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GREEN NEWS INDONESIA
English language bulletin of the Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL) in Jakarta.
Available free to Internet users, it brings updates about ICEL's work on environmental prosecutions, crafting new and better green laws and legislation, collecting comprehensive information on sustainable development in Indonesia, and keeping an eye on all things green. We are eager to have your input. Please ask questions, tell us your reactions and contribute brief articles to the editors.
Contact: the editors, email icel@nusa.or.id or icel@igc.apc.org, or Jl. Kerinci IX/24, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta 12120, Indonesia, Tel: +62-21-739 4432 Fax: +62-21-726 9331.


INDONESIAN REFERENCE GRAMMAR
By JAMES NEIL SNEDDON
This reference grammar provides a comprehensive description of the structure of the Indonesian language written in a clear, non- technical manner. It aims to be a linguistically rigorous and consistent description, but as free as possible of linguistic jargon.
Published in Sydney by Allen & Unwin, 1996, 387 pp. RRP: AU$29.95.


POLITICS IN INDONESIA: DEMOCRACY, ISLAM AND THE IDEOLOGY OF TOLERANCE
By DOUG RAMAGE
Based on a range of interviews with important political figures, Ramage's book argues that the key elements of politics in the late New Order are Suharto's legitimacy, the relation between Islam and the state, the role of the armed forces, and the potential for democracy.
Published by Routledge, 1995, Hardback. Available/ Cost: Nusantara Bookshop at AU$49.95 (more elsewhere).


PRISONERS OF PROGRESS: A REVIEW OF THE CURRENT INDONESIAN LABOUR SITUATION
Edited by DAVID R HARRIS
Three articles describe concrete conditions on the ground, while three take up structural concerns. Indrasari Tjandraningsih writes on women in garment factories, Hans Goderbauer and Rudie Trienes on child labour, Betty Purba and Apong Herlina on workers overseas, Hakim Nusantara on labour regulations, Fauzi Abdullah and Tom Etty on unionism, and Juni Thamrin on the politics of labour.
Published in Leiden by INDOC-FNV-INFID, 1995, 80 pp. Available: INDOC, PO Box 11250, 2301 EG Leiden, Netherlands, Fax +31-71-12 72 33, email indoc@antenna.nl. Cost: Neth guilder 24 incl p/h (airmail) in Europe (approx AU$19), or Neth guilders 27.50 incl p/h outside Europe (approx US$22).


POWER IN MOTION: CAPITAL MOBILITY AND THE INDONESIAN STATE
By JEFFREY A WINTERS
A portrait of Indonesian politics from the fall of President Sukarno, through the oil booms and busts of the 1970s and 1980s, and into the 1990s. Winters illustrates how a focus on capital mobility illuminates a broad range of issues in developing and advanced industrial countries.
Published by Cornell University Press, 1996, Cloth. Cost: US$35 cloth.


THE TIM-TIM MAN
By KERRY B. COLLISON

A work of historical fiction. Tension between Australia and Indonesia brings them to the brink of war. East Timor's sovereignty and the rich oil fields shared by the two neighbouring countries become key elements in one man's ambition. General Nathan Seda, a powerful Indonesian military officer, enmeshes Australian intelligence officer Stephen Coleman in a dangerous plan.
Available: Penfolk or Sid Harta, 63 Arthur St, Ashwood Vic 3147, Australia, fax +61-3-9807 8612, 572 pp, June 1996. Cost: AU$19.95 incl p/h.


A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE: XANANA'S DEFENCE
Reprints Xanana Gusmao's 1993 defence plea, and adds three poems by Xanana, two of them for the first time. An introduction by Peter Slezak compares Xanana's defence speech with Fidel Castro's famous 'La Historia Me Absolver'. (Not to be confused with a similarly titled 1994 book from AETA).
Published by ETRA, May 1996, 57 pp. Available: ETRA, PO Box 23, Fairfield NS 2165, fax 02-891 2876. Cost: AU$10.00 incl. p/h. .


TWO BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES ON INDONESIA on CD-ROM
[1] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INDONESIAN POLITICS AND THE ECONOMY, 3rd edition, 1996, by Michael van Langenberg with the assistance of Suzan Piper, University of Sydney. Contains over 13,000 records listing books, monographs, chapters in books, dissertations, journal articles, and conference papers. Indexed by Keywords. Selected records (30%+) with abstracts.
[2] INTAN MAS, from Northern Territory University. Contains over 8000 records on Nusatenggara, Timor Timur, Sulawesi, Maluku & Irian Jaya, plus Australian relations with Southeast Asia.
Both databases are included on ASIA ROM, published by INFORMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology).
More information: email info@informit.com.au or visit Web site http://www.informit.com.au.


SURVIVING INDONESIA'S GULAG, A WESTERN WOMAN TELLS HER STORY
By CARMEL BUDIARDJO
In this moving account Carmel Budiardjo recalls three years (1968-1971) spent in detention without trial as a suspected communist in Indonesia, as well as the suffering of her fellow political prisoners and her own experience of interrogation and psychological torment. Her personal story is interwoven with a narrative of the bloody events of 1965.
Published by Cassell, London, 213 pp, 1996. Available: Tapol Australia, PO Box 121, Clifton Hill Vic 3068, Australia, AU$30.00 plus AU$4.00 p/h; or Tapol UK, 111 Northwood Rd, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8HW, United Kingdom.


CLASSICAL JAVANESE DANCE: THE SURAKARTA TRADITION AND ITS TERMINOLOGY
By CLARA BRAKEL-PAPENHUYZEN
The first comprehensive survey of dance in contemporary Java. Includes an encyclopedia of Javanese terms, with detailed drawings, discussion on the significance of dancing in Javanese culture, excerpts from Javanese treatises, and a survey of traditional choreographies.
Available: KITLV Press, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA leiden, Netherlands, email kitlvpress@rullet.leidenuniv.nl. 1996, 252 pp. Cost: Neth guilders 65.


Inside Indonesia 47: Jul-Sep 1996


 
 
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