R E Elson
Biographic Data
| ID | 553742 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R E Elson |
| GIVEN NAMES | R E |
| FAMILY NAME | Elson |
| SIGNATURE | ELSON R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sovereignty and the Sea
Until the mid-1950s nearly all of the sea between the far-flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago was open to ships of all nations, but in 1957, the Indonesian government declared that it had absolute sovereignty over all the waters lying within straight baselines drawn between the outermost islands of Indonesia. In this single step, Indonesia made its lands and seas a unified entity for the first time, a claim formally recognized in 1982 by …
End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia
Two Failed Attempts to Islamize the Indonesian Constitution
In 1945 Indonesian politicians endeavouring to create a constitution for their hoped-for Indonesian state engaged in heated debate about the place of Islam in that state. However, the compromise at which they arrived, the famous “seven words” of the Jakarta Charter, was abruptly erased on 18 August, the day after the independence proclamation, by the committee charged with finalizing and validating the Constitution. Subsequently, there have been …
Why did Kartosuwiryo start shooting? An account of Dutch–Republican–Islamic forces interaction in West Java, 1945–49
S.M. Kartosuwiryo, famed leader of the long and bloody Darul Islam rebellion which began in West Java in 1948, was a strong supporter of the Indonesian independence struggle and a champion of the Indonesian Republic proclaimed in 1945. This article seeks to understand how it was that Kartosuwiryo came to oppose that very Republic with such violence in 1948–49. Many scholars have sought to explain the origins of the Darul Islam movement in terms o…
A note on the sources for the 1945 constitutional debates in Indonesia
A close examination of the papers held in the archive of Mr A.K. Pringgodigdo in the Nationaal Archief in The Hague indicates that Muhammad Yamin, presumably for the purpose of his own self-aggrandisement, changed important sections of the original text in his 1959-60 edition of the 1945 constitutional debates in Indonesia. Furthermore, the New Order’s efforts to reduce the legacy and legitimacy of Soekarno led Nugroho Notosusanto, in particular,…
Nationalism, Islam, ‘secularism’ and the state in contemporary Indonesia
This article seeks to explain the impact of Muslim politics on the Indonesian nation and, in particular, why Islamism has found so little political traction. It argues that Islamist ideas were late in emerging in modern Indonesia, and long remained marginal to Indonesians' ideas of what their nation should be and do. It notes, however, that Indonesia's deepening Islamisation has resulted in a sense of growing sectarianism and a developing accommo…
Islam, Islamism, the Nation, and the Early Indonesian Nationalist Movement
In an attempt to understand better the failure of Islamism to exercise any significant impact on the trajectory of Indonesian politics through the twentieth century, this article examines the development of Indonesian Islamist thought in the early twentieth century and compares it to the growth of secularist nationalist thinking. Islamist thinking was slow to arrive at a consciousness of Indonesia as specific national place and homeland. By t…
Clifford Geertz, 1926-2006
Clifford Geertz was best known for his pioneering excursions into symbolic or in terpretive anthropology, especially in relation to Indonesia. Less well recognised are his stimulating explorations of the modern economic history of Indonesia. His thinking on the interplay of economics and culture was most fully and vigorously expounded in Agricultural Involution. That book deployed a succinctly packaged past in order to solve a pressing contempora…
Indonesia and the West
The relationship between Indonesia and the West has always been deeply ambivalent. On the one hand, Indonesia, since it began its search for modernity a century or so ago, has always felt a deep attraction for things Western, which promised technological mastery and economic success which might overcome the humiliation of colonial subjection. On the other hand, Indonesians were wary that any engagement that ran too deep and uncritically might pre…
Constructing the nation
This article examines the ways in which some early twentieth-century Indonesian thinkers conceptualised the state they had so recently imagined, and particularly how they attacked the vast problem of accommodating ethnic difference within the framework of that new state. Notwithstanding the highly promising beginnings of Indonesian self-appreciation in the early twentieth century and an extraordinarily successful cooptation and, as necessary, sub…
Power and Prosperity
The outline of village social structure sketched in the opening chapter characterised it in terms of personal ties with both a horizontal orientation — kin and kin, neighbour and neighbour — and a vertical one, attachment to beaded series of patrons within and especially outside the village. In many places, it was the component hamlets of villages — dusun in Java, thon in Vietnam, for example — rather than the village as such which were the local…
The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia
This book analyses the changing context and conditions of production and livelihood amongst Southeast Asia's peasants since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that with demographic gro
Colonial Production in Provincial Java
The politics of colonial exploitation
Sugar Factory Workers and the Emergence of 'Free Labour' in Nineteenth-Century Java
The Cultivation System, introduced by the Dutch in Java in 1830, was grounded on peasant coercion. Capitalizing on the colonial government's ability to force peasants to produce large, cheap and regular quantities of tropical agricultural goods and to labour unrelentingly at a great variety of other tasks, the System succeeded in its aim of transforming Java from a financial millstone around Holland's neck into a highly profitable resource. Coerc…
Briefly noted
D. Drakakis–Smith, Urbanisation, Housing and the Development Process, Croom–;Helm, London, 1981. 234 pp., illustr., bibliog., index. Cloth: $15.95. W. Poussard, Today is a Real Day – Indochinese Refugees in Australia, Dove Communications, Melbourne, 1981. 133 pp., illust. Paper: n.p.g. M.W. Norris, Local Government in Peninsular Malaysia, Gower Publishing, Westmead, Hants. (UK), 1980. 121pp. $22.50. N. Mulder, Everyday Life in Thailand: An Interp…
The Rijksarcnief's Holdings and the Writing of Java's Local Social History
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Sugar Factory Workers and the Emergence of 'Free Labour' in Nineteenth-Century Java
The Cultivation System, introduced by the Dutch in Java in 1830, was grounded on peasant coercion. Capitalizing on the colonial government's ability to force peasants to produce large, cheap and regular quantities of tropical agricultural goods and to labour unrelentingly at a great variety of other tasks, the System succeeded in its aim of transforming Java from a financial millstone around Holland's neck into a highly profitable resource. Coerc…
Constructing the nation
This article examines the ways in which some early twentieth-century Indonesian thinkers conceptualised the state they had so recently imagined, and particularly how they attacked the vast problem of accommodating ethnic difference within the framework of that new state. Notwithstanding the highly promising beginnings of Indonesian self-appreciation in the early twentieth century and an extraordinarily successful cooptation and, as necessary, sub…
Two Failed Attempts to Islamize the Indonesian Constitution
In 1945 Indonesian politicians endeavouring to create a constitution for their hoped-for Indonesian state engaged in heated debate about the place of Islam in that state. However, the compromise at which they arrived, the famous “seven words” of the Jakarta Charter, was abruptly erased on 18 August, the day after the independence proclamation, by the committee charged with finalizing and validating the Constitution. Subsequently, there have been …
Nationalism, Islam, ‘secularism’ and the state in contemporary Indonesia
This article seeks to explain the impact of Muslim politics on the Indonesian nation and, in particular, why Islamism has found so little political traction. It argues that Islamist ideas were late in emerging in modern Indonesia, and long remained marginal to Indonesians' ideas of what their nation should be and do. It notes, however, that Indonesia's deepening Islamisation has resulted in a sense of growing sectarianism and a developing accommo…
Why did Kartosuwiryo start shooting? An account of Dutch–Republican–Islamic forces interaction in West Java, 1945–49
S.M. Kartosuwiryo, famed leader of the long and bloody Darul Islam rebellion which began in West Java in 1948, was a strong supporter of the Indonesian independence struggle and a champion of the Indonesian Republic proclaimed in 1945. This article seeks to understand how it was that Kartosuwiryo came to oppose that very Republic with such violence in 1948–49. Many scholars have sought to explain the origins of the Darul Islam movement in terms o…
A note on the sources for the 1945 constitutional debates in Indonesia
A close examination of the papers held in the archive of Mr A.K. Pringgodigdo in the Nationaal Archief in The Hague indicates that Muhammad Yamin, presumably for the purpose of his own self-aggrandisement, changed important sections of the original text in his 1959-60 edition of the 1945 constitutional debates in Indonesia. Furthermore, the New Order’s efforts to reduce the legacy and legitimacy of Soekarno led Nugroho Notosusanto, in particular,…
Clifford Geertz, 1926-2006
Clifford Geertz was best known for his pioneering excursions into symbolic or in terpretive anthropology, especially in relation to Indonesia. Less well recognised are his stimulating explorations of the modern economic history of Indonesia. His thinking on the interplay of economics and culture was most fully and vigorously expounded in Agricultural Involution. That book deployed a succinctly packaged past in order to solve a pressing contempora…
The Rijksarcnief's Holdings and the Writing of Java's Local Social History
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Briefly noted
D. Drakakis–Smith, Urbanisation, Housing and the Development Process, Croom–;Helm, London, 1981. 234 pp., illustr., bibliog., index. Cloth: $15.95. W. Poussard, Today is a Real Day – Indochinese Refugees in Australia, Dove Communications, Melbourne, 1981. 133 pp., illust. Paper: n.p.g. M.W. Norris, Local Government in Peninsular Malaysia, Gower Publishing, Westmead, Hants. (UK), 1980. 121pp. $22.50. N. Mulder, Everyday Life in Thailand: An Interp…
Sugar Factory Workers and the Emergence of 'Free Labour' in Nineteenth-Century Java
The Cultivation System, introduced by the Dutch in Java in 1830, was grounded on peasant coercion. Capitalizing on the colonial government's ability to force peasants to produce large, cheap and regular quantities of tropical agricultural goods and to labour unrelentingly at a great variety of other tasks, the System succeeded in its aim of transforming Java from a financial millstone around Holland's neck into a highly profitable resource. Coerc…
The politics of colonial exploitation
Colonial Production in Provincial Java
Power and Prosperity
The outline of village social structure sketched in the opening chapter characterised it in terms of personal ties with both a horizontal orientation — kin and kin, neighbour and neighbour — and a vertical one, attachment to beaded series of patrons within and especially outside the village. In many places, it was the component hamlets of villages — dusun in Java, thon in Vietnam, for example — rather than the village as such which were the local…
The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia
This book analyses the changing context and conditions of production and livelihood amongst Southeast Asia's peasants since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that with demographic gro
Constructing the nation
This article examines the ways in which some early twentieth-century Indonesian thinkers conceptualised the state they had so recently imagined, and particularly how they attacked the vast problem of accommodating ethnic difference within the framework of that new state. Notwithstanding the highly promising beginnings of Indonesian self-appreciation in the early twentieth century and an extraordinarily successful cooptation and, as necessary, sub…
Indonesia and the West
The relationship between Indonesia and the West has always been deeply ambivalent. On the one hand, Indonesia, since it began its search for modernity a century or so ago, has always felt a deep attraction for things Western, which promised technological mastery and economic success which might overcome the humiliation of colonial subjection. On the other hand, Indonesians were wary that any engagement that ran too deep and uncritically might pre…
Islam, Islamism, the Nation, and the Early Indonesian Nationalist Movement
In an attempt to understand better the failure of Islamism to exercise any significant impact on the trajectory of Indonesian politics through the twentieth century, this article examines the development of Indonesian Islamist thought in the early twentieth century and compares it to the growth of secularist nationalist thinking. Islamist thinking was slow to arrive at a consciousness of Indonesia as specific national place and homeland. By t…
Clifford Geertz, 1926-2006
Clifford Geertz was best known for his pioneering excursions into symbolic or in terpretive anthropology, especially in relation to Indonesia. Less well recognised are his stimulating explorations of the modern economic history of Indonesia. His thinking on the interplay of economics and culture was most fully and vigorously expounded in Agricultural Involution. That book deployed a succinctly packaged past in order to solve a pressing contempora…
Nationalism, Islam, ‘secularism’ and the state in contemporary Indonesia
This article seeks to explain the impact of Muslim politics on the Indonesian nation and, in particular, why Islamism has found so little political traction. It argues that Islamist ideas were late in emerging in modern Indonesia, and long remained marginal to Indonesians' ideas of what their nation should be and do. It notes, however, that Indonesia's deepening Islamisation has resulted in a sense of growing sectarianism and a developing accommo…
Why did Kartosuwiryo start shooting? An account of Dutch–Republican–Islamic forces interaction in West Java, 1945–49
S.M. Kartosuwiryo, famed leader of the long and bloody Darul Islam rebellion which began in West Java in 1948, was a strong supporter of the Indonesian independence struggle and a champion of the Indonesian Republic proclaimed in 1945. This article seeks to understand how it was that Kartosuwiryo came to oppose that very Republic with such violence in 1948–49. Many scholars have sought to explain the origins of the Darul Islam movement in terms o…
A note on the sources for the 1945 constitutional debates in Indonesia
A close examination of the papers held in the archive of Mr A.K. Pringgodigdo in the Nationaal Archief in The Hague indicates that Muhammad Yamin, presumably for the purpose of his own self-aggrandisement, changed important sections of the original text in his 1959-60 edition of the 1945 constitutional debates in Indonesia. Furthermore, the New Order’s efforts to reduce the legacy and legitimacy of Soekarno led Nugroho Notosusanto, in particular,…
Two Failed Attempts to Islamize the Indonesian Constitution
In 1945 Indonesian politicians endeavouring to create a constitution for their hoped-for Indonesian state engaged in heated debate about the place of Islam in that state. However, the compromise at which they arrived, the famous “seven words” of the Jakarta Charter, was abruptly erased on 18 August, the day after the independence proclamation, by the committee charged with finalizing and validating the Constitution. Subsequently, there have been …
End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia
Sovereignty and the Sea
Until the mid-1950s nearly all of the sea between the far-flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago was open to ships of all nations, but in 1957, the Indonesian government declared that it had absolute sovereignty over all the waters lying within straight baselines drawn between the outermost islands of Indonesia. In this single step, Indonesia made its lands and seas a unified entity for the first time, a claim formally recognized in 1982 by …
Asian Studies and History (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works)