A History of Modern Indonesia, Adrian Vickers | Although Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world, its history is still relatively unfamiliar and understudied. Adrian Vickers takes the reader on a journey across the social and political landscape of modern Indonesia, starting with the country’s origins under the Dutch in the early twentieth century, and the subsequent anti-colonial revolution which led to independence in1949. Thereafter the spotlight is on the1950s, a crucial period in the formation of Indonesia as a new nation, which was followed by the Sukarno years, and the anti-Communist massacres of the1960s when General Suharto took over as president.
The concluding chapters chart the fall of Suharto’s New Order after thirty-two years in power, and the subsequent political and religious turmoil which culminated in the Bali bombings in 2002. Drawing on insights from literature, art and anthropology, Vickers portrays a complex and resilient people struggling out of a troubled past. ADRIAN VICKERSis Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Wollongong. He is author of the acclaimedBali: a Paradise Created (1989), as well as many other scholarly and popular works on Indonesia.
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