The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series is written for the pre-university student or general reader. The volume on Indonesia tracks the vast country's multifaceted history from pre-historic times (the fossilised Java Man lived over a million years ago) through its early and colonial periods to the 1945 proclamation of independence, the Sukarno Era (1945-67), the Soeharto Era (1966-98) and then Indonesia after Soeharto. With timeline, glossary, biographical summaries, bibliographic essay and index.