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Title The encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War / edited by Peter Post (general editor), William H. Frederick, Iris Heidebrink, Shigeru Sato ; co-edited by William Bradley Horton and Didi Kwartanada
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description xxix, 710 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) maps ; 28 cm
Series Handbook of oriental studies ; v. 19
Handbook of oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 3, Southeast Asia, 0169-9571 ; v. 19
Handbook of oriental studies ; v. 19
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Dritte Abteilung, Südostasien ; 19. Bd
Contents 1. General introduction -- 2. Historical overview -- The war in the Pacific -- Muslims and the coming of the Japanese -- The sinking of the Junyo Maru -- Oral tale of the invasion of Gorontalo (North Sulawesi) -- Australia's war in New Guinea, and Australia in the liberation of the Netherlands East Indies -- Indonesia during the Japanese occupation -- 3. Occupation: administration and policies -- Sumatra's regional governments -- Of 'permanent possession': territories under the Imperial Japanese Navy -- Dugas Jepange/the Japanese period: Bali under the Japanese -- Administrative changes in Java -- Institutions -- Nationalist activities during the Japanese period -- Giyugun: the indigenous defense force in Sumatra -- The PETA -- History and memories of the birth of the PETA -- 4. Occupation: coercion and control -- Policing society -- The guard house -- Internment of civilians -- Prisoners of war -- Prisoners of war put to work at the Thailand-Burma railway -- Comfort women -- Romusha -- Calculated strategy or senseless murder? mass killings in japanese-occupied south and west Kalimantan, 1943-1945 -- 5. Occupation: economy -- Japanese control of enemy property -- Monetary issues -- Japanese nusiness in war-time Indonesia -- Relocation of labor and the romusha issue -- Under the Mitsui zealots: coal and labor in Sumatra -- Economic life in villages and towns -- "Destroy the enemy with diamonds" -- 6. Occupation: society and social change -- Social change -- Fujinkai (Women's Association) -- Islam during the Japanese occupation -- Christianity -- The education of pribumi -- The road to resinification: education for the Chinese during the Japanese occupation -- The Eurasian community during the Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 -- The Arab minority -- 7. Occupation: culture -- Intellectual life and the media -- The rise and fall of the Nippon Eigasha Jakarta studio -- Literature -- Language -- The development of modern Indonesian painting -- From kimigayo to Indonesia Raya: Indonesian songs during the occupation -- Chinese socio-cultural life during the occupation -- 8. Postwar burdens and memory -- War crimes tribunals -- Japanese memory of the wartime occupation of Indonesia -- Dutch post-war visions -- Dutch memories of the war -- Indonesian historiography of the occupation period -- Indonesian views
Summary An obvious gap amidst the abundance of Pacific War studies is the story of Indonesia in that period. This encyclopedia, edited under the aegis of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation now fills that gap. Co-editor Shigeru Sato from University of Newcastle, Australia
Notes "In cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate
Notes Mode of access: World Wide Web
Handbuch der Orientalistik. no:19. Bd 0169-9423
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Indonesia -- Encyclopedias.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Indonesia.
SUBJECT Indonesia -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065748 -- Encyclopedias. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001614
Indonesia -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065748
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
Author Frederick, William H.
Heidebrink, Iris.
Horton, William Bradley.
Kwartanada, Didi.
Post, Peter, 1953-
Satō, Shigeru, 1950-
Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie.
LC no. 2009045340
ISSN 0169-9571
ISBN 9789004168664 (hbk.)
OTHER TI Asian Studies