Inside Indonesian Society by Niels Mulder

Awesome book by an anthropologist.

I love anthropologists.

Twilight in Djakarta by Mochtar Lubis

Another one of those left-wing books about corruption, poverty and politics.

Pulp Fiction Indonesian style.

A History of Modern Indonesia by Adrian Vickers

It really needed an editor and some kind of narrative arc or point.

The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch

The first Australian fiction I've read since Tsiolkas's deplorable Dead Europe and I gotta say I liked it.

Quite entertaining and informative, although the idiosyncratic use of colons and semi-colons was a little strange.

In the Time of Madness by Richard Lloyd Parry

Finally, someone writes in the past tense. Good writer, but I would have preferred something more journalistic and less memoir-like.