JACKSON, Beverley Additional Author VAN TILL, Margreet Additional Author McKAY, David Additional Author mixed material bibliography Singapore National University of Singapore Press 2011 en English

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x, 282 p.; 23 cm. Banditry was rife around Batavia (modern Jakarta) during the late colonial period. 'Banditry in West Java' identifies the bandits and describes both their working methods and their motives, which at times went beyond simple self-enrichment. The author also explores the world of the victims of the robbers, mainly city-dwellers, who viewed the bandits as the antithesis of civilization and made them into convenient objects onto which respectable citizens projected their own preoccupations with sex, violence, and magic. Banditry was brought under control following reforms to the colonial police force in the Dutch East Indies in the early 1920s, but the bandit tradition lived on in Javanese popular imagination and folk culture. In particular it is found in tales of Si Pitung, a Robin Hood figure who flourished in nineteenth-century Batavia. Brigands and robbers Outlaws - Indonesia - Jakarta Jakarta - History 364.10660959822 9789971695026 RAFFLES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL To Learn , To Lead , To Love 364.10660959822 VAN b s1404033 banditry.jpg.jpg 6929 2017-02-01 08:48:39 2017-02-01 08:48:39 machine generated