Historical Dictionary of Indonesia (Asian Historical Dictionaries, No. 9)

Indonesia is Asia's third largest country in both population and area, a sprawling tropical archipelago of some 180 million people form hundreds of ethnic groups with a complex and turbulent history. One of Asia's newly industrializing countries, it is already a major economic powerhouse. In over 800 clear and succinct entries, the dictionary covers people, places, and organizations, as well as economics, culture, and political thought from Indonesia's ancient history up until the recent past. With comprehensive bibliography, maps, chronology, list of abbreviations, and appendix of election results and major office-holder.