Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Centenary Medal
Merle Calvin RicklefsAMFAHA (17 July 1943 – 29 December 2019) was an American-born Australian scholar of the history and current affairs of Indonesia.[1][2]
Ricklefs was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on 17 July 1943[3] and died on 29 December 2019, aged 76.[4]
Ricklef's publications focused on the history of Mataram, Kartasura, Yogyakarta, Surakarta (locations in Central Java). He also regularly updated his history of Indonesia, A History of Modern Indonesia, ca. 1300 to the present.[1]
The Government of Australia awarded him in 2001 the Centenary Medal for "service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of Indonesia".[9]
In June 2017, Ricklefs was made a member of the Order of Australia.[10]
In the early 1980s Ricklefs became deeply involved in education for indigenous Australians, acting as the driving force behind and co-founding the Monash Orientation Scheme for Aborigines, the first bridging program for Aboriginal people in an Australian university.[1] This aimed to prepare Aboriginal students, who suffered from great educational disadvantage, for university study. The scheme was a runaway success and by the time Ricklefs left Monash in 1993 it had been responsible for roughly doubling the number of Aboriginal university graduates.[11]
Ricklefs was also involved in the 1980s 'immigration debate' in Australia, which was sparked when his counterpart at the University of Melbourne, Geoffrey Blainey, argued that Australia should limit Asian immigration.[1]
Jogjakarta under Sultan Mangkubumi, 1749–1792: A history of the division of Java. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.[12]
Yogyakarta di bawah Sultan Mangkubumi, 1749-1792: Sejarah pembagian Jawa. Transl. Hartono Hadikusumo & E. Setiyawati Alkhatab. Ed. Revianto Budi Santosa.[13] (Revised Indonesian edition of Jogjakarta under Sultan Mangkubumi.)
The seen and unseen worlds in Java, 1726–49: History, literature and Islam in the court of Pakubuwana II. New South Wales: Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen & Unwin and University of Hawaii Press, 1998.[17]
Co-authored book
Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain: A catalogue of manuscripts in Indonesian languages in British public collections by M. C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve. London Oriental Bibliographies, vol. 5.[18]
Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain: A catalogue of manuscripts in Indonesian languages in British public collections; New edition with addenda et corrigenda by M.C. Ricklefs, P. Voorhoeve† and Annabel Teh Gallop. Jakarta:[19]
Co-authored and edited books
Edited and translated book
Pantheism and monism in Javanese suluk literature: Islamic and Indian mysticism in an Indonesian setting[20]
^ abcdeAnthony Reid, 'Merle Calvin Ricklefs, AM July 17, 1943 - December 29, 2019', Emeritus (The Australian National University Emeritus Faculty e-magazine), 11 (8), September 2020.
^"Southeast Asian Collection". Archived from the original on 27 February 2006. Retrieved 15 May 2007. Southeast Asian Collection held at University of Cambridge Cambridge University Library
^Davison, G . & Murphy, K. University Unlimited: The Monash Story (Melbourne 2012) 173-175
^Ricklefs, M. C. (Merle Calvin) (1974), Jogjakarta under Sultan Mangkubumi, 1749-1792 : a history of the division of Java, Oxford University Press, ISBN978-0-19-713578-5
^Ricklefs, M. C. (Merle Calvin) (2002), Yogyakarta di bawah Sultan Mangkubumi, 1749-1792 : sejarah pembagian Jawa, Matabangsa, ISBN978-979-9471-09-3
^Ricklefs, M. C. (Merle Calvin); University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies (1978), Modern Javanese historical tradition : a study of an original Kartasura chronicle and related materials, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, ISBN978-0-7286-0045-4
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Ricklefs, M. C. (Merle Calvin); Asian Studies Association of Australia (1993), War, culture, and economy in Java, 1677-1726 : Asian and European imperialism in the early Kartasura period, Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen & Unwin, ISBN978-1-86373-380-9
^Ricklefs, M. C. (Merle Calvin); Asian Studies Association of Australia (1998), The seen and unseen worlds in Java 1726-1749 : history, literature and islam in the Court of Pakubuwana II, Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen & Unwin and University of Hawaii Press, ISBN978-1-86448-627-8
^Ricklefs, M. C. (Merle Calvin); Voorhoeve, Peter (1977), Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain : a catalogue of manuscripts in Indonesian languages in British public collections, Oxford University Press, ISBN978-0-19-713592-1
^Ricklefs, M. C. (Merle Calvin); Gallop, Annabel Teh, (author.); Voorhoeve, P. (Petrus), (author.); École française d'Extrême-Orient (publisher.) (2014), Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain : a catalogue of manuscripts in Indonesian languages in British public collections = Naskah-naskah Indonesia di Inggris : katalogus naskah dalam bahasa Nusantara di perpustakaan umum di Inggris (New edition with addenda et corrigenda ed.), Jakarta Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient, ISBN978-2-85539-189-2{{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Zoetmulder, P. J. (Petrus Josephus); Ricklefs, M. C. (Merle Calvin), 1943-; Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (1995), Pantheism and monism in Javanese suluk literature : Islamic and Indian mysticism in an Indonesian setting, KITLV Press, 1995, c1994, ISBN978-90-6718-082-5{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
