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Indonesia 1939–1942: Prelude to the Japanese Occupation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2006

Shigeru Sato
Affiliation:
The University of Newcastle. He may be contacted at Shigeru.Sato@newcastle.edu.au

Abstract

In the conventional historiography of Indonesia, the Second World War is equated with the Japanese occupation, and 1942 is a year of sudden change. This article argues that there was a prelude to these conditions. Changes in the global economic structure due to the Second World War, and countermeasures by the state authorities, began well before the Japanese invasion. The fundamental problem was the gradually deepening economic isolation that necessitated state intervention.

Type
Articles
Copyright
2006 The National University of Singapore

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Footnotes

An earlier version of this article was drafted as a working paper during a visiting fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) in Amsterdam in early 2004. Prof. Sato is grateful to NIOD and its staff for their support