We have drawn on other experience and other publications as well:
my first two years in Indonesia were spent under United Nations
auspices, and our story begins there. The Modern Indonesia Project at
Cornell University is a mainstay of all scholars working on Indonesia.
We used large amounts of material from John Sutter's encyclopaedic
work. Hans Schmitt, now of the University of Wisconsin Department
of Economics, combines economic and political analysis of Indonesian
postwar history in a fashion that compels others to make use of his
writings. All writers on Indonesia revert on occasion to Raymond Ken-
nedy's early anthropological studies and the basic histories of Furnivall
and Ulekke. The Human Relations Area File study of Indonesia, pro-
duced at Yale, is a standard source of facts. Karl Pelzer, of the Yale
Department of Geography and Director of Yale's Southeast Asian Studies
Program, has for years stood ready to fill in or correct my efforts at fact
gathering. His wife, Betty, has taught me most of what I know about
Batak culture. Finally, Willard Hanna of the American Universities
Field Staff saw so much in Indonesia in 1959 and described it so aptly
that we have quoted long passages verbatim.

The book is written in the first person singular because it is essentially
the story of my own original mission to Indonesia and my subsequent
contacts with the country. But the book is no less a product of joint
authorship. Jean Higgins was aware of Indonesia's existence, its prob-
lems, and its relations to the outside world long before I was. The
political analysis is as much hers as mine; the organization and editing
are much more hers than mine. Anyone with doubts on this score need
only compare this book with the ones I have written on my own.

BENJAMIN HIGGINS

Austin, Texas
January 15, 1963

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