IMPERIALISM IN THE MALAY WORLD 17 18 See Jan Pluvier, "Dutch War Crimes in Indonesia", Journal of Contemporary Asia, VolII, no 2,1972. 14 As Benedict Anderson has recently shown, the conservatism of the leadership of the Indonesian nationalist movement (despite anti-imperialist and ''socialist'5 rhetoric), its over-riding fear of social revolution, drove it inevitably into collaborationist postures; see Java in a Time of Revolution, London, 1972. 15 I have tried to outline elimination of Dutch influence and establishment of American dominance in Indonesia in my article "Oil and Imperialism in East Asia.", Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol I, no 3, 1971 (also available from the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation as a pamphlet). For a brief review of growing US influence in Malaysia see Ron Witton, "Malaysia : Changing Masters", Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol II, no 2, 1972. The situation in Singapore is discussed in a jejune but (therefore ?) very revealing way in Helen Hughes and You Poh Seng (ed.), Foreign Investment and Industrialisation in Singapore, Canberra, 1969; see especially chapters 7 and 8. A work of major importance is that of lain Buchanan, Singapore in Southeast Asia, London, 1972. 16 See Anon., "Hunting with Huntingdon", Dissent, Melbourne, winter 1971-72. 17 The February-March 1972 talks of the Indonesian-Dutch Joint Economic Commission (established in 1%8 for annual talks) yielded only an agreement to sign the minutes, and the chairman of the Dutch side, Dr van Oorschot, told newsmen afterwards that talks on trade had not yet yielded satisfactory results—see Indonesian News, London 1972. 18 I refer to my article cited in footnote 15 above, and to an essay in M Selden and E Friedman (ed.), Imperialism in Asia, Pantheon, New York. 19 The story is a complex one, and by no means yet fully understood far less documented satisfactorily; nevertheless, it is clear that faction contradictions inside the Army and between the Army and other wings of the service gave the US invaluable leverage; see W F Wertheim, "Suharto and the Untung Coup : The missing link ?".Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol I, no 2. 1971, and Ernst Utrecht, "The Indonesian Army as an Instrument of Repression", Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol II, no 1, 1972. 20 It should perhaps be noted that Britain has clung on to something of a predominant position in the north Bornean states of Eastern Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak) and Brunei. Portuguese Timor, of course, remains an archaic anomaly in the region. 21 See Phoumi Vongvichit, Laos and the Victorious Struggle of the Lao People against US neo-colonialism, Neo Lao Haksat editions, 1969, p 85. This excellent book should be read by everyone with any kind of claim to a serious interest in Asia. 22 Vongvichit, op. cit., p 167.