1.SOIL AND SEED 1
The Indies in 1900 1
Kartini's Resentment 6
2.LOYAL WESTERNIZATION 10
3.THE EMERGENCE OF RACE 17
4.EDUCATION FOR DISCONTENT 24
Non-Co-operation 24
Unemployment for the Educated 27
5.THE END OF AN ERA 31
The Beginnings of Economic Self-Sufficiency 31
Change in the European Community 33
Extremism 35
Japan 38
6.JAPAN IN OCCUPATION 41
7.THE RETURN OF THE DUTCH 46
The British in Control 46
The Dutch Take Over 53
8.SOVEREIGNTY COMES TO INDONESIA 59
Arms versus Diplomacy 59
The Hague Agreement 70
9.INDONESIAN-NETHERLANDS LINKS UNDER STRAIN 73
Republicans Supreme 73
Western New Guinea Claimed 80
10.THE END OF THE HAGUE AGREEMENT 85
The Jungschlager Trial 85
Dissident Movements 89
Abrogation of the Union Statute 93
11.THE FINAL RUPTURE 97
12.THE WESTERN NEW GUINEA DISPUTE 111
Indonesia and the Netherlands 111
Australia and Western New Guinea 124
Beginning of the End? 127
13.SOME CAUSES CONSIDERED 138
Imperialist Comparisons 138
Irrational Policies 142
Parliamentary Systems 145
14.INTERNAL DISORDERS 149
Economic Decline 149
Political Divisions 151
Javanese versus Non-Javanese 153
Jobless Educated 159
Revolt and Suppression 160
15.EXTERNAL SYMPTOMS 168
Anti-Dutch Sentiment as a Weapon 168
Measures against the Chinese 170
Industrialization of the Javanese as a Remedy 179
BOOKS ON INDONESIA 184
INDEX 187