This is the story of Molly Bondan (1912–1990), a remarkable Australian who spent more than half of her life in Indonesia. With her Indonesian husband, who had been a political prisoner of the colonial Dutch, she went to Yogyakarta during the war for Indonesia's Independence. Molly worked for the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs in Jakarta for many years. From 1951 to 1965 she wrot…
Indonesia Assessment 1995 contains two main sections: one overviewing current Indonesian economic and political conditions, and one examining economic and social developments in Eastern Indonesia. This is the vast region of 25 million people, lying between Java, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia. The book provides not only an up-do-date overview of Indonesia in 1995, but also one of the f…