About the Author

Merle Ricklefs is a senior and highly respected scholar of Indonesian history. Over the course of his career, he held positions at held positions at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, All Souls College (Univ. of Oxford), Monash University, the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, and the National University of Singapore. He is the author of a standard textbook entitled A History of Modern Indonesia since c. 1300 (Palgrave), and has published a large number of books and articles.