From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: September 1, 1993| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1993 Singapore University Press Pte Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Mohammad Hatta -- unlike most politicians of our era -- was a man of high principles, who devoted most of his life to the service of his country, personally benefiting little, and enduring much. Deliar Noer has special qualifications to write Mohammad Hatta's biography. He is a fellow Sumatran who, in the 1950s as a student, was a member of a group that met once a week with the Vice-President. Afterwards Noer attended Cornell University where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He has since become a prolific author with special expertise on the modernist Muslim movement in ...