The Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs was an Australia-based scholarly journal that ran from 1967 to 2014, dealing with "political, economic, social and cultural aspects of Indonesia and Malaysia." It is indexed in the Bibliography of Asian Studies and included in Informit (database)"Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs." Vol. 48, Issues 1 and 2. Informit database. Accessed 2021. as well as Scimago and in Scopus.
Indonesian teaching had begun at the University of Sydney in 1958, and ultimately led to the establishment of the journal, which was initially twice yearly.Robson, S. (2008). Indonesian at the University of Sydney in the Early 1960s. Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 42(1), 185–189.Fox, James J. "10. A Genealogy of Southeast Asian Studies in Australia: Scholars and Their Works." The Historical Construction of Southeast Asian Studies. ISEAS Publishing, 2013. 349-398.Reid, Anthony. "«Alterity» and «Reformism»: The Australian Frontier in Indonesian Studies." Archipel 21.1 (1981): 7-18.Inglis, Christine. "Asian studies at the University of Sydney." Asian Studies Association of Australia Review 4.3 (1981): 47-51. Initially a "very modest, cyclostyled publication issued by the Department of Indonesian and Malaysian Studies" Macknight, Campbell. "Another transition for RIMA." RIMA (2014): 1-10. of the University of Sydney, the journal sought to "publish scholarly studies relating to societies and cultures, understood in the broadest terms, to be found in Indonesia, Malaysia and surrounding areas." From 2003, the journal was published by the "Association for the Publication of Indonesian and Malaysian Studies which was incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory." Notable issues were devoted to reviews on contemporary Indonesian politics from KITLVCribb, Robert. "Indonesian studies in the Netherlands," Asian Studies Review 14.1 (1990): 89-94. and Reformasi era Indonesia and literature,Arimbi, Diah Ariani. Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers Representation, Identity and Religion of Muslim Women in Indonesian Fiction . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. Print, p. 163 though the journal also struggled with the preference of Australian researchers to be published in the United States.Haridas, Swami Anand. "4 Southeast Asian Studies in Australia." A Colloquium on Southeast Asian Studies. ISEAS Publishing, 1980.
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