The discovery of Indonesia; Western (non-Dutch) historiography on the decolonization of Indonesia

[...]it echoes a Dutch Communist Party slogan that was widely popularized between the two World Wars ('Indies independence from the Netherlands now'), which summarized the party's standpoint on the status of the then Dutch East Indies in rather a provocative way. Mortimer published on Indonesian communism under Sukarno (Mortimer 1974), while Reid, who is currently affiliated with the ANU in Canberra, produced a number of historical works on social change in Northern Sumatra in the period from the Aceh war to the short-lived Republik Sumatera in the fifties. [...]he was one of the first authors to break with the Java-centric trend in historical studies. [...]to Indonesia in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (Boxer's studies on the VOC period, and Peter Carey's publications on the Java war), contemporary Indonesian history has hardly received attention from British scholars. From this cole and a number of other institutions the present Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales emanated. Besides this institute, the important centre of agricultural studies at Montpellier, which has specializations in tropical agriculture and forestry, offers courses in Asian studies in these fields.