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Des Alwi, Friends and exiles; A memoir of the nutmeg isles and the Indonesian nationalist movement. (Chris F. van Fraassen)

James A. Anderson, The rebel den of Nùng Trí Cao; Loyalty and identity along the Sino-Vietnamese frontier. (Emmanuel Poisson)

Reggie Baay, De njai; Het concubinaat in Nederlands-Indië. (Maya Sutedja-Liem)

John Barker (ed.), The anthropology of morality in Melanesia and beyond. (Jaap Timmer)

Kees Buijs, Powers of blessing from the wilderness and from heaven; Structure and transformations in the religion of the Toraja in the Mamasa area of South Sulawesi. (Robert Wessing)

Jamie S. Davidson, From rebellion to riots; Collective violence
on Indonesian Borneo. (Victor T. King)

Kees van Dijk, The Netherlands Indies and the Great War, 1914-1918. (Jaap Anten)

Linda España-Maram, Creating masculinity in Los Angeles’ Little Manila; Working-class Filipinos and popular culture, 1920s-1950s. (John D. Blanco)

Renate Carstens, Durch Asien im Horizont des Goethekreises; Neue Facetten im Wirken Goethes. (Edwin Wieringa)

James T. Collins, Bahasa Sanskerta dan Bahasa Melayu. (Arlo Griffiths)

Victoria M. Clara van Groenendael, Jaranan; The horse dance and trance in East Java. (Dick van der Meij)

Paul M. Handley, The king never smiles; A biography of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej. (Jeroen Rikkerink)

Holger Jebens, Kago und kastom; Zum Verhältnis von kultureller Fremd- und Selbstwahrnehmung in West New Britain (Papua-Neuguinea). (Menno Hekker)

Lee Hock Guan and Leo Suryadinata (eds), Language, nation and development in Southeast Asia. (Renata M. Lesner-Szwarc)

Ross H. McLeod and Andrew MacIntyre (eds), Indonesia;
Democracy and the promise of good governance.
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Patrick Ziegenhain, The Indonesian parliament and democratization. (Henk Schulte Nordholt)

Laurent Sagart, Roger M. Blench, and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas
(eds), The peopling of East Asia; Putting together archaeology, linguistics and genetics. (Alexander Adelaar)

Saw Swee Hock, The population of Malaysia. (Gavin Jones)

Henk Schulte Nordholt and Fridus Steijlen (producers), Don’t forget to remember me; A day in the life of Indonesia. (Jean Gelman Taylor)

Karel Steenbrink, Catholics in Indonesia; A documented history. Volume I, A modest recovery 1808-1900; Volume 2 (with the cooperation of Paule Maas), The spectacular growth of a self-confident minority 1903-1942. (Chris de Jong)

Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern (eds), Exchange and
sacrifice. (Toon van Meijl)

Hans Straver (samenst.), Wonder en geweld; De Molukken in de verbeelding van vertellers en schrijvers. (G.J. Schutte)

Dendy Sugono et al. (eds), Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Pusat Bahasa; Edisi keempat. (Hein Steinhauer)

Jacqueline Vel, Uma politics; An ethnography of democratization in West Sumba, Indonesia, 1986-2006. (Chris Lundry)

C.W. Watson, Of self and injustice; Autobiography and repression in modern Indonesia. (Roxana Waterson)

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