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Population : 217.5 m
Surface area: 1.9 m sq. km
Population growth: 1 %
Life expectancy (2002): 67
Population below national poverty line (2000): 27.1%
GNI per capita: 1140 $

GDP: 257.6 b $


Source: World Development Indicators
Database 2004

 

Head of State:

President              Susilo Bambang YUDHOYONO

Vice President       Muhammad Yusuf KALLA

Source: CIA Chief of States

Indonesia Bibliography

Indonesia bibliography covers books, chapters in books and journal and newspaper articles on elections and the political situation in Indonesia (1999-2004).
The references are selected from the database Bibliography of Asian Studies, databases on social sciences in WebSpirs and in ProQuest Direct, World Affairs Online, Social Sciences and Citation Index.
Compiled by Anja Møller Rasmussen, NIAS Library and Information Centre.
The bibliography as wordfile or as pdf-file (101 KB)

Books in the NIAS LINC collection

Books on the election, the political situation, and Indonesia’s international relations

Internet Links on Indonesia

 

May 2006 Earthquake; please visit our Natural Disaster Asia Insight here

Tsunami relief efforts; please visit our Tsunami Relief Portal here

 

Facts and Background
Fact sheet from Asia Society
Political Resources on the Net
Country profile (CIA)

Centre for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS
Country Reports Indonesia
Human rights record (Amnesty)
Amnesty Annual Human rights Report 2003

Building Hunan Security in Indonesia: Conflict Prevention Initiative, Harvard University

International Crisis Group: Indonesia

Digital Atlas of Indonesian History by Robert Cribb

WWW-VL History: Indonesia

International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Politics and Society
Governmental bodies
People's Consultative Assembly (MPR)
House of Representatives (DPR)
Department of Foreign Affairs
Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS)

Bibliography of Indonesian Politics and Economy since 1965

Horas Mandailing/ The Mandailing People "The Mandailing are a people of the west coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia. Throughout the 19th century, they were embroiled in several civil wars, at first in Sumatra and then in peninsular Malaysia, to which they migrated in large groups. The clan-based society has an indigenous tradition of democratic and egalitarian governance.

Political Parties
Please note that the access to some of the web addresses below are unstable. Please try again if you cannot get access first time.
Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (PPP) [United Development Party]
Partai Amanat Nasional (PAN) [National Mandate Party]
Partai Keadilan (PK)
Partai Daulat Rakyat (PDR)
Partai Demokrasi Kasih Bangsa (PDKB) - no website
Partai Keadilan Dan Persatuan (PKP)
Partai Cinta Damai
Partai Seni dan Dagelan Indonesia (PARSENDI)
Partai Uni Demokrasi Indonesia (PUDI)
Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) [Communist Party of Indonesia]

Elections
Elections in Indonesia
Election Committee
Election Supervison Committee
Centre for Election Reform
International Crisis Group: Indonesia Backgrounder: A Guide to the 2004 Elections. Asia Report N°71 18 December 2003

News agency
Antara - Indonesian National News Agency

DETICOM

News
The Jakarta Post
Republika Online
South China Morning Post
Kompas - large circulation daily
Pos Kota - large circulation daily
Asia Recovery Information Center (ARIC), ADB
Bisnis Indonesia

Acehtimes

Acheh-eye

Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER)
Go Asia Pacific
AsiaMad.co
Tempo

Indonesia News-Net

Laksamana

News agency reports on Indonesia
BBC Indonesia
BBC Indonesia Country Profile
CNN news
Yahoo News (Reuters/AP/etc)

Television
Surya Citra Televisi Indonesia (SCTV) - commercial network
Televisi Pendidikan Indonesia (TPI) - commercial network

Universities, Research Institutions, Libraries and Networks

Center for Asia and Pacific Studies (CAPS), Gadjah Mada niversity, Indonesia

Center for Industrial Economic Studies, Faculty of Economics, University of Trisakti, Indonesia

Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Surabaya, Indonesia

Demographic Institute, Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia (LD-FEUI)

Urban and Regional Development Institute (URDI), Indonesia

Diponegoro University
Universitas Diponegoro - UNDIP, Semarang . English
Duta Wacana Christian University
Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana - UKSW, Yogyakarta . Only Bahasa Indonesia.
Gadjah Mada University
Universitas Gadjah Mada - UGM, Yogyakarta . Bahasa Indonesia. Institute of Technology Bandung
Institut Teknologi Bandung , ITB. Bahasa Indonesia and English.
North Sumatra University
Universitas Sumatera Utara. In Bahasa Indonesia.

SMERU is an independent institution for research and policy studies which provides accurate and timely information and objective analysis, professionally and proactively, on various socio-economic and poverty issues which are considered most urgent and relevant for the people of Indonesia.

University of Indonesia
Universitas Indonesia . Bahasa Indonesia and English.

UMM
Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang . Bahasa Indonesia and English.
University of Petra
Universitas Kristen Petra . English. A Christian university in Surabaya . Lots of interesting links.
UNPAR
Universitas Katolik Parahyangan.

Nordic Networks and programs

Centre for Asian Studies. Göteborg University

Institutionen för östasiatiska språk  Lund University

timor-indonesia nordic: noridisk liste om øst timor og indonesien

International Networks

The Indonesian Conflict Studies Network
Acts as a Local Conflict Information Network (LCIN) by facilitating research collaboration and the exchange of information between conflict scholars in Indonesia and in the Nordic countries.

In Search of Middle Indonesia' is a new joint Netherlands-Indonesia research program. It will conduct social science research on intermediate classes (lower middle class), and particularly youth, in provincial towns in Indonesia [...]. It will run from 2006 to 2010.
The program includes funding for two two-year postdoctoral fellowships and four PhD scholarships [...].

Discusion lists

IDS (Indonesian Development Studies) Discussion list on Indonesian development studies. tserv@suvm.syr.edu

Indonesia-l News, views, and resources on contemporary Indonesia. majordomo@igc.apc.org

Janus, Discussion list on Indonesia. indonesians-request@janus.berkeley.edu

Databases

Intan Mas Database

Database at Northern Territory University, Australia on northern Australia and eastern Indonesia, and on Australia's relations with Indonesia.

East and Southeast Asia: an annotated directory of Internet resources on Indonesia

Balinese Manuscript Collection Index at The Australian National University Library, Canberra, Australia "This Index provides a searchable index to the Balinese Manuscript Collection housed in the Menzies Library of the Australian National University Library.

Tanap, Towards a New Age of Partnership in Dutch East India Company Archives and Research (TANAP) "Objectives of the TANAP programme: a. to preserve the VOC [Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, Dutch East India Company, 1602-1796] archives [...] b. [...] to improve the[ir] availability and accessibility [...] c. to carry out research into the early-modern economic and social transformations in Asia and Southern Africa; d.
to train a new generation of historians in Asia, Africa and Europe [...]."[Participating] Universities; * Archives (Archives keeping VOC documents: Nationaal Archief, Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia, Cape Town Archives Repository, National Archives of Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu Archives, British Library - Oriental and India Office Collections, Arkib Negara Malaysia)
Research on Indonesia : Ingrid Saroda Cosijn-Mitrasing
(Netherlands) - The Evolution of Kingship in Seventeenth Century Aceh Darussalam (1600-1645). Dr. KWEE, Hui-kian (Singapore) - The Political Economy of Java's Northeast Coast, c. 1740-1800: Elite Synergy. Sher Banu A. Latiff Khan (Singapore) - Rule behind the Silk
Curtain: A Study of Aceh under the Reign of the Queens, 1641-1699.
Sri Margana (Indonesia) - The Contested Frontier: Rebellion, Economy and Social Change in Java's Oosthoek, 1763-1811. Dr. Atsushi Ota
(Japan) - Changes of Regime and Social Dynamics in West Java. Yusak Soleiman (Indonesia) - The Propagation of Dutch Reformed Protestantism on Java in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century c. 1753-1835: A Study of Religion and Society in two colonial Towns (Batavia and Semarang) and its Perception by Early Nineteenth Century Missionaries. Muridan S. Widjojo (Indonesia) - Cross-Cultural Alliance-making and Local Resistance in the Moluccas during the Revolt of Prince Nuku, c. 1780-1810.

Development organisations/ agencies

Agricultural profile (FAO)
Development organisations (Devdir)
UNEP Environment Outlook

Environmental profile (WRI)
Reliefweb situation reports

Industrial profile (UNIDO)

IMF country profile

UNSFIR

Other resources
Access Indonesia
Eldis: Indonesia

AsiaSource: Indonesia

 

 

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