Saya mulia menghadapi tekanan dan penghinaan yang luar biasa ketika saya mulai melakukan koreksi-koreksi terhadap pemerintahan Soeharto, yang kemudian banyak mendasari penulisan memoar ini. Sehingga buku ini saya beri judul: Memoar M. Jasin, Saya Tidak Pernah Minta Ampun Kepada Soeharto. Koreksi-koreksi tersebut menyangkut truk untuk Pemilu 1971, monopoli cengkeh, soal Tapos Ciomas, Petisi 50, …
An examination of the Chinese emigrant experience, examining the history of Chinese emigration, its effects on emigrants and host nations alike and the culture and achievements of Chinese who have settled abroad. The Chinese diaspora, the most widespread varied and prolonged series of emigrations by one nation, began in the 1500s and continues to this day. This study covers the emigration from …
According to Time magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri. Long locked in a deadly embrace with its nuclear neighbor Indi…
Karni Ilyas, Lahir untuk Berita adalah buku yang memotret 40 tahun perjalanan karier Karni Ilyas sebagai wartawan. Mulai dari reporter di harian Suara Karya (1972-1978) hingga menjadi Direktur/Pemimpin Redaksi tvOne sejak 2008.
This book attempts an assessment of the place of Lenin in history and of the revolution which was his life's work. This book contains The Bolshevik Party itself, an account of the features which differentiate it from other socialist parties, the agrarian policy of this party in a country where peasants formed 80% of the population, the political philosophy which inspired the revolution and the …
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In "The Proud Tower", Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy, the Anarchists of Europe and America, Germany and its sel…
Bagi beberapa prajurit,perang adalah kehidupan ataupun sumber penghidupan. Namun bagi Westerling,perang adalah petualangan yang menyenangkan. Prahara di Paris van Java yang dilakukan Raymond Westerling meninggalkan luka dalam sejarah Indonesia. Indonesia baru saja mendapat pengakuan de jure dari Belanda. Indonesia juga dihadapkan pada bentuk negara federasi berupa Republik Indonesia Serikat.…
Presenting a narrative history of the world over the last 1000 years, this book shows how it might be regarded by a remote future age. The traditional Europe-centred world image is questioned. Contents: 1. The springs of initiative 2. The springs uncoiled 3. The atlantic crisis 4. The twist of initiative 5. The pacific challenge.
Yang dilakukan oleh Dr. Baskara T. Wardaya dalam buku ini adalah memperlihatkan konteks terbentuknya berbagai kebijakan Amerika Serikat terhadap Indonesia, sambil dengan bagus menggambarkan tekanan-tekanan dalam negeri yang dialami para pejabat urusan luar negeri Amerika. Ditunjukkan pula berbagai pergumulan internal yang dalam tiap-tiap pemerintahan presiden A. S. kebijakan-kebijakan yang diha…
At a time when sea navigation depended more on the skill and courage of sailors than on technology, men were nonetheless able to build maritime regional empires that stretched from Indochina to the Indonesian Archipelago. This book, which draws on a huge body of archaeological and documentary research, provides a much-needed overview of the history of the Malay Peninsula and insular Southeast A…