Rebellion to integration: West Sumatra and the Indonesian polity: 1926-1998
- Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 1999
- 368p.
Presents a study of the political history of West Sumatra from the late colonial period up to Suharto's resignation in 1998. It focuses on the course and degree of the Minangkabau people's integration into the contemporary Indonesian state. It provides a local perspective on the growth and development of the nationalist movement in Indonesia, the struggle for independence, and the trauma involved in adapting to an Indonesian polity based on different concepts of government.