Aneka rempah akrab dengan kehidupan keluarga Indonesia. Aneka menu masakan, kue, dan minuman dengan sentuhan rempah dapat dinikmati oleh keluarga untuk menjaga kesehatan, namun, seringkali anak-anak dan anggota keluarga lainnya belum mengenal rempah-rempah tersebut, padahal rempah merupakan kekayaan alam Indonesia. Nah, melalui buku ini dikenalkan aneka rempah yang dekat dengan keseharian anak.…
Revolutionary Worlds looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. With seventeen contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely differing perspectives. The authors explain how Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Eurasian civilians, fighters, farmers and officials experienced and shaped the often volatile per…
In Empire's Violent End, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, and other areas during the wars of decolonization. In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherl…
The struggle for independence in Indonesia between 1945 and 1949 has literally and figuratively left its mark. Through images and text the authors take the reader along on their quest through people, objects and places in Indonesia and the Netherlands. This bilingual Indonesian/Dutch book focuses on the personal experiences of civilians and soldiers who experienced the conflict at close quarter…
"Islam exists in global history with its richly variegated cultural and social realities. When these specific cultural contexts are marginalized, Islam is reduced to an ahistorical religion without the ability to contribute to humanity. This limited understanding of Islam has been a contributing factor in many of the violent conflicts in the present day. Reflecting on Islam in Indonesia, the wo…
Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volume Senshi Sōsho (War History Series). The present book completes the trilogy of English translations of the sections in the Senshi Sōsho series on the Japanese operations against the former Dutch East I…
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities. The authors consider the mechanisms used by local organisations and the constraints and opportunities they face, exploring what the knowledg…
Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from eight countries, contains thirteen essays, representing a broad range of approaches to the study of Southeast Asia with water as the central theme. As it was exposed to the se…
Persedian bahan bakar fosil dunia semakin hari semakin menipis, sementara permintaan dan kebutuhan masyarakat akan bahan bakar terus meningkat. Hal ini mengakibatkan harga bahan bakar fosil semakin tidak terjangkau, yang pada akhirnya dapat berujung pada krisis energi global. Di Indonesia, subsidi BBM sudah menjadi momok bagi APBN setiap tahunnya. Oleh sebab itu, dibutuhkan energi alternatif un…
Pada tahun 1930-an dunia mengalami apa yang disebut zaman malaise, krisis ekonomi. AKan tetapi ketika itu pula pergerakan politik kebangsaan yang radikal menaikkan aktivitasnya. Ketika itu pulalah de Jonge, Gubernur Jenderal, yang konservatif, bukan saja mengadakan penghematan anggaran belanja Hindia Belanda, tetapi juga-dan lebih penting-melakukan pengekangan pergerakan kebangsaan. Di zaman ma…