INDONESIAN MAGAZINES
MKB - occasional bulletin of Media Kerja Budaya, on issues like censorship, television, and literature.
Available: Jaringan Kerja Budaya, PO Box 6438 JATGD, Jakarta 13064, Indonesia, email jkb@server.indo.net. This group also actively co-publishes small books with other organisations.
Berita Bumi and Kabar Bumi - occasional bulletins of Konphalindo (Konsorsium Nasional Kelestarian Hutan dan Alam Indonesia), on issues of sustainable and environmentally responsible development. The group has researched a variety of such issues around Indonesia.
Available: Ruddy Gustave, email konphal@rad.net.id.

DEHUMANISASI ANAK MARJINAL, BERBAGAI PENGALAMAN PEMBERDAYAAN
Published by Akatiga and Gugus Analisis
Eleven authors describe the life of two categories of disadvantaged children: child labourers and street children. They go on to discuss the strengths and limitations of child empowerment and protection methods practised by non-government organisations in Indonesia.
Available: Akatiga, Jl Raden Patah no. 28, Bandung 40132, Indonesia, tel/fax +62-22-250 2622, email akatiga@nusa.or.id, 185 pp, 1996.

THE NEW RICH IN ASIA: MOBILE PHONES, MCDONALDS AND MIDDLE-CLASS REVOLUTION
Edited by Richard Robison and David S. G. Goodman
In recent years a new middle class has emerged in East and Southeast Asia. Their wealth is displayed by Western icons of modernity: a meal at McDonalds or the ubiquitous mobile phone. Each study is based on detailed field research and combines both theoretical and empirical material on countries such as China, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand. The Indonesian chapter is by Robison.
Published in London by Routledge. Available: Mandy Miller, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch Univ., Perth, Australia, email mandy@sunarc.murdoch.edu.au, fax 61-09-310-4944. Cost: AU$26.95 plus p/h.

REACTORS ON THE RING OF FIRE: IMPLICATIONS FOR INDONESIA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
by August Schlapfer
Working Paper 65 outlines Indonesian plans to build nuclear reactors on Java, part of the earthquake-prone 'Ring of Fire'. Schlapfer examines issues surrounding Indonesian energy policy; contending views on nuclear power within the government; the implications of a Chernobyl-type accident; financial considerations; and environmentally preferable alternatives.
Available: Mandy Miller, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch Univ., email mandy@sunarc.murdoch.edu.au, fax 61-09-310-4944. Cost: AU$18.95 plus p/h.

SUBVERSION AS FOREIGN POLICY: THE SECRET EISENHOWER AND DULLES DEBACLE IN INDONESIA
By Audrey and George Kahin
Based on unprecedented access to secret documents and interviews with many participants, this book examines how America's foreign policy is actually conducted. During the late 1950s, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles provoked a civil war in Indonesia aimed at transforming its government to fit their own prescription. As great a debacle as the Bay of Pigs affair in Cuba, Eisenhower's covert military intervention in Indonesia was even more destructive and had longer-lasting consequences for the local population. The Kahins have reconstructed one of the least known and most shocking episodes of the Cold War.
A Southeast Asian edition available from Forum, 11 Jalan 11/4E, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, contact: K. S. Jomo, fax +756-1879, email g2jomo@cc.um.my. Cost AU$25 or M'sian Rgt 40.

ON THE SUBJECT OF 'JAVA'
By John Pemberton
Pemberton considers how the appearance of order under Suharto's repressive New Order regime is an effect of an enigmatic politics founded upon routine appeals to cultural values. Through a richly textured ethnographic account of events ranging from national elections to weddings, Pemberton simultaneously elucidates and disturbs the contours of the New Order cultural imagery. Key to this study is a reexamination of the historical conditions under which a discourse of culture emerges.
Published by Cornell University Press, 1994. AU$29.95.

TIMOR EN GUERRE: LE CROCODILE ET LES PORTUGAIS (1847- 1913)
By Rene Pelissier
All writing about East Timor since 1975 has failed to take account of the area's traditional hostility to any extraneous rule. Between 1847 and 1913, Lisbon, Macau and their allies mounted some 60 expeditions before the fierce warriors were to accept their military defeat - for the time being at least. Making meticulous use of Portuguese and Dutch sources, the author has filled one of the last blanks on the historiographic map of the 19th and 20th centuries. In French.
Published by Pelissier, available: Montamets, 78630 Orgeval, France, postal cheque account: Paris 9578-05-Y, 368 pp, 360 French Francs.

THE INDONESIAN ECONOMY SINCE 1966: SOUTHEAST ASIA'S EMERGING GIANT
By Hal Hill
Indonesia was a 'chronic economic dropout' in the early 1960s. Yet by the early 1990s the World Bank called it an 'East Asian miracle economy'. Out of the turbulence of the mid-1960s has emerged one of the developing world's major socioeconomic transformations. This is the first book to provide an integrated treatment of the Indonesian economy since the fall of Sukarno. It highlights Indonesia's successes, including rapid industrialisation, food production, and an outward-looking policy. It also looks at challenges, including economic reform, external debt, regional disparities and the need for predictable policy.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1996, 328pp. AU$36.95.

THE DARK SIDE OF PARADISE : POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN BALI
by Geoffrey Robinson
How can the bloody massacre of 1965-1966 be reconciled with the pervasive view of Bali as an earthly paradise whose people live in harmony with nature and with each other? Robinson seeks to unravel this paradox, and in so doing discloses previously unexplored conflicts of class and culture which have permeated the island's recent history. A cogent explanation of why Bali's troubled past has such an untroubled reputation, this book is at once a unique history and a critique of scholarly and popular portrayals of modern Bali.
Cornell University Press, hardcover, 1995, AU$55.