The materiality of writing has major implications for the practice of history...When you look at a ‘medieval’ Javanese manuscript, it is almost always an 18th or 19th century copy of a copy of a copy ... and so on.
The materiality of writing has major implications for the practice of history...When you look at a ‘medieval’ Javanese manuscript, it is almost always an 18th or 19th century copy of a copy of a copy ... and so on.
A critical reflection on the emergence, dominance and legacy of Java’s historic ‘empire’.
Writing history in the Indian Ocean world was the result of a complex interplay of global norms and local conditions of textual production.
A commentary on the Sufi poem of the peculiar whale, by the 16th-century Malay poet Hamzah of Barus.
Hamzah of Barus was the foremost Malay poet of the 16th century, whose work draws deeply from Sufi imagery and philosophy.
A historically-focussed review of the AGNSW's Passion + Procession: Art of the Philippines exhibition.
This article explores the life and career of one of Java's great premodern leaders: the 16th-century queen of Jepara.
Conspiracy theories about the past reveal important obstacles and opportunities for history education in Indonesia.
"An encounter between Australian Indonesianists and Indonesian Australianists offers fruitful avenues for both countries
Indonesia's most important writer tells the youth to take control of the nation's future.