ID: 045

Author: Fathmi

Title: Bibliografi Batavia; The Bibliography of Batavia. Jakarta, Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, 1999. v., 145p., 28cm. ISBN 979 8289 935

Coverage: Works on Batavia including books, periodical articles and newspaper articles, as found in the collections of the National Library of Indonesia and the KITLV. All aspects of life in Batavia included; religion, etiquette, etc. Works are in Dutch, Indonesian, English and German. Sources range from early 19thC to 1990s.

No. of items: 264

Structure: Arranged by DDC and then alphabetically by author/title. Full bibliographical details provided. Author and title indexes, as well as location library. Annotations and descriptions of each work are in Indonesian.

Evaluation: Mixture of scholarly and popular, retrospective and current works on the present-day city of Jakarta as it was before Indonesian independence. Some works are from 19thC scholarly Dutch journals while others are from popular modern magazines such as Intisari. Handy guide to the collection with useful summaries/abstracts in Indonesian.

Location: NLA IAP Cons 288