Wikipedia:WikiProject Indonesia/Resources

Always use reliable sources to write an article. This is important to support the three pillars of Wikipedia: verifiable, neutral point of view and no elements of original research.

Here are lists of reliable Indonesia-related sources and public-domain images/maps, compiled by the project members. Please read WP:CITE for guidelines of citing and inline citing the sources.

News sites with English version

 * Antara (Indonesian State News Agency)
 * Jakarta Globe
 * Jakarta Post
 * Tempo Magazine


 * RRI (State Radio of Indonesia) (inactive)


 * InsideIndonesia - news digests, online prints since issue #46.

Academic publications
Journals are mostly access through personal or via institution-based subscription.

Books

 * A classic text on Indonesian National Revolution
 * A classic text on Indonesian National Revolution


 * Detailed analysis and interpretations of the most intense phase of the Indonesian revolution - August-November 1945. With considerable focus on Surabaya.
 * Detailed analysis and interpretations of the most intense phase of the Indonesian revolution - August-November 1945. With considerable focus on Surabaya.
 * Detailed analysis and interpretations of the most intense phase of the Indonesian revolution - August-November 1945. With considerable focus on Surabaya.


 * ...uses a wealth of contemporary Indonesian contacts to paint a lively historical, sociological, anthropological and at times gossipy portrait of the country...".
 * ...uses a wealth of contemporary Indonesian contacts to paint a lively historical, sociological, anthropological and at times gossipy portrait of the country...".


 * ''Throrough account of British Occupation following WW2: From blurb: "Contrary to previous studies, this book demonstratese that the [British] occupation was neither exclusively pro-Dutch or pro-Indonesian; nor was it the orderly affair portrayed in the British official histories."
 * Traces story of the People's Militia of Greater Jakarta during the Indoneian National Revolution, and examines social basis of the Indonesian revolution
 * ''Throrough account of British Occupation following WW2: From blurb: "Contrary to previous studies, this book demonstratese that the [British] occupation was neither exclusively pro-Dutch or pro-Indonesian; nor was it the orderly affair portrayed in the British official histories."
 * Traces story of the People's Militia of Greater Jakarta during the Indoneian National Revolution, and examines social basis of the Indonesian revolution


 * ''Account of Australian volunteer living in Indonesia in the last years of Sukarno's rule 1964-65.
 * ''Account of Australian volunteer living in Indonesia in the last years of Sukarno's rule 1964-65.
 * ''Account of Australian volunteer living in Indonesia in the last years of Sukarno's rule 1964-65.


 * General History - main focus up to 1945'
 * General History - main focus up to 1945'


 * A general History from c.1870
 * A general History from c.1870

Tourist Guide Books
Never to be used as a primary information source - but the two mentioned here as useful for a printed off-line compendium of place names and tourist information - useful to check  any spurious web-sites or their claims about locations.
 * Lonely Planet has the Indonesia guide book is currently up to its 8th edition.
 * Indonesia Handbook was the 1980s predecessor to the Lonely Planet guide book.  Dated - but good for checking information.

Authorized NGO sites

 * International Crisis Group &mdash; deadly regional conflicts. Indonesia section
 * Global Forest Watch: Indonesia &mdash; forest status, forest maps, vegetations.
 * The Nature Conservacy in Indonesia

Public domain

 * Commons:Category:Indonesia - collections of free Indonesian images. Please put a newly uploaded Indonesia image under this category or sub-category to have better organization.
 * Flickr CC BY 2.0 license
 * Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 license
 * Public-domain maps from Univ. Texas - mostly historical old ones.
 * Memory of the Netherlands - collection of Indonesia historical images, some with expired copyrights.
 * Stichting Volkenkundige Collectie Nederland - collection of Indonesia historical images, some with expired copyrights.

Government sources

 * President of Indonesia website - Images can be freely used given attribution according to the terms and conditions, but all content is in Indonesian.
 * Photos from the National Library of Indonesia - All images have cited sources. Images created by the government are public domain. Content is in Indonesian.