Pada abad 19, Betawi-Weltevreden dipromosikan dengan sebutan: Queen of the East (Ratu dari Timur). Saat itu Betawi mengalami transfusi yang cukup besar dari para pendatang Eropa. Serdadu dan pedagang dari abad 19 ini jauh berbeda dari rekan-rekan mereka di abad 17. Mereka lebih santun dan terhormat ketimbang serdadu dan petani yang didatangkan JP Coen dua abad sebelumnya. Di sekitar Weltevreden…
This book is a significant study of Indonesia's achievement of independence from the Netherlands immediately following World War II. It places the military and diplomatic struggle between the Indonesians and the Dutch within the international context of the period, so that the conflicting pressures on the two parties as they sought an acceptable, realistic, and workable agreement are made much …
Buku ini berisi tentang latar belakang pelaku-pelaku kunci dalam tragedi sejarah 1965 yang terlibat dalam gerakan 30 September. Selain Letkol. Untung, masih ada sosok Sjam Kamaruzzaman yang misterius. Kemudian Lettu. Doel Arief, yang juga tidak jelas nasibnya. Dan tentu saja Aidit, yang ditembak mati sesaat setelah tertangkap di Boyolali oleh pasukan Kolonel Yasir Hadibroto.
Burma remains a land in deep crisis. The popular uprising of 1988 swept away 26 years of military rule under General Ne Win in name only. The National League for Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide victory in the 1990 election. But, as this book relates, the military remained in control and the future of Burma looks more problematic than ever. With unparalleled command of largely inac…
This book tells the history of America's experience in the Middle East over the past sixty years. This book contains the stories of ten presidents and their administrations and their ways of dealing with the region, their leaders, and their ideas for solving these problems.
Do you know in Brunei we used to have a festival called 'Berjanawari'? Or that the Brunei word for great-great-great grandparents is the same as the action describing shaking your head? Or that Brunei's largest export used to be derived from mangrove trees? Or that 'Hua Hui' a gambling game was widely played in Brunei? Or the many facts that you have never known about Brunei? This is the second…
Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh themselves? Does the Swiss 'Sonderfall' (special case) provide lessons ot…
Buku ini hadir sebagai sumber data dan informasi penting yang valid tentang Papua dalam segala keunggulannya maupun permasalahannya. Tujuan yang sangat penting serta mendasar dari buku ini adalah untuk memberi masukan kepada pemerintah (Pusat maupun Daerah), segenap stakeholders dan orang Papua agar semua pihak dapat ikut membantu dalam mencari solusi komprehensif yang tepat dan benar bagi peny…
When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of Pakistan and momentarily suggested he thought the Taliban was a rock-and-roll band. But he relied upon a group called the Vulcans—an inner circle of advisers with a long, shared experience in government, dating back to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and first Bush adminis…