Indonesia: Peoples and Histories - Tengku Muhammad Dhani Iqbal

PREFACE
The sources are arranged in the bibliography under chapter headings. For
this book I have drawn mainly on English-language texts, since it is a general
history, but I have also included some books and articles in Indonesian,
Dutch, and French that I found particularly valuable.
The spelling of places and names conforms to modernized spelling systems.
Older texts use Achin for Aceh, Djakarta for Jakarta, the Moluccas for
Maluku, Malacca for Melaka, the Celebes for Sulawesi. I use Kalimantan to refer
to the two-thirds of the island of Borneo that is part of Indonesia. West
Irian has been renamed Papua, and the country of Timor Loro Sa’e succeeds
the Indonesian province of East Timor. Terms from Indonesian and other languages
are translated in the text the first time they appear. Those used more
than once are listed alphabetically in the glossary.
The bibliography acknowledges my debt to scholars past and present. I
want to name those to whom my special thanks are due, beginning with my
teachers Jamie Mackie and John Smail for whom I have written this book.
They created my interest in Indonesia and gave me ways of thinking about it.
I thank Anthony Reid for proposing to Yale University Press that I write this
book, and the staff of the Press for their patience, skills, and support. Over
many years the staff of the Documentation Center of the Royal Institute of
Linguistics and Anthropology of Leiden, The Netherlands, have allowed me to
study its wonderful photograph collection. My thanks particularly to Gerrit
Knaap and Dorothée Buur. I thank Jaap Anten for assistance in providing illustrations
for this book. I thank also the Lontar Foundation of Jakarta and
especially Hani Siti Hasanah and John H. McGlynn, for assistance and their
gracious permission to reproduce the illustrations in the text.
The Arts Faculty of the University of New South Wales has supported this
book by providing travel grants so that I could participate in international
conferences and revisit Indonesia, and by awarding me study leave for research
and writing. My colleagues in the School of History endorsed my plans, rearranged
teaching schedules, and gave me encouragement. I particularly acknowledge
Roger Bell, Ian Tyrrell, and my partners in Southeast Asian History,
Ian Black, John Ingleson, and Mina Roces. I have drawn on the expertise of
Rochayah Machali, David Reeve, and Edward Aspinall in the School of Modern
Languages.
My colleagues Barbara Watson Andaya, Charles Coppel, Robert Cribb,
Nancy Florida, Tineke Hellwig, Clive Kessler, Ellen Rafferty, and Michael Van
Langenberg have generously shared their rich knowledge. Donald Emmerson
has carried on with me a conversation about Indonesia over many years and
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