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This is superinteresting, prior 1856 all newspaper written in Dutch. The growth of press would not have been possible without Chinese subscriber. Its align that In Maluku 1536, the language that already used is Melayu

Mangunwijaya considered moderate

Driyarkara

Interesting, Corruption increase after 1998

Interesting, "As Soeharto distanced himself from his former Christian backers, corruption became systemic and the national debt unsupportable"

Bali only covered in very short pages

Super strange "Sociologist Jamie Mackie says that East Java is more urbanized than the other provinces of Indonesia"

Cultural area (rural agrarian folk culture) is not a significant difference than urban industrial elite (Surabaya, Malang, Jember)

All of religion against contraception

Interesting, minority tend to support government program

Indonesia patriarchi is started in late period, traditionally Indonesian is matriarchi e.g case of first Javanese women adopter in Salatiga

What makes this book difficult to read is instead doing in chronological, this book written in topical

1527, the year hindu budha collapse

Syncretism makes things more complicated e.g Madrais religion

Interesting, in west java, Islamic identity is very deeply rooted, although knowledge and practice not really very deep, but islam as cultural identity is very strong.

Interesting, I never realize of this revival, eg. Concordat of 1801

This is what I want to say "planned vs spontaneous" just same like "deliberate vs emerging", none of this true, we never trully know what happen in the past, but most likely is emerging/spontaneous school of thought always right

Interesting that in 1800s, Sumatra become dollar-land for western enterprise. Nothing change 200 years later.

If Sumatra was important, but why its explain in the later chapter

Nobody exactly know what happen in the past, this book is basically a theory, an argument of what happen in the past.

Ambon violence is very complex