Burma: Japanese Military Administration, Selected Documents, 1941-1945.

Abstract In this article I seek to make sense of the apparent contradiction of a call for jihad made under the auspices of the Japanese empire during its occupation of Java from March 1942 to September 1945. Why was Mas Mansur (1896–1946), the Indonesian religious figure and national hero who made the call, so supportive of the Japanese military administration? And why is this act so seldom remembered? As I hope to explain, Japan had already figured in the reformist Muslim imagination as a patriotic anti-western model for decades, creating a constituency that was initially open to Japanese overtures framed around mobilising national sentiment. Equally some Japanese advocates of southern expansion had thought about such framings while downplaying their preferred vision for a Greater East Asia that would not include an independent Indonesia. How this collaboration played out, with the Japanese eventually conceding ground on Islamic terms to gain national bodies, is a story worth retelling. In so doing I stress that Indonesia – lying at the intersection of pan-Islamic and pan-Asian imaginaries – should figure more prominently in global studies of Japanese policies regarding Islam in Asia or yet anti-Westernism in general.

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Burma: Japanese Military Administration, Selected Documents, 1941-1945.

Monumenta Nipponica ◽

10.2307/2383866 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 240

Author(s):

Gordon M. Berger ◽

Frank N. Trager ◽

Won Zoon Yoon ◽

Thomas T. Winant

Keyword(s):

Military Administration ◽

Japanese Military

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T. Iwatake: Japanese Military Administration in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia History and Culture ◽

10.5512/sea.1990.105 ◽

1990 ◽

pp. 105-108

Author(s):

K. Ichikawa

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Military Administration ◽

Japanese Military

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Book Reviews

Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia ◽

10.1163/22134379-90002902 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 123 (3) ◽

pp. 379-396

Author(s):

Redactie KITLV

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

London School ◽

New Haven ◽

Kuala Lumpur ◽

Yale University ◽

Frankfurt Am Main ◽

Military Administration ◽

Japanese Military ◽

West Sumatra ◽

London School Of Economics

- F.D.K. Bosch, J. Boisselier, Manuel d’ archéologie d’ Extrême-Orient. Première Partie: Asie du Sud-Est I. Le Cambodge. Sous la direction de G. Coedès. J. Picard et Cie., Paris, 1966. XVI and 480 pp., 72 figs., 64 pls., 4 plans and 2 maps. - H.J. de Graaf, Generale Missiven, van Gouverneurs-Generaal en Raden aan Heren XVII der Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Deel II: 1639-1655. Uitgegeven door Dr. W. Ph. Coolhaas. Martinus Nijhoff, ‘s-Gravenhage 1964. XIV en 870 blzz. - M.A.P. Meilink-Roelofsz, John Bastin, The British in West Sumatra, 1685-1825. A selection of documents with an introduction and notes. University of Malaya Press. Kuala Lumpur 1965. XLII, 209 p., ill., maps. - H.J. de Graaf, Nicholas Tarling, Southeast Asia; Past and present. F.W. Cheshire Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney 1966. 334 bladzijden, met 5 kaarten. - D. van Velden, Harry J. Benda, Japanese military administration in Indonesia: Selected documents. Translation Series No. 6. Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University. New Haven, 1965. XXVI, 279 pp., glossary., James K. Irikura, Koichi Kishi (eds.) - L. Sluimers, B. Dahm, Sukarnos Kampf um Indonesiens Unabhängigkeit: Werdegang und Ideen eines asiatischen Nationalisten. Band XVIII der Schriften des Instituts für Asienkunde. Alfred Metzner Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1966. XVI, 295 Seiten. - W.L. Idema, Maurice Freedman, Chinese lineage and society: Fukien and Kwantung. London School of Economics, Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 33; Athlone Press, London 1966. 207 pp., ills., krtn. - ,

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‘So rich as to be almost indecent’: some aspects of post-war rehabilitation in Brunei, 1946–1953

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0041977x00011873 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 58 (1) ◽

pp. 91-103

Author(s):

A. V. M. Horton

Keyword(s):

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Fire Fighters ◽

North West ◽

Military Administration ◽

Japanese Military ◽

Post War ◽

Second World ◽

Intense Heat

The small, oil-rich state of Brunei (population c. 40,000 in 1940) is situated in north-west Borneo. The ‘Abode of Peace’ became a British protectorate in 1888 and a Residential System along Malayan lines came into operation at the beginning of 1906. For most of the Second World War the country was under Japanese Military Administration, a period of three and a half years beginning in December 1941. Allied, predominantly Australian, landings took place in early June 1945 (Fahey 1992: 325–8; Monks 1992: 7–53) and the sultanate was speedily cleared of enemy forces, though not before the latter had successfully executed a scorched-earth programme. Most crucially of all, the Seria oilfield (discovered in 1929 by the Shell company) was set alight, the flames shooting ‘like giant blow-lamps’ at least thirty feet into the air. The last well fire was not extinguished until 27 September 1945 (Harper 1975: 21–4). A report in the Straits Times of 20 July 1946 gives some impression of the problems faced by the returning Western engineers:Most of the [Seria] wells were surrounded by blazing lakes, and the oil experts had to blast their way through. Because of the intense heat it was difficult to get near enough to ‘cap’ them and so seal the fires. In some cases aircraft were used, the fire-fighters advancing through the slipstream of the propellers which blew the flames and oil back. It then became possible to get near enough to thrust forward on long steel arms heavy charges of explosives.

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