This book examines the development of Indonesia nationalism from the viewpoint of minority-the urban Cristian elite. Placed between the Indonesian nationalist promise of freedom and the (equally Christian) Dutch colonial promise of modernity, their experience of late colonialism was filled with dilemma and ambiguity. ...

In 1940, a Dutch colonial officer named Louis Fontijne (1902-1968) was commissioned to conduct an investigation of indigenous land tenure and leadership in the Residency of Timor and Depedencies. Dealing speccifically with Kelimado , a region included in the Nage district of central Flores, its main product was a remarkable study of society and culture and the effects of over three decades of Dutch administration and Cristian proselytizing. In regard to ethnographic detail and analytical ...