Renowned Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer offers an essay recounting his ten year incarceration on the prison island of Buru.

Furnishes an investigation into CIA involvement in the 1965 massacre of Indonesia's progressive movement. Written by Deirdre Griswold.

Details Suharto's New Order regime and the bloody purge of the PKI on Java and Bali.

Details the battles between the Portuguese at Melaka from the sultans of Johore. Also details the Roman Catholicism of the Dutch colonists.

Details Hatta's resignation and Sukarno's growing authoritarianism. Describes the Revolutionary Government of the Indonesian Republic.

Describes the Japanese support of nationalist movements in Indonesia as a means of stunting allied reoccupation.

Describes Sukarno's plan for a secular Indonesia including the Netherlands Indies, Portuguese Timor, British Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula.

Offers an analysis of the revenues and debt under the Suharto regime and its system of "bureaucratic capitalism."

Describes the appeal of Sukarno's unique blend of Javanese unification, Islam, and Marxism. Details his trials and detention under the Dutch.

Describes the break in diplomatic relations between Jakarta and the Hague, and PKI union workers' seizure of British plantations.

Describes Sukarno's land reform measures and political attempts to unify the splintered interests of the country.

Article by George Aditjondro explores the lingering impact of Japanese and Dutch colonial influence on Indonesia.