Road to Exile The Indonesian Nationalist Movement, 1927-1934

• Main Author: Ingleson, John
• Corporate Author: Asian Studies Association of Australia
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Kuala Lumpur Heinemann Educational Books (Asia1979)
• Series: Southeast Asia Publications series no. 1
• Subjects: Nationalism > Indonesia; Indonesia > Politics and government > 1798-1942
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• Item Description: Includes index.
• Physical Description: xii, 254 pages 24 cm
• Bibliography: Bibliography: p. [235]-246.
• ISBN: 0708103103

In 1927 Indonesia's first true nationalist party, the PNI, was formed with Sukarno as its young leader. This inaugurated a period of hectic political activity when the men who were later to lead the Republic of Indonesia hammered out the goals and methods of their independence struggle, in the process laying the seeds of some of the major conflicts which would later affect the Republic. By 1934, the leading figures were all exiled by the Dutch authorities, but they had succeeded in establishing Indonesian nationalism as a force which no one could subsequently ignore. This is the first study to analyse these developments on the basis of the extensive Dutch intelligence reports, as well as Indonesian newspaper collections.