870. In this book's pages, the lives of Dutch sugar barons, indigenous elite, European officials, and Chinese middlemen who were enriched under the system intersect with those of Javanese peasants who suffered under its yoke and the Javanese women who were bedded by the Dutch masters and administrators, fit only to be concubines, never wives. Published in serial form in Malay lingua franca between 1910 and 1912, the work forms part of sastra pra-Indonesia, or pre-Indonesian literature-literature written in Malay before the nationalist term "Indonesian" began to be applied to the Malay language texts then being produced in the archipelago.

The Rose of Cikembang was part of an already remarkable body of modern mass literature, now largely forgotten, which had been created over the previous thirty or so years mainly by Indonesians of Chinese descent in a language that had long been known as Low Malay, or simply Malay. The Rose of Cikembang was inspired by William Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream". Kwee adapted the story to reflect Indonesian circumstances, but also used the book to open discussion on the issue of the Nyai, a concubine often kept by young unmarried men. The novel has been adapted for a play and even for a screenplay.

Java in the period covered by Kayam's fictional saga was a rural society somewhat relieved by mostly minor urban centers. It was a time of population increase and of diminishing holdings, when the immemorial difficulties of the peasantry were growing more acute than usual. Nevertheless, modern ways and ideas were seeping into the countryside, offering prospects of upward social mobility and a more secure life. The key was education: the one bright portal of hope for the wretched of Java. A central focus of the novel Para Priyayi, translated here as Javanese Gentry, is the indispensability of literacy to any peasant villager seeking to escape the miseries of his class and achieve familial betterment by rising into the higher of the colonial Java's essentially two-tier society. That higher, literate tier was the priyayi, a functionary-gentry shading in its upper levels into the traditional aristocracy and acting in most facets of life as an intermediary and cultural filter between the peasantry and the Dutch.

Ikal is a student at Muhammadiyah Elementary, on the Indonesian island of Belitong, where graduating from sixth grade is considered a major achievement. His school is under constant threat of closure. In fact, Ikal and his friends - a group called The Rainbow Troops - face threats from every angle: pessimistic, corrupt government officials; greedy corporations hardly distinguishable from the colonialism they've replaced; deepening poverty and crumbling infrastructure; and their own faltering self-confidence. But in the form of two extraordinary teachers, they also have hope, and Ikal's education is an uplifting one, in and out of the classroom. This is classic story-telling: an engrossing depiction of a world not often encountered, bursting with charm and verve.

This richly illustrated presentation of traditional Indonesian woven textiles shows how these can become appropriate and beautiful contributors to contemporary homes and living spaces of many kinds. With glossary, sourcing directory, bibliography and index.

Batam's destiny has been shaped by its strategic location. Whose hinterland is it? This book takes a bold look at how political influences, both internal and external, have affected Batam's development. It challenges the view that economic development can be kept separate from the national political and bureaucratic forces that underpin its institutional basis.

Bacharuddin Jusof Habibie, President of Indonesia 1998-1999 has written this very personal account of his life with his late wife Dr Hj Hasri Ainun (1937-2010) as a tribute to her and celebration of their life together. He discusses his training and professional career as an engineer in Germany and her training and life as a medical doctor as well as their return to Indonesia in public life. Details are given of Dr Ainun's 1997 medical diagnosis and their subsequent efforts to maintain a normal life together despite many changes and demands. Habibie's grief and religious faith and his love for his wife dominates much of the account of the post-1999 period which ended with her May 2010 death in Germany and subsequent burial in Jakarta. Any author's profits will go to service organisations.

Musical Worlds in Yogyakarta is an ethnographic account of a vibrant Indonesian city during the turbulent early post-Soeharto years. It examines musical performance in public contexts ranging from the street and neighbourhood through to commercial venues and state environments such as Yogyakarta's regional parliament, its military institutions, universities and the Sultans palace. It focuses on the musical tastes and practices of street workers, artists, students and others. From street-corner jam sessions to large-scale concerts, a range of genres emerge that cohere around notions of campursari (mixed essences) and jalanan (of the street). Musical worlds addresses themes of social identity and power, counterpoising Pierre Bourdieu's theories on class, gender and nation with the authors alternative perspectives of inter-group social capital, physicality and grounded cosmopolitanism. The author argues that Yogyakarta is exemplary of how everyday people make use of music to negotiate issues of power and at the same time promote peace and intergroup appreciation in culturally diverse inner-city settings.

A fast-paced, intensely emotional drama of Indonesian life high and low, set against the tumultuous backdrop of thereformasi era, after the fall of Suharto in 1999. This is the story of Sito, a brilliantly gifted artist who leaves his home in a poor village in Central Java while still in his teens, to make his name and his fortune in the royal city of Jogjakarta. Vatikiotis tells a suspenseful tale that weaves together a fascinating inside view of the art boom in Indonesia and the nation's religious and political ferment in the twenty-first century, haunted by ghosts of the nation's bloody past.

In 1991, the Indonesian military opened fire on East Timorese protestors in Dili. In Jakarta a cover-up began immediately. The Indonesian mass media was cautioned to tow the official line. Seno Gumira Ajidarma, editor of Jakarta Jakarta at the time, refused to do so and was released from his position. Unable to let his fellow Indonesians know about the facts of this "incident," Seno transformed documentary evidence into semi-fictional form and published it as novel. This novel is a triptych made up of three series of panels.

A trilogy of novels set in tumultuous days of the mid 1960s, The Dancer describes a village community struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world. It also provides readers with a ground-level view of the political turmoil leading up to and following the abortive Communist coup.

This beautifully illustrated and substantial volume aims to make Batuan paintings accessible to viewers from outside Bali. It does this by explaining some of the cultural codes that the paintings contain, as well as narratives that link them to the rich Balinese and Southeast Asian traditions. It also demonstrates how these paintings communicate their meanings beyond Batuan's cultural life, directly through their formal elements of line, shape and tone. Complete with 327 full colour reproductions, 24 illustrations, maps and diagrams.

This vividly illustrated tale for small children tells of a young orangutan who steals bananas from his poor neighbour. He has to make reparatin and then receives a nice rewards so learns that penitence and virtue are a happy way out of wrongdoing.

Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java draws on a formidable body of sources to situate the Javanese religious experience from the 1930s to the present day in its local political, social, cultural and religious settings. The concluding part of the author's monumental three-volume series assessing more than six centuries of the on-going Islamisation of Javanese, the study has considerable relevance for much wider contexts. Beliefs, or disbeliefs, about the supernatural are important in all societies, and the final section of the book, which considers the significance of Java's religious history in global contexts, shows how it exemplifies a profound contest of values in the universal human search for a better life.

Here are fun drawings and puzzles to help new learners acquire a vocabulary of 1500 Indonesian words needd in daily life (an answer key is provided).

As part of the Ring of Fire, Indonesia is home to some of the world's most active volcanoes and Volcanoes of Indonesia pays tribute to these mighty forces that have dramatically determined the landscape of Indonesia. Combining the poignant images of Carl-Bernd Kaehlig with the prose and poems of Andrew Wight and Chris Smith, this beautiful photo album showcases the many faces and moods of the volcanoes as well as the life that revolves around them. This awe-inspiring album will strike a chord in all who respond to the allure of the mystical and the sublime.

A decade of (intermittent) field work underpins this study of the perceptions, dynamics and functioning of state in the borderlands of West Kalimantan with Sarawak. Among the many dimensions discussed are: the central governments and decentralising trends; the colonial legacy; insurgency and counter-insurgency; timber issues; cross-border patronage and exploitation issues; border controls; ethnic sentiments; and zones of autonomy. With black-and-white photographs, timeline, glossary, bibliography, extensive annotations and index.

Based on doctoral field studies 2002-2011, this is an in-depth exploration of Dayak policies and roles in West Kalimantan from 1945. It is shown how the largely submerged Dayak self-identity increased 1945-50 at the end of the Dutch administration. Post-Independence, the marginalisation trends continued at least as far as the official administration during the New Order was involved. Ethnic conflicts in the area are noted including the considerable Dayak/Madurese violence of 1997 and 1999. Changes in the Reformasi post-Suharto era (1998-2005) are shown to had led to general decentralization and a reduction of Dayak political marginalisation although economic and socio-religious xxx are seen to remain. With glossary, bibliography and index.