Borneo Research Bulletin articles from January 1 1999

Borneo Research Bulletin archives from January 1 1999

Notes from the editor.
January 1, 1999... The present issue, once again, reflects the wide-ranging interests of our readers. It also marks the first appearance of several new contributors to the BRB and gives welcomed prominence to Kalimantan. Included in this volume is also a report...

Roland (Ro) Bewsher, O.B.E. (Memorials).(missionary)(Obituary)
January 1, 1999... 1910-1998 The death of Ro Bewsher in Pialba, Queensland, Australia on 15 November 1998 severed one of the few remaining pre-World War Two links between Sarawak and the Borneo Evangelical Mission (BEM), his service with the BEM having begun...

Kalimantaan. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... C.S. Godshalk, Kalimantaan. New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc, 1998, ISBN 0-8050-5333-9. Plundering the Archives for a Good Story Let me begin with an anecdote. At a party I am listening to an acquaintance talk about the...

A Life Twice Lived: A Memoir. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... Tan Sri Datuk Amar Stephen K. T. Yang. A Life Twice Lived: A Memoir. Kuala Lumpur: Published by the author, 1998. ISBN 983-99457-0-X, 283 page.[available from Borneo Adventure Sdn. Bhd, 55 Main Bazaar, 93000 Kuching, Sarawak, fax 60 82 422 626]...

Masa Jepun. Sarawak Under the Japanese 1941-1945. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... Bob Reece. Masa Jepun. Sarawak Under the Japanese 1941-1945. Kuching: Sarawak Literary Society, 1998, ISBN 983 9115 06 5, large format (A4), pp. xix + 254, illus. This is a very welcome book. The Japanese Occupation in Sarawak has been...

Sarawak. The Rajah's Officers, 1841-1946. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... W. Batty-Smith MBE. Sarawak. The Rajah's Officers, 1841-1946. Nigel Batty-Smith, Charnage Wiltshire, UK, ISBN 0-9535722 0 X, 1999, i + pp. 104, map. L15 This little volume is certain to be useful to anyone seriously interested in Sarawak's...

Temputn: Myths of the Benuaq and Tunjung Dayaks & Ilmu: Magic and Divination amongst the Benuaq and Tunjung Dayak. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... Michael Hopes, Madrah and Karaakng, Temputn: Myths of the Benuaq and Tunjung Dayaks. 167 pp. Published by PUSPA SWARA and the Rio Tinto Foundation. Jakarta, 1997. Michael Hopes, Ilmu: Magic and Divination amongst the Benuaq and Tunjung...

Pemahaman adaptasi masyarakat transmigran: pendekan antropologi ekologi. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Abdoellah, Oekan Soekotjo. 1997, Pemahaman adaptasi masyarakat transmigran: pendekan antropologi ekologi, Prisma, 26, no. 7. So far there have been few anthropological studies of the way in which transmigrants adapt themselves to their new...

Asian roots of Malagasy: a linguistic perspective. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Adelaar, Alexander. 1995, Asian roots of Malagasy: a linguistic perspective. Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 151 (3): 325-356. This article gives an overview of developments in the study of the linguistic history of Malagasy....

The enigma of the Apo Kayan: megalithic sculptures and sarcophagi in the Apo Kayan area (study of a journey to the south-east of the Apo Kayan in July-August 1994). (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Baier, Martin. 1995, The enigma of the Apo Kayan: megalithic sculptures and sarcophagi in the Apo Kayan area (study of a journey to the south-east of the Apo Kayan in July-August 1994), IN: Victor T. King and A.V.M. Horton, eds., From Buckfast...

Bapak Guru Orang Bisaya. A Pioneer in Social Experimentation in Sarawak: Ro Bewsher, 1910-1998. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... Vernon L. Porritt. Bapak Guru Orang Bisaya. A Pioneer in Social Experimentation in Sarawak: Ro Bewsher, 1910-1998. Special Issue of the Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull, ISBN 0-903122-08-1, 1999, iv + pp. 52. Dr....

Environmental Challenges in South-East Asia. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... Environmental Challenges in South-East Asia, edited by Victor T. King. (1998) Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, Man and Nature Series, No. 2. Richmond: Curzon Press This volume is the product of a session held at the 1995 conference of...

Borneo. Jewel in a Jade Rainbow, Letters and Legends from North Borneo Sabah. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... David and Sue Fielding. Borneo. Jewel in a Jade Rainbow, Letters and Legends from North Borneo Sabah. Koisaan Cultural Development Institute, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 1998, xiv + 444, photos and maps. Historian friends tell me that it is...

Sarawak news. (Borneo News).
January 1, 1999... A Rhododendron specimen (R. verticillatum) from Maureen Warwick's expedition to Gunung Mulu in 1990 has flowered in Edinburgh. The Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak Second Lauraceae Workshop was held in KEP, 23-28 November 1998, and...

Berau Forest Management Project. (Borneo News).
January 1, 1999... Ms. S. Bodesgom and Mr. P.B. Pelser (Leiden) are studying seedlings of secondary forest trees in East Kalimantan (Batu Ampar, Berau, Sangatta), with around 1000 specimens collected. Dr. P.J.A. Kessler carried out a 60-day consultancy for the...

Taxon. (Regional News).
January 1, 1999... Mr. R.C.K. Chung (KEP) is continuing his PhD research on Peninsular Malaysian and Bornean species of Grewia and Microcos. Both genera can be distinguished by their gross vegetative and reproductive characters, stomata, wood anatomy, and pollen...

Archive of 1971-74 and 1985-89 oral literature projects in Sarawak. (Brief Communications).
January 1, 1999... Noted here is the acquisition by Cornell University's Kroch Library, The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, in cooperation with the John M. Echols Collection, of materials titled "Archive of Carol Rubenstein in Sarawak, East...

Swinging into the global music scene at the Rainforest World Music Festival, Kuching, Sarawak. (Brief Communications).
January 1, 1999... For the past two years, the Sarawak Cultural Village, just outside of Kuching, has hosted the Rainforest World Music Festival, an event uniting local musicians with international "world music" recording artists in a weekend of performances and...

Masa Jepun. (Brief Communications).
January 1, 1999... About a year ago I purchased a copy of Masa Jepun by Bob Reece. I found it most interesting and the author had obviously carried out a great deal of research. There are, however, certain points in Chapter 5 under the heading of "Decisions"...

The fate of Donald Hudden. (Brief Communications).(Biography)
January 1, 1999... In his recently published book, Masa Jepun, Bob Reece gives an account of Donald Hudden's death. He obtained the information from Hudson Southwell, who had heard it from the headman of Belawit in the Kerayan (Kalimantan Timur). Unfortunately...

An ethnological exhibition on Indonesia in Linz, Austria. (Brief Communications).
January 1, 1999... An exhibition on Indonesia, with particular emphasis on Borneo, was held from June 11th, 1999, through February 27th, 2000, in the Schlossmuseum (Castle Museum) in Linz, Austria, called "Indonesien. Kunstwerke--Weltbilder" ("Indonesia. Works of...

Fifth Biennial meetings.
January 1, 1999... FIFTH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE BORNEO RESEARCH COUNCIL OPENING ADDRESS Warsito Rasman, The Governor of Central Kalimantan Palangka Raya Presented August 10, 1998 On behalf of our local government we extend a...

Papers of the Brookes of Sarawak kept in Rhodes House Library, Oxford (1). (Research Notes).(Bibliography)
January 1, 1999... Introduction The Collection, which covers the years 1841-1971, is associated primarily with the following members of the Brooke family: James Brooke, First Rajah (1803-68) Charles Johnson Brooke, Second Rajah (1829-1917) ...

The Brooke-Sarawak archive at Rhodes House Library, Oxford. (Research Notes).
January 1, 1999... When I began my research on Sarawak history in 1973 I naturally expected that I would find most of my materials in Sarawak. Such was the reputation of the Sarawak Museum that it seemed to me the first port of call in my work on the 1946 cession...

The kingdom of Ulu are in Borneo's history: a comment. (Research Notes).
January 1, 1999... Since I was involved in helping to prepare the English version of the above text by Stepanus Djuweng and in submitting it, back in 1995, to the Bulletin, the present editor has asked me to contribute some comments. Due to time constraints, I...

Dayak kings among Malay sultans (1). (Research Notes).
January 1, 1999... Among a score of Melayu (Muslim Malay) sultanates found throughout West Kalimantan, both along its coasts and on the upper course of its rivers, there once existed a Dayak kingdom known as Kerajaan Ulu Are or Kerajaan Ulu Aik ("Kingdom of the...

Wet rice cultivation and the Kayanic peoples of East Kalimantan: some possible factors explaining their preference for dry rice cultivation (1). (Research Notes).
January 1, 1999... Introduction In Kalimantan, as in other Indonesian islands, wet rice cultivation has been encouraged by government policy, which often equates dry rice cultivation with "traditional", "extensive", "wasteful of land", whereas wet rice...

Education and research on sustainable land use and Natural Resource Management. a new Danish-Malaysian university program. (Research Notes).
January 1, 1999... Introduction This paper provides a brief introduction to a new educational and research collaboration between Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) and a consortium of three Danish universities focusing on sustainable land use and natural...

Conservation and the Orang Sungai of the lower Sugut, Sabah: preliminary notes (1, 2). (Research Notes).(Malaysia)
January 1, 1999... Introduction The Sabah Biodiversity Conservation Project (1995 to 1998) was an offical project of the Sabah Ministry of Tourism and Environmental Development (3), with financial and technical assistance from the Danish Cooperation for...

State law and Iban land tenure: a response to Hooker. (Research Notes).(response to article by M.B. Hooker in this issue, p. 28)
January 1, 1999... In his useful research note on native land tenure and state law in Sarawak, Professor Hooker draws out the historical development of land law, the formal codification of adat, and the problematic nature of definitions of "native" and...

A note on native land tenure in Sarawak. (Research Notes).
January 1, 1999... I am prompted to write this short paper by recently reading two excellent essays by Drs. Appell and Wadley in Volume 28 of the Borneo Research Bulletin. I only wish their work had been available to me twenty years ago when I was grappling with...

A bridge to the upper world: sacred language of the Ngaju. (Research Notes).
January 1, 1999... General Remarks The Ngajus are a major population of Borneo. They live in the Indonesian Province of Central Kalimantan along the Barito, Kahayan, Kapuas, Katingan, and Mentaya rivers and their tributaries. The word Ngaju means...

Tuton Kaboy. (Memorials).(Sarawak Museum Assistant Curator)(Obituary)
January 1, 1999... 1940-1997 Tuton Kaboy, the former Assistant Curator of the Sarawak Museum, Ethnology Section, passed away in Kuching on 3 October, 1997, at the age of 58. A funeral mass was held at St. Joseph Cathedral, Kuching, on 6 October, followed by...

Bill Smythies *. (Memorials).(forester and botanist)(Obituary)
January 1, 1999... 1912-1999 On 27th June, 1999, the death of Bill Smythies robbed the small and rapidly diminishing band of ex-colonial foresters of one of its outstanding members. Bertram Evelyn (Bill) Smythies was born in 1912 in India, to E.A. Smythies,...

Nasals and nasalizations in Borneo. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Blust, Robert, 1997, Nasals and nasalizations in Borneo. Oceanic Linguistics, 36(1): 149-179. This paper discusses the phenomena of nasal harmony, nasal preplosion, and nasal postplosion in various languages of Borneo, including Uma Juman,...

Signifying bereavement: forms and context in the analysis of Penan death-names. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Brosius, J. Peter, 1995, Signifying bereavement: forms and context in the analysis of Penan death-names. Oceania. 66(2): 119-146. Death-names are a characteristic of most central Borneo societies. These are, in fact, titles which are given...

Field guide to the common mangroves, seagrasses and algae of the Philippines. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Calumpong, H.P. and E.G. Menez. 1997, Field guide to the common mangroves, seagrasses and algae of the Philippines. Makati City, Philippines. ISBN 971 569 197 8, vii, 197 pp. Illus. A brief introduction on a popular level, with keys. Very...

The Bajau: future marine park managers in Indonesia? (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Djohani, Rili Hawari. 1996, The Bajau: future marine park managers in Indonesia? IN: Michael Parnwell and Raymond L. Bryant, eds. Environmental Change in South-East Asia. London: Routledge, pp. 260-268. The author explores the potential...

Process versus product in Bornean augury: a traditional knowledge system's solution to the problem of knowing. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Dove, Michael R., 1996, Process versus product in Bornean augury: a traditional knowledge system's solution to the problem of knowing. IN: Roy Ellen and Katsuyoshi Fukui, eds., Redefining Nature, Oxford: Berg, pp. 557-596. The practice of...

A brief history and analysis of Indonesia's forest fire crisis. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Gellert, Paul K. 1998, A brief history and analysis of Indonesia's forest fire crisis. Indonesia, no. 65: 63-85. Lost in a haze of smoke, paradoxically Indonesia lost some of its international invisibility in 1997 when it was afflicted by...

Ethnic relations and cultural dynamics in East Kalimantan: the case of the Dayak lady. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Gerke, Solvay. 1997, Ethnic relations and cultural dynamics in East Kalimantan: the case of the Dayak lady. Indonesia and the Malay World, no. 72, pp. 176-187. The author describes her encounter with a Dayak lady, in every sense of the...

A.W. Nieuwenhuis (1864-1953): explorer of Central Borneo. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Goor, Jurrien van. 1995, A.W. Nieuwenhuis (1864-1953): explorer of Central Borneo. IN: Victor T. King, ed., Explorers of South-East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, pp. 229-280. Aton Willem Nieuwenhuis (born on 22 May 1864 in...

Structure, litterfall and net primary production in the mangrove forests in East Kalimantan. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Sukardjo, Sukristijono. 1995, Structure, litterfall and net primary production in the mangrove forests in East Kalimantan. IN: E.O. Box, et al. eds., Vegetation science in forestry. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 585-611. ...

The ecology of the Indonesian seas. Part I. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Tomascik, T., A.J. Mah, A. Nontji and M.K. Moosa. 1997, The ecology of the Indonesian seas. Part I. Ecology Indon. Series 7, xiv, pp. 1-642, illus. Introduction; geology, physical oceanography and meteorology; introducing coral reefs;...

The ecology of the Indonesian seas. Part 2. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Tomascik, T., A.J. Mah, A. Nontji and M.K. Moosa. 1997, The ecology of the Indonesian seas. Part 2. Ecol. Indon. Series 8, vi, pp. 643-1388, illus. Fringing reefs; patch reefs; barrier reefs; atolls and raised islands; coral cays;...

Telling violence in the Meratus mountains. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. 1996, Telling violence in the Meratus mountains, IN: Janet Hoskins, ed., Headhunting and the social imagination in Southeast Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 184-215. The author explores the politics...

'Malay identity': modernity, invented tradition, and forms of knowledge. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Vickers, Adrian. 1997, 'Malay identity': modernity, invented tradition, and forms of knowledge. Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 31(1):173-211. What is "Malayness"? Is it an essentially colonial construction? If its genealogy...

Emas di Kalimantan Barat: ethnohistory untuk arkeologi. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Wibosono, Sonny Chr. 1998, Emas di Kalimantan Barat: ethnohistory untuk arkeologi. IN: Pertemuan Ilmiah Arkeologi VI, Batu, Malang, 26-29 Juli 1992. Jakarta: Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasional, pp. 109-121. Although there are remains of...

Aloeswood forest and the maritime world. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Yamada, Isamu. 1995, Aloeswood forest and the maritime world. Tonan ajia kenkyu. 33(3): 463-468. Aloes wood, one of the most valuable forest products of the Southeast Asian forest, is a chemical reaction to fungi or to wounds by various...

Bibliography.(Bibliography)
January 1, 1999... Abang Abdullah Abang Ali 1997 Sains dan Teknologi sebagai Asas: Pemikiran Masyarakat Melayu dalam Abad ke-21. Sarawak Museum Journal, XL VII, 68 (part II), 235-240. Abang Ahmad Ridzuan bin Abang Awit 1997 Faktor-faktor yang...

Upstream and downstream networking in seventeenth century Banjarmasin. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Hall, Kenneth R., 1995, Upstream and downstream networking in seventeenth century Banjarmasin. IN: Victor T. King and A.V.M. Horton, eds., From Buckfast to Borneo. Hull: Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull, pp. 489-504. ...

The textile industry in Southeast Asia, 1400-1800. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Hall, Kenneth R., 1996, The textile industry in Southeast Asia, 1400-1800, Journal of Eonomic and Social History of the Orient. 39(2): 87-135. Taking Banjarmasin, which flourished in the pepper trade of the period, as his example, the...

Is rukun dead? Ethnographic interpretations of social change and Javanese culture. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Hawkins, Mary. 1996, Is rukun dead? Ethnographic interpretations of social change and Javanese culture. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 7(3): 218-234. The Javanese concept of rukun or harmony is allied to helpfulness and a strong...

Pemberdayaan ekonomi masyarakat melahui program HPH Bina Desa Hutan: studi kasus desa Muara Gusik, kecamatan Muara Kedang, kabupaten Kutai, Kaltim. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Hidayat, Herman. 1997, Pemberdayaan ekonomi masyarakat melahui program HPH Bina Desa Hutan: studi kasus desa Muara Gusik, kecamatan Muara Kedang, kabupaten Kutai, Kaltim. Analisis CSIS, 26(5): 443-463. The instruction from the Ministry of...

Introduction: headhunting as practice and as trope. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Hoskins, Janet. 1996, Introduction: headhunting as practice and as trope. IN: Janet Hoskins, ed., Headhunting and the social imagination in Southeast Asia. Stanford: Standford University Press, pp. 1-49. In her introduction to this volume,...

Rainforest Politics. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Hurst, Philip. 1990, Indonesia. IN: Philip Hurst, Rainforest Politics. Kuala Lumpur: S. Abdul Majeed, pp. 1-45. This article focuses on the problem of deforestation in Indonesia; its environmental consequences, economic and social costs,...

Rubber booms and peasants on the border: a case from Western Borneo. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Ishikawa Noboru. 1997, Rubber booms and peasants on the border: a case from Western Borneo. Minzokugaku Kenkyu, 61(4): 586-615. This article (in Japanese) surveys the peasants in the international border area between what is now Indonesian...

Dynamics of the frontier world in insular Southeast Asia: an overview. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Kato, Tsuyoshi. 1997, Dynamics of the frontier world in insular Southeast Asia: an overview. Tonan Ajia Kenkyu, 34(4): 611-621. The project "Dynamics of the Frontier World in Insular Southeast Asia" was a three-year project carried out...

Alokasi lahan optimal untuk calon transmigran pada pengembangan padi dengan pola sawit dupa di lahan rawa satu juta hektar di Kalimantan Tengah. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Nizwar Syafa'at, Shaiful Bahri, D.S. Swastika. 1997, Alokasi lahan optimal untuk calon transmigran pada pengembangan padi dengan pola sawit dupa di lahan rawa satu juta hektar di Kalimantan Tengah. Ekonomi dan keuangan Indonesia, 45 (2):...

Rethinking Indonesian forest policy: beyond the timber barons. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Poffenberger, Mark. 1997, Rethinking Indonesian forest policy: beyond the timber barons, Asian Survey, 37(5): 453-469. Subjected to the scrutiny of this paper is the current highly concentrated structure of political and economic power...

Carl Bock (1849-1932): explorations and travels in Sumatra, Borne, and Siam. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Reece, Bob. 1995, Carl Bock (1849-1932): explorations and travels in Sumatra, Borne, and Siam. IN: Victor T. King, ed., Explorers of South-East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, pp. 194-228. Carl Alfred Bock was born in 1849 in...

Tropical peat swamp forests of Southeast Asia: ecology and environmental importance. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Riedey, J.O. and S. Page and G. Sieffermann, 1995, Tropical peat swamp forests of Southeast Asia: ecology and environmental importance. Malaysian Journal of Tropical Geography, 26(2): 131-142. In contrast to boreal and temperate peat,...

Bornean and Sumatran tribal cosmologies. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Schartzberg, Joseph E., 1995, Bornean and Sumatran tribal cosmologies. IN: Victor T. King and A.V.M. Horton, eds., From Buckfust to Borneo, Hull: Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull, pp. 505-520. There are terrestrial...

Long-term ecological research in Indonesia: achieving sustainable forest management. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Soedjito, Herwasono and Kuswata Kartawinata. 1995, Long-term ecological research in Indonesia: achieving sustainable forest management. IN: Richard B. Primack and Thomas E. Lovejoy, eds., Ecology, conservation, and management of Southeast Asian...

Chinese identity in the diaspora: religion and language in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Somer Heidhues, Mary. 1997, Chinese identity in the diaspora: religion and language in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. IN: Sri Kuhnt-Saptodewo, Volker Grabowsky, and Martin Grossheim, eds. Nationalism and cultural revival in Southeast Asia....

Koortsachtig koppen tellen in de binnenlanden van Zuidoost-Borneo (1700-1900). (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Knapen, Han. 1997, Koortsachtig koppen tellen in de binnenlanden van Zuidoost-Borneo (1700-1900), Spiegel historiael. 32(10-11): 444-449. Borneo is one of, if not the, most thinly populated areas in Southeast Asia. There has been a tendency...

Lethal diseases in the history of Borneo: mortality and the interplay between disease environment and human geography. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Knapen, Han. 1998, Lethal diseases in the history of Borneo: mortality and the interplay between disease environment and human geography. IN: V.T. King, ed., Environmental challenges in South-East Asia. Richard: Curzon, pp. 69-94. In this...

Mining, environmental impact and dependent communities: the view from below in East Kalimantan. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Kunanayagam, Ramanie and Ken Young. 1998, Mining, environmental impact and dependent communities: the view from below in East Kalimantan. IN: Philip Hirsch and Carol Warren, eds., The politics of environment in Southeast Asia. London:...

Research on Bajau communities: maritime people in Southeast Asia. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Lapian, Adrian B. and Nagatsu Kazufumi, 1996, Research on Bajau communities: maritime people in Southeast Asia. Asian research trends, no. 6: 45-70. Bajau or Bajo is the name generally given to the maritime boat people of Eastern...

Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Lockard, Craig A., 1998, Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, pp. 328. This book provides broad cultural and historical frameworks of role and impact of popular musicians and their...

Improving the management of Indonesia's national parks: lessons from two case studies. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... MacAndrews, Colin. 1998, Improving the management of Indonesia's national parks: lessons from two case studies. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. 34(1): 121-37. Since the 1970s, Indonesia has moved quickly to protect its rich...

Patterns of life: a gateway to understanding Indonesian textiles. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Mittersakschmoller, Reinhold and Heide Leigh-Theisen. 1997, Patterns of life: a gateway to understanding Indonesian textiles. IN: Jill Tilden, et al., First Under Heaven. London: Hali Publications, pp. 44-59. Both in ritual and in the...

Dekat dengan hutan, jauh dari kekuasaan: marjinalitas struktural Orang Bukat dan Punan. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Ngo, Mering 1998, Dekat dengan hutan, jauh dari kekuasaan: marjinalitas struktural Orang Bukat dan Punan. Prisma 27(1): 61-74. The Bukat and the Punan are hunters and gatherers who live in the headwaters of the Mendalam, Bungan, and Kapuas...

Maleiers, Dayak en Javaanse koelies: reacties op westerse invloeden in Z.O.-Borneo (1900-1942). (Abstracts).(Abstract)
January 1, 1999... Nierop, Trudi van. 1994, Maleiers, Dayak en Javaanse koelies: reacties op westerse invloeden in Z.O.-Borneo (1900-1942). Jambatan 12(2): 47-85. From roundabout 1900, Western institutions, namely the government, businesses, and missions...