The article is focused on early colonial interaction with the Aru Islands, geographically
located in southern Maluku, at the easternmost end of the Indian Ocean world. The study …

The present study focuses on a set of events in the Aru Islands, Maluku, in the late
eighteenth century which are documented in some detail by Dutch records. A violent …

The people of Aru are robust people who are not industrious. They are heathen but not at all
religious, and they do not have idols like in Kei or Tanimbar, and no public gathering places …

This article examines the struggle of the Aru Islands community to preserve their forests and
their natural environment in the shape of the “Save Aru” social movement from 2013 to 2015 …

The article analyses early European knowledge about Belu, a historical region in Central
Timor which, although “belonging” mostly to the Dutch colonial sphere, still had a position of …

An anthropological literature dealing with conflict such as has afflicted Indonesia in recent
years is beginning to emerge. The present article is one of a series dealing with different …

The Aru Islands in southeastern Maluku have a long history of economic exchange and
colonial relations with the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and later the Dutch colonial …

ANTROPOLOGI INDONESIA Special Volume, 2004 refugee flows that bourgeoned in the
wake of the riots, describing the attempts of those displaced to adapt to new places and new …

A neglected episode in West Malaysia's subaltern history illustrates how simplistic Western
notions of peace—and consequently, of surrender and resistance—can be. In the case of …

Edward Said's works have been instructive in helping to understand the expanding
influence of the West over the Orient, and the increasing apprehension this caused within …