Ben Bland‘s new biography of Indonesian president Joko Widodo has attracted a wide range of interest from scholars of Indonesian politics and society. Titled Man of Contradictions, the book is the first English-language biography of Indonesia’s seventh president. A number of reviews have recently been published by Indonesians and Indonesianists, including one by me. Here […]
Category: Indonesia
Colonial Imprints: English, French, and Dutch Compared
I woke up this morning to see this interesting question on Twitter: This is an incredibly stupid 2 questions, particularly since I have no personal experience of 2 of the 3 countries, but I’ll ask. My vague sense is that Dutch imprint on Indonesia today is lighter than British imprint on India; French in Algeria. […]
