A memoir about the events of the final days in Sumatra. Leon Salim, an activist hoping to accelerate the end of colonial rule in West Sumatra by organizing mass demonstrations there, was arrested along with other nationalist leaders by the Dutch. He was taken on the army's retreat from central Sumatra even as these captors were attempting to fend off an imminent attack by invading Japanese forces. In a day-by-day account of twenty days in March-April 1942, the author is alternately terse, detailed, and impassioned. Told with a reporter's eye (he deals as well with the more general aspects of Dutch administration in the Indies) but also intensely subjective and eminently fascinating.

Prisoners of Kota Cane (Translation Series, No 66)

Biographies & Memoirs

Salim, Leon

Historical

Cornell Univ Modern Indonesia

An analysis of the most recent uprising in Aceh, showing how central government exploitation of the region's natural resources, policies of overcentralization, and social changes have combined to open the way for an armed separatist movement to foment rebellion in the province. 1995. 103 pages.

The Roots of Acehnese Rebellion, 1989-1992 (CORNELL MODERN INDONESIA PROJECT)

History

Kell, Tim

Asia

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