Wikipedia:WikiProject Indonesia/Resources

Always use reliable sources to write an article. This is important to support the three pillars of Wikipedia: verifiable, neutral point of view and no elements of original research.

Here are lists of reliable Indonesia-related sources and public-domain images/maps, compiled by the project members. Please read WP:CITE for guidelines of citing and inline citing the sources.

• Antara (Indonesian State News Agency)
• Jakarta Globe
• Jakarta Post
• Tempo Magazine
• RRI (State Radio of Indonesia) (inactive)
• InsideIndonesia - news digests, online prints since issue #46.

Journals are mostly access through personal or via institution-based subscription.

History and Social Studies

Journals

Books

• Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. (1972). Java in a Time of Revolution. Icatha and London: Cornell University Press. p. 495.

A classic text on Indonesian National Revolution

• Cribb, Robert (1991). Gangster and Revolutionaries: The Jakarta People's Militia and the Indonesian Revolution 1945-1949. Sydney, Australia: ASSA Southeast Asian Publications Series - Allen and Unwin. ISBN 0-04-301296-5.
• Frederick, William H. (1988). Visions and Heat: The Making of the Indonesian Revolution. Ohio University Press. pp. 324 pages. ISBN 0-8214-0906-9.

Detailed analysis and interpretations of the most intense phase of the Indonesian revolution - August-November 1945. With considerable focus on Surabaya.

• Friend, Theodore. Indonesian Destinies. The Belknap Press of Harvard University. pp. 628 pages. ISBN 0-674-01834-6.

...uses a wealth of contemporary Indonesian contacts to paint a lively historical, sociological, anthropological and at times gossipy portrait of the country...".

• George, Margaret (1980). Australia and the Indonesian Revolution. Melbourne University Press. pp. 220 pages. ISBN 0-522-84209-7.
• McMillan, Richard. The British Occupation of Indonesia 1945-1946. ISBN 0-415-35551-6.

Throrough account of British Occupation following WW2: From blurb: "Contrary to previous studies, this book demonstratese that the [British] occupation was neither exclusively pro-Dutch or pro-Indonesian; nor was it the orderly affair portrayed in the British official histories."

Traces story of the People's Militia of Greater Jakarta during the Indoneian National Revolution, and examines social basis of the Indonesian revolution

• Reid, Anthony (1974). The Indonesian National Revolution 1945-1950. Melbourne: Longman Australia Pty Limited. pp. 193 pages. ISBN 0-582-71046-4.
• Southall, Ivan (1964). Indonesia Face to Face. Melbourne: Lansdowne Press. pp. 251 pages.

Account of Australian volunteer living in Indonesia in the last years of Sukarno's rule 1964-65.

• Taylor, Jean Gelman (2003). Indonesia: Peoples and History. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10518-5.

General History - main focus up to 1945'

• Vickers, Adrian (2005). A History of Modern Indonesia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-54262-6.

A general History from c.1870

Earth Science, Geography, Volcanology

Never to be used as a primary information source - but the two mentioned here as useful for a printed off-line compendium of place names and tourist information - useful to check any spurious web-sites or their claims about locations.

• Lonely Planet has the Indonesia guide book is currently up to its 8th edition.
• Indonesia Handbook was the 1980s predecessor to the Lonely Planet guide book. Dated - but good for checking information.

• International Crisis Group — deadly regional conflicts. Indonesia section
• Global Forest Watch: Indonesia — forest status, forest maps, vegetations.
• The Nature Conservacy in Indonesia

Public domain

• Commons:Category:Indonesia - collections of free Indonesian images. Please put a newly uploaded Indonesia image under this category or sub-category to have better organization.
• Flickr CC BY 2.0 license
• Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 license
• Public-domain maps from Univ. Texas - mostly historical old ones.
• Memory of the Netherlands - collection of Indonesia historical images, some with expired copyrights.
• Stichting Volkenkundige Collectie Nederland - collection of Indonesia historical images, some with expired copyrights.

Government sources

• President of Indonesia website - Images can be freely used given attribution according to the terms and conditions, but all content is in Indonesian.
• Photos from the National Library of Indonesia - All images have cited sources. Images created by the government are public domain. Content is in Indonesian.

• General public-domain resources
• General public-domain image resources
• Blank maps