David Johnson explores the events behind the coup attempt of the GESTAPU movement. Suggests CIA involvement in the extermination of the PKI.

Details the exploitation of rubber plantations and population increases in Batavia. Describes the melding of culture that occurred.

Provides an overview of Dutch expansionist activity in the outer islands and describes the Padri War and other conflicts.

Details Dutch commercial successes from Batavia and describes Java's political instability. Also profiles the Sultan Agung.

Details the resistance of Javanese aristocracy to the Dutch rule, and describes Diponegoro's revolt of 1825.

Details the 1602 merging of companies under the Dutch parliament, and its directors establishment of the spice trade in Indonesia.

Details the undoing of the Dutch VOC in the 18th century and the British occupation of Java.