Book Reviews

In this volume the emphasis is on trade statistics only, which were well documented in successive colonial statistical publications, and summarised in several of the pre-war compilations of data prepared by W.M.F. Mansvelt. [...]the volume covers material with which students of colonial Indonesian economic history are probably largely familiar, although it is still of great value to have all the data between two covers and annotated to the high standard we have come to expect from this series. [...]of Mataram's division in the mid-18th century and the dispersion of power and authority to the two kraton, Surakarta Adiningrat (Kasunanan) and Ngayogyakarta Adiningrat (Kasultanan), as well as to the two 'minor' courts, the pura Mangku Nagaran and Paku Alaman, during the 19th and 20th centuries, these dances branched into a variable genre of ceremonial group dances. According to Laderman, the Main Peteri develops as a 'social drama' (a term adapted from Victor W. Turner's work on rituals), with the shaman and his troupe of musicians, the patient, the audience and the various invoked spirits as the actors. Apart from oil, in the last few decades timber has established itself as yet another major commodity in East Kalimantan. Because of the huge economic, political and environmental stakes involved, this matter is up until the present day a hot issue, not in the last place as this section is dominated by army-backed peranakan Chinese businessmen such as Bob Hasan (and recently Prayogo Pangestu, who is not mentioned in this book).