The Social Evolution of Indonesia The Asiatic Mode of Production and

At a fairly early stage of socialism's penetration into the Afro-Asian world, a handful of European social democrats established an Indian Social-Democratic Association (lSDV). They did so in a country, Indonesia, that was economically little developed an

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THE SOCIAL EVOLUTION OF INDONESIA The Asiatic Mode of Production and Its Legacy by

FRITJOF TICHELMAN

translated from the Dutch by JEAN SANDERS

• MARTINUS NIJHOFF PUBLISHERS. THE HAGUE/BOSTON/LONDON

Distribu tors: for the United States and Canada Kluwer Boston, Inc. 160 Old Derby Street Hingham, MA 02043 USA

for all other countries Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Distribution Center P.O. Box 322 3300 AH Dordrecht The Netherlands ISBN-13: 978-94-009-8898-9 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-8896-5

e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-8896-5

Cover illustrations Front cover, left: Pakoe Boewono IX, ca. 1865 (1); right: Governor-General Johannes Count van den Bosch (2). Back cover, left: President Soekarno (3); right: President Soeharto (4). Photographs by kind permission of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, Leiden (1,3,4) and the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam (2).

The English translation has been made possible by the financial support of the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.).

Copyright © 1980 by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers bv, The Hague. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 18t edition 1980 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers bv, P.O. Box 566,2501 CN The Hague, The Netherlands.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgement

vii

Glossary

xi

Abbreviations of Organizations List of Abbreviations and Selected Periodicals

xiii xv

INTRODUCTION

I. SOUTHEAST ASIA 1. Van Leur, Western Penetration and the Degree of Southeast Asian Development

11 13

2. Asiatic Variations

22

3. Southeast Asia

37

4. Indianized Southeast Asia: Similarities and Differences

51

5. Southeast Asian Varieties: The Hispanicized and Sinicized Sectors

64

6. Southeast Asia: The Conclusions reached by Bastin and Benda

89

II. INDONESIA

101

7. Islam, 'Asia' and the United East India Company

103

8. Colonial Policy in the 19th and 20th Centuries

113

9. Continuities

128

10. Changes

144

11. Conflict and Movement

170

12. The Trias in Movement: the Santris

194

13. The Neo-Priyayis and Soekarno

207

14. The PKI and the Abangan

230