This book contains a collection of historical readings featuring the voices of regents, reformers, and revolutionary figures in Indonesia during the colonial period from 1899 to 1949. Edited, translated, and annotated by Greta O. Wilson, this work compiles important documents in Dutch and Indonesian to provide a direct picture of the socio-political dynamics, resistance, and modernization in In…
Beginning in the 1830's, these documents first show the colonial Dutch debating among themselves the fate of their "East Indian" subjects, and then gathering assurance with the growth of Indonesians debating the shape of their nationalist sentiment for the future nation. In this sense Indonesia : Selected Documents presents a century - long drama of ideas , colored by the personalities and mov…