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Roadside village between Malang and Selecta NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY INDONESIAN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION Benedict R. OfG. Anderson With the appearance in 1970 of Indonesian Political Thinking, students of Indonesian society and politics were for the first time presented with a wide-ranging collection of writings and speeches by important Indonesian politicians and intellectuals in the post-1945 period.1 The timing of its publication was not fortuitous: it clearly reflected a steadily growing scholarly interest in Indonesian ideology and political discourse.2 Recent work by Dahm, Weatherbee, Legge and Mortimer has been devoted to pioneering analysis of important segments of Indonesian political thought.3 Their writings show not only how rich this field of enquiry is, but also how much m m m research still needs to be done. At the same time it is useful to recognize that the materials used in this genre of research haewsssa specialized represent a particular type of political communication. In general, they take the form of more or less studied, quasi-literary and printed 1. Herbert Feith and Lance Castles, eds., Indonesian Political Thinking, 1945-1965 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1970). For a useful critique, see Alfian, "Indonesian Political Thinking’: A Review," Indonesia, 11 (April 1971), pp. 193-200. 2. In addition, a number of translations of important individual texts by Indonesian political leaders have been published. These include: Sutan Sjahrir, Out of Exile, trans. Charles Wolf, Jr. (New York: John Day, 1949); Mohammad Hatta, Past and Future (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1960); Sukarno, Mar- haen and Proletarian, trans.
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