BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE INDONESIAN NATIONAL REVOLUTION (1945 - 1950)

  • Abdullah, Taufik. Indonesia: Towards Democracy. ISEAS, 2009.

    Abeyasekere, Susan. “Partai Indonesia Raja, 1936-42: A study in cooperative nationalism.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 3 (1972): 262-76.

    Abeyasekere, Susan. One hand clapping: Indonesian nationalists and the Dutch, 1939-1942. Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1976.

    Adler, Bruni. Prikkeldraad en bamboesperen: Oogetuigen van oorlog en dekolonisatie in Indonesië. Walbrug Press, 2021.

    Agung, Ide Anak Agung Gde. ‘Renville’ als keerpunt in de Nederlands-Indonesische onderhandelingen. Sitjhoff, 1980.

    Agung, Ide Anak Agung Gde. From the Formation of the State of East Indonesia towards the Establishment of the United States of Indonesia. Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia, 1996.

    Aidit, D. N. “Menudju Indonesia Baru.” In Pilihan Tulisan, vol. 1, 91-124. Pembaruan, 1959.

    Aidit, D.N. The Indonesian Revolution and the Immediate Tasks of the Communist Party of Indonesia. Foreign Language Press, 1964.

    Aidit, D.N. Kibarkan Tinggi Pandji Revolusi! Jajasan Pembaruan, 1964.

    Alers, Henri J. H. Om een rode of groene merdeka: 10 jaren binnenlandse politiek, Indonesië 1943-1953. De Pelgrim, 1956.

    Alfarius, Willy. “Barisan Tani Indonesia (BTI) pada Masa Revolusi Indonesia, 1945-1950.” Lembaran Sejarah 19, no. 1 (2023): 78-98.

    Alisjahbana, Sutan Takdir. Indonesian language and literature: Two essays. Southeast Asian Studies Yale University, 1963.

    Alisjahbana, Sutan Takdir. Indonesia: Social and Cultural Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1966.

    Alisjahbana, Sutan Takdir. Polemik Kebudayaan. Edited by Achdiat K. Mihardja. 3rd ed. Balai Pustaka, 1977.

    Anderson, Benedict R. O’G. Some Aspects of Indonesian Politics under the Japanese Occupation: 1944-1945. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1961.

    Bank, Jan. Katholieken en de Indonesische revolutie. 2nd ed. De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1984.

    Benda, Harry J. The Crescent and the Rising Sun: Indonesian Islam under the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945. Van Hoeve, 1958.

    Boland, B.J. The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia. Nijhoff, 1982.

    Bone Jr., Robert C. The Dynamics of the Western New Guinea (Irian Barat) Problem. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1958.

    Bouma, Tjalling. Naar een federaal Indonesië: De geschiedenis van de totstandkoming van de Republiek der Verenigde Staten van Indonesië en de bijdrage van federale ... de Indonesische onafhankelijkheid 1917-1949. Verloren, 2020.

    Bourchier, David. Illiberal Democracy in Indonesia: The Ideology of the Family State. Routledge, 2014.

    Brocades Zaalberg, Thijs, and Bart Luttikhuis. “‘Extreem geweld tijdens dekolonisatieoorlogen in vergelijkend perspectief.” Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden 135, no. 2 (2020): 34-51.

    Burgers, Herman. De garoeda en de ooievaar: Indonesië van kolonie tot nationale staat. KITLV Press, 2010.

    Chaerudin, Entol. Proklamasi 17 Agustus dan pemindahan kekuasaan. N.p., 1973.

    Cribb, Robert. “Political Dimensions of the Currency Question 1945-1947.” Indonesia, no. 31 (April 1981): 113-136.

    Cribb, Robert. “Opium and the Indonesian Revolution.” Modern Asian Studies 22, no. 4 (1988): 701-722.

    Cribb, Robert. “Legacies of the Revolution.” In Democracy in Indonesia, 1950s and 1990s, edited by David Bourchier and John Legge, 74-78. Centre of Southeast Asian Studies Monash University, 1994.

    Cribb, Robert, ed. The Late Colonial State in Indonesia: Political and Economic Foundations of the Netherlands Indies, 1880-1942. KITLV Press, 1994.

    Cribb, Robert. “The Brief Genocide of Eurasians in Indonesia, 1945/46.” In Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, edited by A. Dirk Moses, 424-439. Berghahn Books, 2008.

    Delden, Mary C. van. De republikeinse kampen in Nederlands-Indië, oktober 1945-mei 1947: Orde in de chaos? PhD. Thesis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2007.

    Diah, B. M. Angkatan Baru ‘45: Sejarah Lembaga Perjuangan Pemuda menentang Jepang, mendorong Proklamasi Kemerdekaan Indonesia. Masa Merdeka, 1983.

    Dijk, C. (Kees) van. Rebellion under the Banner of Islam: The Darul Islam in Indonesia. Nijhoff, 1981.

    Djajadiningrat, Idrus Nasir. The Beginnings of the Indonesian-Dutch Negotiations and the Hoge Veluwe Talks. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1958.

    Dokumentasi Pemuda: Sekitar Proklamasi Indonesia Merdeka. Badan Penerangan-Pusat SBPI, 1948.

    Efimova, Larisa M. “Who Gave Instructions to the Indonesian Communist Leader Musso in 1948?” Indonesia and the Malay World 31, no. 90 (July 2003): 171–189.

    Efimova, Larisa M. Stalin i Indonyeziya: Politika SSSR v otnoshenii Indonyezii v 1945–1953 godakh: Nyeizvyestniye Stranitsiy [Stalin and Indonesia: Soviet Policy towards Indonesia, 1945–1953]. Moscow: Moscow State Institute of International Relations, 2004. Review by John Sidel, “From Russia with Love?” Indonesia no. 84 (October 2007): 161-172.

    Elson, Robert. The Idea of Indonesia: A History. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

    Eng, Pierre van der. “Marshall Aid as a Catalyst in the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1947-49.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 19 (1988): 335-352.

    Federspiel, Howard M. Persatuan Islam: Islamic Reform in Twentieth Century Indonesia. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1970.

    Feith, Herbert and Lance Castle, eds. Indonesian Political Thinking, 1945-1965. Cornell University Press, 1970. Republished: Equinox, 2007.

    Finch, Susan and Daniel Lev. Republic of Indonesia Cabinets, 1945-1965. Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1965.

    Hatta, Mohammad. The Putera Reports: Problems in Indonesian-Japanese Wartime Cooperation. Translated by William H. Frederick. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1971.

    Kahin, George M. Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia. Cornell University Press, 1952.

    Kusumabrata, Alvino. “Bagaimana Komunis Indonesia Memandang Proklamasi 17 Agustus 1945.” IndoProgress.com. 14 March 2023. https://indoprogress.com/2023/03/komunis-indonesia-memandang-proklamasi/.

    Legge, J. D. Intellectuals and Nationalism in Indonesia: A Study of the Following recruited by Sutan Sjahrir in Occupied Jakarta. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1988.

    Lockwood, Rupert. Black Armada. Australasian Book Society, 1975.

    McVey, Ruth T. The Soviet View of the Indonesian Revolution. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1957.

    McVey, Ruth T. The Calcutta Conference and the Southeast Asian Uprisings. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1958.

    Musso. “Jalan Baru Untuk Republik Indonesia.” 1948. https://www.marxists.org/indonesia/indones/1948-JalanBaru.htm.

    Poeze, Harry A. PKI Sibar: Persekutuan Aneh Antara Pemerintah Belanda dan Orang Komunis di Australia, 1943-1945. Depok: Komunitas Bambu, 2014.

    Rocamora, J . Eliseo. Nationalism in Search of Ideology: The Indonesian Nationalist Party, 1946-1965. University of the Philippines, Philippine Center for Advanced Studies, 1975. Based on the author’s Ph.D. thesis at Cornell University, 1974.

    Sjahrir, Sutan. Our Struggle. Translated by Benedict R. O’G. Anderson. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1968.

    Soerjono. “On Musso’s Return.” Translated by Benedict Anderson. Indonesia, no. 29 (April 1980): 59-90.

    Supomo, R. The Provisional Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia (With Annotations and Explanations on Each Article). Translated by Garth N. Jones. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1964.

    Toer, Pramoedya Ananta et al., eds. Kronik Revolusi Indonesia. 5 vols. KPG, 1999-2014.

    Zhou, Taomo. Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War. Cornell University Press, 2019.

  • Anderson, Benedict R. O’G. Java in a Time of Revolution: Occupation and Resistance, 1944-1946. Cornell University Press, 1972.

    Aidit, D.N. Aidit Menggugat Peristiwa Madiun: Pembelaan D.N. Aidit dimuka Pengadilan Negeri Djakarta, 24 Februari 1955. Jakarta: Jajasan Pembaruan, 1955. 64 p. The PKI reprinted this book in 1964 and published an English-language translation in 1955.

    Aidit, D.N. Konfrontasi Peristiwa Madiun 1948: Peristiwa Sumatra 1956. Jakarta : Jajasan Pembaruan, 1957. 43 p. The PKI reprinted this text in 1964.

    Anonymous. Berbagai Fakta dan Kesaksian Sekitar “Peristiwa Madiun.” N.p.: Pustaka Pena, c. 2001. This is a collection of essays and documents defending the PKI: S. Suroso, “‘Peristiwa Madiun’ PKI Korban Perdana Perang Dingin”; Sutopo, “Provokasi Madiun”; “Wawancara dengan Sumarsono”; PKI, “Buku Putih tentang Peristiwa Madiun”; and “Aidit Menggugat Peristiwa Madiun.”

    Anonymous. PKI, Korban Perang Dingin: Sejarah Peristiwa Madiun, 1948. N.p.: Era Publisher, 2001.

    Berge, Tom van den. “Indonesisch geweld tegen de burgerbevolking in West-Java, 1945-1949.” Leidschrift 31, no. 3 (2016): 57-77.

    Bussemaker, H. Th. Bersiap: Opstand in het paradijs: De Bersiap-periode op Java en Sumatra 1945-1946. Walburg Pers, 2005.

    Chauvel, Richard. Nationalists, soldiers and separatists: The Ambonese islands from colonialism to revolt 1880-1950. KITLV Press, 1990.

    Cribb, Robert. Gangsters and Revolutionaries: The Jakarta People’s Militia and the Indonesian Revolution, 1945-1949. University of Hawaii Press, 1991.

    Delden, Mary C. van. Bersiap in Bandung: Een onderzoek naar geweld in de periode van 17 augustus 1945 tot 24 maart 1946. Van Delden, 1989.

    Derita, S.P. Lima Minggu Sebelum Madiun Affair. Medan: Toko Buku Sarkawi, c. 1949. 48 p.

    Eckhardt, Pieter, and J. P. Sigmond. Kind in de oorlog: Mohammed Toha schildert Yogyakarta 1948-1949. Rijksmusem, 2009.

    Elson, Robert, and Chiara Formichi. “Why Did Kartosuwiryo Start Shooting? An Account of Dutch-Republican-Islamic Forces Interaction in West Java.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 42 (2011): 458-86.

    Eng, Pierre van der. Food Supply in Java during War and Decolonization, 1940-1950. Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull [MPRA Paper 8852], 1994.

    Engelen, O. E., et al. Lahirnya Satu Bangsa dan Negara. Penerbit Universitas Indonesia, 1997.

    Fakih, Farabi. “The Battle for the Nation and Pemuda Subjectivity: Contradictions in a Revolutionary Capital.” In Revolutionary Worlds. Local Perspectives and Dynamics during the Indonesian Independence War, 1945-1949, edited by Bambang Purwanto et al., 47-74. Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

    Fusayama, Takao. A Japanese Memoir of Sumatra, 1945-1946: Love and Hatred in the Liberation War. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1993.

    Holtzappel, Coen. “The Year 1948 and The Madiun Affairs: A Year of Cheat and Rumors.” Professional Blindness and Missing the Mark: The Historical Analysis of Four Major Crises During the First Two Decades of the Republic of Indonesia. Ed. Coen Holtzappel and Pieter Drooglever. 2008.

    Kreutzer, R. The Madiun Affair: Hatta’s Betrayal of Indonesia’s First Social Revolution. Occasional paper South East Asian Studies Committee, James Cook University of North Queensland, 1981. 44 p.

    Liga Pembela Demokrasi. Rakjat Menggugat: Pemberontakan Partai Komunis Indonesia c.s. di Madiun, tanggal 18 September 1948. Surabaya, 1953. 10 p.

    Lucas, Anton. Peristiwa Tiga Daerah: Revolusi dalam Revolusi. Pustaka Utama Grafiti, 1989.

    Lucas, Anton. Radikalisme Lokal: Oposisi dan Perlawanan terhadap Pendudukan Jepang di Jawa (1942-1945). Syarikat Indonesia, 2012.

    Maksum, Agus Sunyoto, and A. Zainuddin. Lubang-Lubang Pembantaian: Petualangan PKI di Madiun. Jakarta: Grafiti, 1990. 190 p. A collection of articles that had been serialized in the Jawa Pos newspaper.

    Marboen, Moela. Gerakan Operasi Militer untuk Menumpas Pemberontakan Madiun. Jakarta: Mega Bookstore, c. 1965. 16 p.

    Marsudi, Djamal. Menjingkap Tabir Fakta-Fakta Pemberontakan P.K.I. dalam Peristiwa Madiun. Djakarta: Merdeka Press, 1966.

    McGregor, Katharine E. “A Reassessment of the Significance of the 1948 Madiun Uprising to the Cold War in Indonesia.” Kajian Malaysia 27, no. 1 &2 (2009), 85-119.

    Mirajadi. “Tiga Tahun Provokasi Madiun.” Bintang Merah, August-September, 1951.

    National Federation of Kenpeitai Veterans’ Associations (Zenkoku Ken'yūkai Rengōkai Hensan Iinkai). The Kenpeitai in Java and Sumatra (Selections from Nihon Kenpei Seishi). Translated by Barbara Gifford Shimer and Guy Hobbs. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1986.

    Notosutarjo, Akhmad. Peristiwa Madiun, Tragedi Nasional. Endang, 1966.

    Onghokham. “Pemberontakan Madiun.” Prisma (1978).

    Partai Komunis Indonesia. Buku Putih tentang Peristiwa Madiun. Jakarta: Departemen Agitprop-PKI, 1954. 32 p.

    Pelzer, Karl. “The Agrarian Conflict in East Sumatra.” Pacific Affairs 30, no. 2 (June 1957): 151-214.

    Pelzer, Karl. Planters Against Peasants: The Agrarian Struggle of East Sumatra, 1947-1958. Martinus Nijhoff, 1982. Indonesian translation: Sengketa Agraria: Pengusaha Perkebunan Melawan Petani. Sinar Harapan, 1991.

    Pinardi. Peristiwa Coup Berdarah P.K.I., September 1948 di Madiun; Sebuah Case-study tentang Proloog-Peristiwa-Epiloog dan Beberapa Analisa tentang Sebab dan Akibat Pemberontakan P.K.I.-Musso jang Dilakukan terhadap Pemerintah Republik Indonesia jang Sah pada Bulan September 1948. Djakarta, Inkopak-Hazera, c. 1967. 176 p.

    Poeze, Harry A. “The Cold War in Indonesia, 1948.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40, no. 3 (October 2009): 497-517.

    Poeze, Harry A. Madiun 1948: PKI Bergerak. Jakarta: Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia, 2011.

    Setiawan, Hersri. Negara Madiun? Kesaksian Soemarsono, Pelaku Perjuangan. N.p.: Forum Studi Perubahan dan Peradaban, 2002.

    Simatupang, T. B. Report from Banaran: Experiences During the People’s War. Translated by Benedict Anderson and Elizabeth Graves. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1972.

    Smail, John R. W. Bandung in the Early Revolution, 1945-1946. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1964.

    Soe Hok Gie. Orang-Orang di Persimpangan Kiri Jalan. Yogyakarta: Bentang Budaya, 1997; reprint 2005. This book is the author’s thesis written at University of Indonesia in 1969 with the title, “Simpang Kiri dari Sebuah Jalan: Kisah Pemberontakan Madiun September 1948.” The precocious 21-year old author passed away in December 1969, only months after submitting the thesis.

    Soejatno. “Revolution and Social Tensions in Surakarta 1945-1950.” Translated by Benedict Anderson. Indonesia, no. 17 (April 1974): 99-111. Indonesian title: “Feodalisme dan Revolusi di Surakarta 1945-1950.” Prisma 7 (July 1978).

    Soemarsono. Revolusi Agustus: Kesaksian Seorang Pelaku Sejarah. Jakarta: Hasta Mitra, 2008. This book is based on Soemarsono’s public lectures and interviews in Europe and Indonesia in 2002. A team of writers of the Indonesian exile community in Europe wrote and edited the text.

    Soetanto, Himawan. Perintah Presiden Soekarno: ‘Rebut Kembali Madiun’: Siliwangi Menumpas Pemberontakan PKI/Moeso 1948. Jakarta: Pustaka Sinar Harapan, 1994.

    Soetanto, Himawan. Madiun dari Republik ke Republik: Aspek Militer Pembrontakan PKI di Madiun, 1948. Jakarta: Kata, 2006.

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    Suratmin. Kronik Peristiwa Madiun: PKI 1948. Mantrijeron, Yogyakarta: Mata Padi Pressindo; Jagakarsa, Jakarta : Didistribusikan oleh Suka Buku, 2012.

    Suryomenggolo, Jafar. Organising under the Revolution: Unions and the State in Java, 1945-1948. NUS Press, 2015.

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    Wahyudi, Sarjana Sigit. Ketika Sarbupri Mengguncang Pabrik Karung Delanggu 1948: Sebuah Studi Awal dari Pemberontakan PKI Madiun. 2001.

    Zed, Mestika. Kepialangan Politik dan Revolusi: Palembang 1900-1950. LP3ES, 2003.

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    Crouch, Harold. The Army and Politics in Indonesia. Cornell University Press, 1978. Republished with new preface and epilogue: Equinox, 2007. Indonesian translation: Militer dan Politik Indonesia. Sinar Harapan, 1999.

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    (Excessennota) Nota betreffende het archiefonderzoek naar de gegevens omtrent excessen in Indonesië begaan door Nederlandse militairen in de periode 1945-1950. With an introduction by Jan Bank. Sdu Uitgeverij, 1995.

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    Salim, Leon. Prisoners at Kota Cane. Translated by Audrey R. Kahin. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1986.

    Siswoyo (author) and Andreas Joko Waskito (compiler), Siswoyo Dalam Pusaran Arus Sejarah Kiri: Memoar Anggota Sekretariat CC PKI. Bandung: Ultimus, 2015.

    Soewito, Irna. Chairul Saleh: Tokoh Kontroversial. Mutiara Rachmat, 1993.

    Suryadarma, Utami. Saya, Soeriadi, dan Tanah Air. Edited by Imedla Bachtiar. Yayasan Bung Karno, 2012.