Gangsters and Revolutionaries

Somewhat dry and mostly political narrative of the Indonesian Revolution. Surprising that, given the detailed topic, there was a lot less focus on specific groups and people, or even more general abstract analysis of the “gangsters” (this term is not sufficiently problematized) or their relationship to the revolutionaries.

However, given there is not a whole lot on this topic out there, as far as I know, it was still informative to someone such as myself who has much to learn about this particular troubling period of postcolonial Indonesia.