Virginia Matheson HookerVirginia Hooker is the author of Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia, Perceptions of the Haj and the forthcoming A Short History of Malaysia (May 2000). She is Reader in Indonesian in the Faculty of Asian Studies at the NU. Her edition of The Precious Gift is to be republished in a Malay Classics series edited by Anwar Ibrahim, the Deputy PM of Malaysia. Read More Read Less