Banditry in West Java, 1869-1942
Till, Margreet van
Banditry was rife around Batavia (modern Jakarta) during the late colonial period. This identifies the bandits and describes both their working methods and their motives, which often went beyond simple self-enrichment. It also explores the world of the victims of the robbers, who viewed them as the antithesis of civilization and made them into convenient subjects onto which respectable citizens projected their own preoccupations with sex, viol...