Takashi Shiraishi, The phantom world of Digul: policing as politics in colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941 (National University of Singapore Press: 2020)

This book is a history of political policing in colonial Indonesia from 1926 (when communists led unsuccessful revolts in Java) until 1941 (when the Japanese took over the country during World War II). The book's central thesis is that the police apparatus that the Dutch installed after 1926 shaped politics in Indonesia, and so the history of policing offered here is also simultaneously a political history of Indonesia at the tail end of Dutch colonialism.