Indonesia, Vol. 090, October 2010
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Item Editors' Note, Indonesia, Volume 90 (October 2010)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-10)Item Modernity and Decadence in Fin-de-Siècle Fiction of the Dutch EmpireSears, Laurie J. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-10)Themes of empire and sexual degeneracy permeate the works of fin-de-siècle authors Tirto Adhi Soerjo and Louis Couperus, producing dread and melancholia in the work of Couperus and the anxiety and enchantments associated with capital, modernity, and fashion in the fiction of Tirto, who wrote until he was disowned by the colonial administration, attacked by his enemies, and exiled from Java. In Couperus’s novels, discussed in this essay, melancholic repetitions obscure the connections between the decadence of both Dutch and Indies colonial bureaucracies and phantasies and phantoms of empire.Item Front Cover and Title Page, Indonesia, Volume 90 (October 2010)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-10)Item Table of Contents, Indonesia, Volume 90 (October 2010)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-10)Item "Pirates or Entrepreneurs?" The Migration and Trade of Sea People in Southwest Kalimantan, c. 1770-1820Ota, Atsushi (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-10)Around 1800, an increasing number of Sea People (Bugis, Malay, Iranun, and others) migrated to the coastal areas of Southwest Kalimantan. They played an important role in the economic transformation of the region because they promoted the exportation of increasingly diversified products for the China market, such as birds’ nests, sea cucumbers, and eaglewood, as well as importing various Indian textiles and other foreign items. Local states became increasingly dependent on these maritime entrepreneurs, who have often been characterized, too simply, as “pirates.”Item Review of A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of its IntellectualsMrázek, Rudolf (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-10)Item Legal Pluralism and Criminal Law in the Dutch Colonial OrderCribb, Robert (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-10)Legal pluralism was a fundamental feature of the political order in colonial Indonesia. It arose not only from the parsimony of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), but also from colonial doctrine. In the nineteenth century, pressure grew to move from pluralism to universalism in law, and policy battles were fought over a series of issues—the arbitrary rights of colonial officials, flogging (rottingslagen), and the death penalty—but progress towards legal unification was slow and incomplete. Legal pluralism had a lasting effect on Indonesians’ attitudes to cultural diversity.Item Review of Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre: Spectral Genealogies and Absent FacesWinet, Evan Darwin (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-10)Item Review of Political Reform in Indonesia after SoehartoCrouch, Harold (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-10)Item Contributors, Indonesia, Volume 90 (October 2010)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-10)