Merle Calvin Ricklefs is a scholar of the history and current affairs of Indonesia

Indonesia

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. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University

Cornell University

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 under the supervision of O. W. Wolters. He has taught at School of Oriental and African Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies

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, All Souls College, Monash University

Monash University

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, Australian National University

Australian National University

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 and University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

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. Ricklefs recently retired from the Professorship of Southeast Asian history at the National University of Singapore

National University of Singapore

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His publications have focused on the history of Mataram, Kartasura, Yogyakarta, Surakarta, locations in Central Java

Central Java

Central Java is a province of Indonesia. The administrative capital is Semarang. It is one of six provinces on the island of Java.This province is the province of high Human Development in Indonesia and its Points Development Index countries is equivalent to Lebanon. The province of Central Java...

. He has also regularly updated his history of Indonesia - A History of Modern Indonesia, ca. 1300 to the present. Few other living English speaking writers can claim the scope of his knowledge of the history of Java from the 17th to the 20th century.

The Government of Australia awarded him in 2001 the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of Indonesia.

Publications

• Jogjakarta under Sultan Mangkubumi
  Hamengkubuwono I
  Hamengkubuwono I, born Raden Mas Sujana , was the first sultan of Yogyakarta.Sujana, the Crown Prince, was known as Prince Mangkubumi prior to becoming sultan of Yogyakarta Sultanate. As a son of Sultan Sunan Prabu of Mataram Mataram ruler, and brother to Prince Heir Apparent Pakubuwono II of...
  
  , 1749–1792: a history of the division of Java. (London Oriental Series, vol. 30.) London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Revised Indonesian edition 2002
• (co-authored with P. Voorhoeve) Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain: a catalogue of manuscripts in Indonesian languages in British public collections. (London Oriental Bibliographies, vol. 5.) London: Oxford University Press, 1977
• Modern Javanese Historical Tradition: a study of an original Kartasura chronicle and related materials. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1978
• A History of Modern Indonesia, ca. 1300 to the present. London & Basingstoke: Macmillan; Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1981. 2nd edition (Palgrave and Stanford University Press) 1993. 3rd edition (Palgrave and Stanford University Press) 2001. Revised Indonesian edition 1991 (Gadjah Mada University Press); 2nd revised Indonesian edition 2005 (Serambi)
• War, Culture and Economy in Java, 1677–1726: Asian and European imperialism in the early Kartasura period. Sydney : Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen and Unwin, 1993
• (edited and translated) Pantheism and Monism in Javanese Suluk Literature: Islamic and Indian mysticism in an Indonesian setting, by P. J. Zoetmulder
  Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder
  Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder S.J. was a Dutch expert in the Old Javanese language. He came from Utrecht and was associated with the Society of Jesus by 1925. He worked at Leiden University in the 1930s. His first work appeared in 1930 and he continued to write into the 1990s...
  
  , S.J. Ed. and transl. M. C. Ricklefs. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1995
• The Seen and Unseen Worlds in Java, 1726–49: history, literature and Islam in the court of Pakubuwana II. St. Leonards NSW: The Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen and Unwin; Honolulu: The University of Hawai'i Press, 1998 ISBN 1864486279
• Mystic Synthesis in Java: a history of Islamization from the fourteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. White Plains, NY : EastBridge, 2006
• Polarising Javanese Society: Islamic and other visions, 1830-1930. Singapore: NUS Press; Leiden: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 2007 ISBN 9971693466

External links

• Homepage at NUS