John Ingleson
Biographic Data
| ID | 337539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Ingleson |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Ingleson |
| SIGNATURE | INGLESON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Problem of Money: Sobsi and Its Affiliated Unions, 1950–65
Between 1950 and 1965 Sobsi, one of the four major mass organizations connected to the Indonesian Communist Party, was the dominant labor union federation in Indonesia. Sobsi and its affiliated unions had to raise their own money to build their organizations and sustain their industrial, social, educational, and political activities. This article discusses the sources and extent of Sobsi’s income and argues that its insistence that fundraising wa…
Workers and Democracy: The Indonesian Labor Movement, 1949-1957
Dutch recognition of Indonesia's sovereignty in December 1949 ended the constraints of colonialism, invasion, and reoccupation. Unions were free to reorganize and workers were free to take collective action to improve their lot in life. A labor movement that had struggled against a repressive colonial regime now flourished. There was freedom of association, freedom of the press, electoral politics with universal suffrage, and above all, the right…
Illiberal democracy in Indonesia: The ideology of the family state
Illiberal democracy in Indonesia: The ideology of the family state." Asian Studies Review, 41(3), pp. 498–499
A prince in a republic: The life of Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX of Yogyakarta
A prince in a republic: the life of Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX of Yogyakarta." Asian Studies Review, 41(1), pp. 165–166
Renegotiating the Postcolonial Workplace: Indonesian Dockworkers in 1950
Race, class and the deserving poor: Charities and the 1930s Depression in Java
The 1930s Depression caused an enormous growth in urban poverty in colonial Java. Informal neighbourhood networks could no longer cope with the unemployed, the homeless and the destitute. Politically conscious Indonesians were convinced that the colonial state was concerned only with poverty among Europeans. They responded by creating new charities focused on the Indonesian lower classes. Many provided middle-class women with opportunities for le…
Workers, Unions and Politics: Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s
In Workers, Unions and Politics. Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s, John Ingleson revises received understandings of the decade and a half between the failed communist uprisings of 1926/1927 and the Japanese occupation in 1942. They were important years for the labour movement. It had to recover from the crackdown by the colonial state and then cope with the impact of the 1930s depression. Labour unions were voices for greater social justice, for …
Fear of the kampung, fear of unrest: Urban unemployment and colonial policy in 1930s Java
This paper discusses the responses of The Netherlands Indies colonial government to the rise in urban unemployment in Java brought about by the 1930s Depression. At least one in six of the large European/Eurasian population in the colony, and an even larger proportion of urban Indonesian workers, became unemployed as a result of the Depression. The colonial government and the European community were greatly concerned that the growth of unemployme…
Sutomo, the Indonesian Study Club and organised labour in late colonial Surabaya
The labour movement in colonial Indonesia is an important part of Indonesian history. The accepted convention is that after 1926, there was little or no labour activity in the colony, or at least little of any consequence. This article argues that much was going on but that it was of a different character from earlier years because of the limitations imposed by the colonial government. The Indonesian Study Club, based in Surabaya and led by Dr Su…
The Legacy of Colonial Labour Unions in Indonesia
This article discusses the legacy of the colonial labour movement in Indonesia under five broad headings; labour unions and the development of political consciousness; labour unions as socio‐economic institutions; leaders, followers and the development of worker leadership; organisations and structural legacies; and class, ethnic and religious divisions. For over three decades after the first labour union was created in 1908, union leaders strugg…
Labour unions and the provision of social security in colonial Java
Australia in Asia
Anthony Milner (ed). Australia in Asia. Comparing Cultures. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty (eds). Australia in Asia. Communities of Thought. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty (eds). Australia in Asia. Episodes. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998
The Asian values debate: Accommodating dissident voices
This article focuses on four common assertions in the ‘Asian values’ and ‘Asianisation of Asia’ debates. First, that deference to authority is an intrinsic Asian value. Second, that political pluralism is a Western concept arising from Western cultural values. Third, that a strong civil society is a Western phenomenon. Fourth, that all human rights are not necessarily universal. The article argues that a crucial issue for all Asian countries is t…
Mutual benefit societies in Indonesia
We do not know when or how mutual benefit societies first appeared in colonial Indonesia, but there is evidence that they were part of the lives of at least some of the ordinary people in the towns and cities by the last quarter of the nineteenth century. By the 1910s they were common in workplaces and kampung, the often less than salubrious parts of the towns and cities where wage labourers and their families lived. Large numbers of people joine…
Asaa matters
The year‐in‐Asia language programs
An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912-1926
Australia's Asian future: Rhetoric or reality
(1991). Australia's Asian future: rhetoric or reality? Asian Studies Review: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 211-216
Directions in Indonesian studies
(1990). Directions in Indonesian studies. Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 7-12
Urban Java during the Depression
The depression devastated export crop earnings from the Netherlands Indies, with consequent severe effects on a colonial economy dependent on them. For many Indonesians in the towns and cities of Java the depression was a time of difficulty but not a disaster — wage cuts, worsened conditions, slower promotions and reduced opportunities for their children may have been partially compensated by a decline in the cost-of-living. Many others, though, …
Briefly noted
H.W. Arndt, A Course through Life: Memoirs of an Australian Economist, History of Development Studies no. 1, National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 1985. ix, 117 pp. Notes, index. Paper: $10. J. Van Baal, K.W. Galis, & R.M. Koentjaraningrat, West Irian: A Bibliography, KITLV Bibliographic Series no. 15, Leiden, 1984. xiv, 370 pp. Preface, abbreviations, explanatory note, author index, index of geographi…
Report on Asaa council meeting, 13 May 1984
Report on ASAA council meeting, 13 May 1984." Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, 8(1), pp. 17–18
Australian‐Indonesian misunderstandings
(1984). Australian‐Indonesian misunderstandings. Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 28-33
Report on Asaa council meeting, 12 August 1983
Briefly noted
L.G. Bagshawe (trans.). The Maniyadanabon of Shin Sandalinka, Data Paper No. 115, Southeast Asia Program, Cornelll University, Ithaca (N.Y.), 1981. 132 pp, foreword, translator's preface, glossary, preface to 1968 edition by U Myint Hswei. Paper: US$7.00. A. Chamid, The Poorest of the Poor: Three Case Studies from Indonesia, trans, by K. Foulcher, Center of Southeast Asian Studies Working Paper No. 26, Monash University, Melbourne, 1982. 42 pp, p…
Life and Work in Colonial Cities: Harbour Workers in Java in the 1910s and 1920s
Thestudy of Indonesian history is still very much in its infancy. There is as yet nothing like the breadth or depth of historical writing on Indonesia that there is on China or India, let alone on Europe or the United States. Nowhere is this more evident than in the dearth of urban history. Certainly, Indonesia was, and is, predominantly an agricultural society, but since the 1870s an increasing number of Indonesians have lived in towns and citie…
Bound Hand and Foot: Railway Workers and the 1923 Strike in Java
The railway strike which broke out in Java on May 9, 1923, was the largest and most widespread strike in colonial Indonesia.Called by the Union o f Rail and Tram way Workers (VSTP), one o f the oldest unions in the colony, it expressed the deepseated discontent among these workers, that had for years been largely ignored by companies and government alike.Thus, although many o f the central leaders of the VSTP were also prominent in the Indies Com…
Worker Consciousness and Labour Unions in Colonial Java
F ROM THE 1870s the rate of urban growth in Java probably began to outstrip the rate of general growth for the first time, a process which accelerated from the early 1900s.' Together with the crisis in the rural areas, which was becoming obvious even to colonial administrators, urbanization paved the way for new forms of social and political organization endeavouring to reintegrate people and communities in both kampong and villages and give them…
Labour unions and the provision of social security in colonial Java
Urban Java during the Depression
The depression devastated export crop earnings from the Netherlands Indies, with consequent severe effects on a colonial economy dependent on them. For many Indonesians in the towns and cities of Java the depression was a time of difficulty but not a disaster — wage cuts, worsened conditions, slower promotions and reduced opportunities for their children may have been partially compensated by a decline in the cost-of-living. Many others, though, …
Race, class and the deserving poor: Charities and the 1930s Depression in Java
The 1930s Depression caused an enormous growth in urban poverty in colonial Java. Informal neighbourhood networks could no longer cope with the unemployed, the homeless and the destitute. Politically conscious Indonesians were convinced that the colonial state was concerned only with poverty among Europeans. They responded by creating new charities focused on the Indonesian lower classes. Many provided middle-class women with opportunities for le…
Fear of the kampung, fear of unrest: Urban unemployment and colonial policy in 1930s Java
This paper discusses the responses of The Netherlands Indies colonial government to the rise in urban unemployment in Java brought about by the 1930s Depression. At least one in six of the large European/Eurasian population in the colony, and an even larger proportion of urban Indonesian workers, became unemployed as a result of the Depression. The colonial government and the European community were greatly concerned that the growth of unemployme…
Sutomo, the Indonesian Study Club and organised labour in late colonial Surabaya
The labour movement in colonial Indonesia is an important part of Indonesian history. The accepted convention is that after 1926, there was little or no labour activity in the colony, or at least little of any consequence. This article argues that much was going on but that it was of a different character from earlier years because of the limitations imposed by the colonial government. The Indonesian Study Club, based in Surabaya and led by Dr Su…
Australia's Asian future: Rhetoric or reality
(1991). Australia's Asian future: rhetoric or reality? Asian Studies Review: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 211-216
Illiberal democracy in Indonesia: The ideology of the family state
Illiberal democracy in Indonesia: The ideology of the family state." Asian Studies Review, 41(3), pp. 498–499
Australia in Asia
Anthony Milner (ed). Australia in Asia. Comparing Cultures. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty (eds). Australia in Asia. Communities of Thought. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty (eds). Australia in Asia. Episodes. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998
Mutual benefit societies in Indonesia
We do not know when or how mutual benefit societies first appeared in colonial Indonesia, but there is evidence that they were part of the lives of at least some of the ordinary people in the towns and cities by the last quarter of the nineteenth century. By the 1910s they were common in workplaces and kampung, the often less than salubrious parts of the towns and cities where wage labourers and their families lived. Large numbers of people joine…
Directions in Indonesian studies
(1990). Directions in Indonesian studies. Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 7-12
Responses to the conference lecture
(1978). Responses to the conference lecture. Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 2-12
Asaa news: December council meeting
Staff exchanges between universities
Staff exchanges between universities." Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, 4(2), pp. 30–31
Briefly noted
B.B. Hering, ed., Soekarno's Mentjapai Indonesia Merdeka, SEA Monograph no. 1, James Cook University, Townsville, 1978. iv, 121 pp., index. Paperback, n.p.g. B. Hering, ed., From Soekamiskin to Endeh, Occasional Paper no. 1, James Cook University, Townsville, 1979. 62 pp. Paperback, n.p.g. Ho Peng Yoke, Modern Scholarship on the History of Chinese Astronomy, Occasional Paper no. 16, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canber…
August council meeting
Implementing the Fitzgerald report
Bound Hand and Foot: Railway Workers and the 1923 Strike in Java
The railway strike which broke out in Java on May 9, 1923, was the largest and most widespread strike in colonial Indonesia.Called by the Union o f Rail and Tram way Workers (VSTP), one o f the oldest unions in the colony, it expressed the deepseated discontent among these workers, that had for years been largely ignored by companies and government alike.Thus, although many o f the central leaders of the VSTP were also prominent in the Indies Com…
Worker Consciousness and Labour Unions in Colonial Java
F ROM THE 1870s the rate of urban growth in Java probably began to outstrip the rate of general growth for the first time, a process which accelerated from the early 1900s.' Together with the crisis in the rural areas, which was becoming obvious even to colonial administrators, urbanization paved the way for new forms of social and political organization endeavouring to reintegrate people and communities in both kampong and villages and give them…
Results constitutional referendum
Road to Exile. The Indonesian Nationalist Movement, 1927-1934
Report on Asaa council meeting, 12 August 1983
Briefly noted
L.G. Bagshawe (trans.). The Maniyadanabon of Shin Sandalinka, Data Paper No. 115, Southeast Asia Program, Cornelll University, Ithaca (N.Y.), 1981. 132 pp, foreword, translator's preface, glossary, preface to 1968 edition by U Myint Hswei. Paper: US$7.00. A. Chamid, The Poorest of the Poor: Three Case Studies from Indonesia, trans, by K. Foulcher, Center of Southeast Asian Studies Working Paper No. 26, Monash University, Melbourne, 1982. 42 pp, p…
Life and Work in Colonial Cities: Harbour Workers in Java in the 1910s and 1920s
Thestudy of Indonesian history is still very much in its infancy. There is as yet nothing like the breadth or depth of historical writing on Indonesia that there is on China or India, let alone on Europe or the United States. Nowhere is this more evident than in the dearth of urban history. Certainly, Indonesia was, and is, predominantly an agricultural society, but since the 1870s an increasing number of Indonesians have lived in towns and citie…
Report on Asaa council meeting, 13 May 1984
Report on ASAA council meeting, 13 May 1984." Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, 8(1), pp. 17–18
Australian‐Indonesian misunderstandings
(1984). Australian‐Indonesian misunderstandings. Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 28-33
Briefly noted
H.W. Arndt, A Course through Life: Memoirs of an Australian Economist, History of Development Studies no. 1, National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 1985. ix, 117 pp. Notes, index. Paper: $10. J. Van Baal, K.W. Galis, & R.M. Koentjaraningrat, West Irian: A Bibliography, KITLV Bibliographic Series no. 15, Leiden, 1984. xiv, 370 pp. Preface, abbreviations, explanatory note, author index, index of geographi…
Urban Java during the Depression
The depression devastated export crop earnings from the Netherlands Indies, with consequent severe effects on a colonial economy dependent on them. For many Indonesians in the towns and cities of Java the depression was a time of difficulty but not a disaster — wage cuts, worsened conditions, slower promotions and reduced opportunities for their children may have been partially compensated by a decline in the cost-of-living. Many others, though, …
Directions in Indonesian studies
(1990). Directions in Indonesian studies. Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 7-12
Australia's Asian future: Rhetoric or reality
(1991). Australia's Asian future: rhetoric or reality? Asian Studies Review: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 211-216
Asaa matters
The year‐in‐Asia language programs
An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912-1926
Mutual benefit societies in Indonesia
We do not know when or how mutual benefit societies first appeared in colonial Indonesia, but there is evidence that they were part of the lives of at least some of the ordinary people in the towns and cities by the last quarter of the nineteenth century. By the 1910s they were common in workplaces and kampung, the often less than salubrious parts of the towns and cities where wage labourers and their families lived. Large numbers of people joine…
The Asian values debate: Accommodating dissident voices
This article focuses on four common assertions in the ‘Asian values’ and ‘Asianisation of Asia’ debates. First, that deference to authority is an intrinsic Asian value. Second, that political pluralism is a Western concept arising from Western cultural values. Third, that a strong civil society is a Western phenomenon. Fourth, that all human rights are not necessarily universal. The article argues that a crucial issue for all Asian countries is t…
Australia in Asia
Anthony Milner (ed). Australia in Asia. Comparing Cultures. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty (eds). Australia in Asia. Communities of Thought. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty (eds). Australia in Asia. Episodes. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998
Asian Studies and History (24 works) · Political science (24 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (13 works) · History (12 works) · Indonesian (11 works) · Colonialism (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works)