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.[7][8][9][10] Initially a "very modest, cyclostyled publication issued by the Department of Indonesian and Malaysian Studies" [11] 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."[12] 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."[13] Notable issues were devoted to reviews on contemporary Indonesian politics from
KITLV[14] and
Reformasi era Indonesia and literature,[15] though the journal also struggled with the preference of Australian researchers to be published in the United States.[16]
^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.
^Macknight, Campbell. "Another transition for RIMA." RIMA (2014): 1-10.
^Cribb, Robert. "Indonesian studies in the Netherlands," Asian Studies Review 14.1 (1990): 89-94.
^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
^Haridas, Swami Anand. "4 Southeast Asian Studies in Australia." A Colloquium on Southeast Asian Studies. ISEAS Publishing, 1980.