Indonesia, Vol. 092, October 2011
Permanent URI for this collection
Browse
Recent Submissions
Item Front Cover and Title Page, Indonesia, Volume 92 (October 2011)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item “Either One is a Fascist or One is Not”: The Indies’ National–Socialist Movement, The Imperial Dream, and Mussert’s Colonial Milch CowPollmann, Tessel (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)A reconsideration of Anton Mussert, party leader of the Dutch Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB, National-Socialist Movement), who wrote and spoke regarding the significance of the Indies to the Netherlands before and during World War II. An Indies branch of the NSB was established in 1930, and its attempts to shape a program and message illustrate the dilemmas encountered by a fascist party in a colonial outpost. The colonial authorities in the Indies sought to control the potentially inflammatory rhetoric of the fascists, and Mussert dissuaded NSB members in the Indies from criticizing and challenging those same authorities. Mussert wanted to protect and sustain the Indies branch of the NSB in large part because funds collected from it helped support his efforts in Holland. As the war approached, the party splintered, divided by disagreements over the role and status of Indo (mixed-blood) members of the Indies NSB, who constituted 75 percent of the membership. Anti-semitism and intolerance for “race-mixing” increased. “In the end, the Indies NSB was doomed to fall on its own sword.”Item Protecting the Dragon: Dutch Attempts at Limiting Access to Komodo Lizards in the 1920s and 1930sBarnard, Timothy P. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)In 1912, Dutch scientists announced the existence of large lizards on Komodo Island in the Dutch East Indies. By the 1920s, these large lizards became the focus of intense collecting efforts on behalf of zoos and natural history museums, which desired the publicity and status inherent in displaying such a “celebrity species.” This article focuses on Dutch attempts to limit access to a little understood animal, which was located on the margins of their authority. By the 1930s, this led to new understandings about the role of wildlife reserves in the colony and thus became vital in the development of early environmental conservation in Indonesia.Item “The Single Most Astonishing Fact of Human Geography”: Indonesia’s Far West ColonyKumar, Ann (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)This paper addresses the question of why the prehistoric Indonesian colonization of Madagascar has been described as the most astonishing fact of human geography. Evidence from linguistics, DNA, boat-building, and the history of trade is adduced to explain how and why such a colonization took place. It is argued that this colonization was made possible by the remarkable seafaring tradition that made Austronesian the world’s most far-flung language family in premodern times. Also of great importance was the strategic position of the states that organized this colonization with respect to an early world-system of the type described by Wallerstein.Item Table of Contents, Indonesia, Volume 92 (October 2011)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Editors' Note, Indonesia, Volume 92 (October 2011)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Contributors, Indonesia, Volume 92 (October 2011)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Review of Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in IndonesiaSunardi, Christina (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Review of Understanding Islam in Indonesia: Politics and DiversitySmith-Hefner, Nancy J. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Review of Resistance on the National Stage: Theater and Politics in Late New Order IndonesiaAberle, Tamara (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)