From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: March 1, 1994| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1994 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

For several years Djohan Hanafiah has been an influential force behind local efforts to make Palembang's history better known among Indonesians, and to this end has published several books that deal with episodes, individuals and places of historical importance. The present work, concerned primarily with the complex events that occurred in Palembang in the early nineteenth century, takes its title from the fort Kuto Besak or the "new palace", built at the end of the eighteenth century and still standing today. The author considers this impressive royal complex to be "the centre of ...