Indonesia, Multatuli and Me

Editor's Note:An American development administrator sees parallels in Suharto's Indonesia and the Dutch colonial past and also sees a way to convey his sentiments just as a colonial administrator did in an earlier era. --Ed. Indonesia is never out of the news. An immense country in every measure of the word: an archipelago of nearly 2 million sq kilometers with over 17,000 islands of which about six thousand are inhabited. About three times the size of Texas it is home to over 240 million people who are mostly Muslim adherents but with significant Christian and Hindu religious practitioners, including, of course, the well-know island of Bali which induces millions of tourists each year ... not to overlook the remarkable Borabador temple to Buddha in Jogjakarta.