Another group of ethnic minorities struggling for recognition in the 1980s were the peoples of…
Situated in the Special Region of Aceh the northernmost provincial-level unit of Sumatra, the more…
Religion in Indonesia was a complex and volatile issue in the early 1990s, one not…
The transition from Sukarno's Guided Democracy to Suharto's New Order reflected a realignment of the…
Although Indonesia was finally independent and (with the exceptions of Dutch-ruled West New Guinea and…
Unlike Burma and the Philippines, Indonesia was not granted formal independence by the Japanese in…
The Japanese occupied the archipelago in order, like their Portuguese and Dutch predecessors, to secure…
National consciousness emerged gradually in the archipelago during the first decades of the twentieth century,…
Nineteenth-century Indonesia experienced not only the replacement of company rule by Dutch government rule but…
The Portuguese were the first Europeans to come in significant numbers to the archipelago. The…
The Indian Ocean continued to serve as both a commercial and a cultural link between…
Beginning in the 1890s, paleontologists discovered fossil remains of creatures on the island of Java…
