The Srivijaya empire also had trade links with the Middle ... Islam took root in the 15th/16th centuries CE on islands such ...

Ranging from frontier anthropology, through iterations in the Philippines, Sumatra and Central America, "Fields of Empire" investigates the varied ways that Indigenous and Western ethnoscientists ...

Fishing is important in the Indonesian archipelago, which is made up of more than 17,000 islands, the second-largest of which is Sumatra. Rugged West Sumatra, where rainforest clings to the ...