...Colin Brown Sjahrir: Politics and Exile in Indonesia . By Rudolf Mrazek . Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University , 1994 . x, 526 pp. $24.25 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 862 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES discounting...

...Harry A. Poeze Intellectuals and Nationalism in Indonesia: A Study of the Following Recruited by Sutan Sjahrir in Occupation Jakarta . By J. D. Legge . Cornell Modern Indonesia Project Monograph Series. Ithaca : Cornell University, Modern Indonesia Project , 1988 . x , 159 pp...

... find truth in saying the same about the entire Vietnam War. JAMES I. MATRAY New Mexico State University Sjahrir: Politics and Exile in Indonesia. By R U D O L F M R A Z E K . Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1994. x, 526 pp. $24.25 (paper). Sutan Sjahrir was and remains one...

...A. E. Sokol Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1949 1949 Out of exile . By Soetan Sjahrir . Translated, with an Introduction, by Charles Wolf Jr. New York : The John Day Company , 1949 . xxii, 265 p. $3.00. BOOK REVIEWS 101 that the Mongols "burst upon...

... 679 After introducing Sjahrir's postwar political activities and thought, Legge examines his followers. In the early 1980s Legge interviewed twenty-seven surviving members of the Sjahrir circle, which once numbered about forty or fifty. He records details of the student scene in wartime Jakarta...

... the republic. There are two points concerning the political organization of the republic which should be mentioned. It is incorrect to describe Sjahrir's cabinets as "coalition cabinets." He consistently refused to head such cabinets, maintaining that "coalition cabinets mean coalition policy." Sjahrir's...

... 863 But toward the end of his life, his intellectual powers seem to have been in decline. He no longer read the latest books, preferring instead to return to older and more familiar ones. For many western observers, Sjahrir came to be seen as a man too westernized for the Indonesian political scene...

... Malaysian communities. SHARON A. CARSTENS Portland State University Intellectuals and Nationalism in Indonesia: A Study of the Following Recruited by Sutan Sjahrir in Occupation Jakarta. By J . D . LEGGE. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project Monograph Series. Ithaca: Cornell University, Modern Indonesia Project...

... forces operating within the republic. There are two points concerning the political organization of the republic which should be mentioned. It is incorrect to describe Sjahrir's cabinets as "coalition cabinets." He consistently refused to head such cabinets, maintaining that "coalition cabinets mean...

... will of course be that of fitting them into the larger pattern of events. For this he will either have to turn back to the book by Dr. Weigh, search through the literature on the subject, or await the appearance of a definitive study. JOHN ALBERT WHITE University of Hawaii Out of exile. BY SOETAN SJAHRIR...

... written on the Revolution notably Mochtar Lubis, Chairil Anwar, and Idrus. In a second essay, Foulcher attempts to reconstruct Angkatan 45, the writers who comprised the generation of the Revolution. He traces its ancestry to the nationalists led by Sjahrir in the 1930s, whose secular humanism sought...

... of concurrent decolonization movements elsewhere in Asia. The starkest image that emerges is the isolation of the two principal negotiators, Sutan Sjahrir for the Republican government and H. J. Van Mook for the Netherlands, as they bargained together in many ways far closer to each other in their perceptions...

... was to plague Indonesian politics throughout the revolutionary period. The former wished to make independence appear a gift of the Japanese; Sjahrir, on the contrary, hoped that independence might be wrested to coincide with Japan's capitulation and thus be considered as a direct result of the Allied victory...

... was to plague Indonesian politics throughout the revolutionary period. The former wished to make independence appear a gift of the Japanese; Sjahrir, on the contrary, hoped that independence might be wrested to coincide with Japan's capitulation and thus be considered as a direct result of the Allied victory...

... historically and sociologically unexplored, thereby preserving the haziness of our understanding of the form and outlines of Indonesia as a whole. Two preliminary acknowledgments suggest important motivations behind the writing of this book. One is to the late Sutan Sjahrir who, together with Mohammad Hatta...

... Sjahrir, the other former prime minister included in the volume, would have been well advised to narrow his treatment to his stated focus Sjahrir and the failure of Indonesian Socialism. Instead, he becomes bogged down in attempting not only a survey of the whole of Sjahrir's life, but also a recounting...

... dignity.” The Voice of Free Indonesia , April 27, 1946 , p. 3 . Compare also Sjahrir's Onze Strijd (Djakarta, 1946), pp. 5–8. 5 See the pronouncement of the former Lieutenant-Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies, van Mook H. J. , Indonesie, Nederland en de wereld...

...Donald C. Gordon BOOK REVIEWS 231 responsible parliamentary cabinet system dominated by Sjahrir was not instituted merely as a concession to the demands of the diplomatic situation, Sjahrir being more acceptable to the Dutch than Sukarno. Certainly an equally important, if not much more decisive...

.... The review of the current political and economic events comprises part A, and consists of two papers by Sjahrir on the Indonesian Economy and by William Liddle BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 905 on Politics, 1992-93. This section presents the reader with roughly 30 pages of condensed, detailed discussion...

... by no longer being willing to settle for their earlier goals. He cites Sjahrir's June 7, 1947, letter as evidence that the Republic was unwilling to cooperate with the Netherlands, in contravention of the Linggajati Agreement. This view was apparently held by the Dutch negotiators, but in embracing it de Jong...