International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)

Adrian Vickers takes the reader on a journey across the social and political landscape of modern Indonesia, a relatively unfamiliar and understudied country. He starts with Indonesia’s origins under the Dutch in the early twentieth-century, and concludes with the fall of Suharto's New Order after thirty two years in power, and the subsequent turmoil which culminated in the Bali bombings in 2002.

• A colourful and fascinating trawl through the highs and lows of Indonesia’s history, its politics, and its people
• Author uses the work of Indonesia’s most famous novelist as a prism for explaining the cultural nuances of a complex and underexplored society
*This is an up to date, and timely account by one of the premier historians of Indonesia