Insight Guides Bali & Lombok Let us guide you on every step of your travels... Comprehensive travel guide packed with inspirational photography and fascinating cultural insights, now with free eBook. From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this guide to Bali and Lombok is all you need to plan your perfect trip, with ......
How Java's eccentric saints are challenging fundamentalist Islam in mode
Bandit Saints of Java is a work of nonfiction that delves deep under the surface of modern Indonesia, exploring personalities and stories in the wacky world of local pilgrimage. It paints an astonishing portrait of Islam as it is practised today - largely invisible to journalists, scholars and tourists - by many of the 130 million people of Java.
How to survive and thrive in the new global reality
The world has changed. Asia and the West have converged, and the old borders, rules and ways of working no longer apply. The key skill of the 21st century will be the ability to interact effectively across the Asia/West intersection and the new blended world.
Thomas Hodges of the East India Company seizes a chance at glory by being the first to venture ashore at the pepper port of Banten in Java, Indonesia, in 1608. Would he unlock the mysterious riches of Java for the English, or die forgotten with a Javanese kris or Portuguese poignard between his ribs?
Stories of Love, Lust and Loss from Bali. Island Secrets is a collection of stories of lives fraught with scandal, conflict, heartache and despair. A western wife of a Balinese man enjoys a happy marriage and all the trappings of island wealth but the arrival of a man from home throws her life into turmoil as she surrenders to his ......
On a hot August afternoon in 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia (the former name of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital) to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would remain there for five turbulent years. Drawing on both British and Javanese archival sources, this entertaining and highly ......
Twilight in Kuta explores love, loss and infidelity in present-day Indonesia from a number of perspectives, their stories intertwine throughout the book, and the various narrators offer different interpretations of the events that unfold.
Insight Guides Indonesia will guide you on every step of your travels. This comprehensive travel guide packed with inspirational photography and fascinating cultural insights and now includes a free eBook. From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this guide to Indonesia is all you need to plan your perfect trip.
Cigarette Girl is more than just a love story and the soul-searching journey of three brothers. Set in Java the story takes its readers through a century of Indonesian history, from the Dutch colonial era to the Japanese occupation, the struggle for independence and the rarely discussed bloody coup of 1965.
Based on the assumption that consolidating Indonesia's democratic reforms and enhancing national stability are in the US interest, this report examines how best to avert future conflict in Papua by supporting greater self-government and the development of natural resources.
Taiwan, Its Neighbors, and the Asian Financial Crisis
In July 1997, the promise of the ! DegreesAsian economic miracle!+/- and the ! DegreesPacific century!+/- devolved into economic chaos and the onset of what has become known as the Asian financial crisis.
Responding to the critical need of policymakers, and practitioners for current research on Indonesia, this text focuses on four areas: the economy; religion and ethnicitiy; civil society; and the military. A concluding chapter covers the International Monetary Fund and US policy towards Indonesia.
