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Peter (P.B.R.) Carey (born in Rangoon on 30 April 1948) is a British historian and author who specialises in the modern history of Indonesia, Java in particular, and has also written on East Timor (Timor-Leste) and Burma (Myanmar).〔(University of Oxford History Faculty )〕 He was the Laithwaite fellow of Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford, from 1979 to 2008. His major early work concentrated on the history of Diponegoro, the British in Java, 1811–16 and the Java War (1825–30) on which he has published extensively, his major biography of Diponegoro, ''The Power of Prophecy'', appearing in 2007, and a succinct version, ''Destiny; The Life of Prince Diponegoro of Yogyakarta, 1785–1855'', in 2014. He has also conducted research in Lisbon and the UK amongst the exile East Timorese student community for an Oral History of the Indonesian Occupation of East Timor, 1975–99, part of which was published in the Cornell University journal ''Indonesia'' (no.76 (2003 ), pp. 23–67).〔 He is currently writing his memoirs of his 45 years of involvement with Indonesia, 1970–2015. Carey regularly comments on the history and politics of Southeast Asia to the British media.〔(Opinion | News | The First Post )〕 He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Department of Humanities of the University of Indonesia in Jakarta (2013–15), and was previously Indonesia Country Director of the Cambodia Trust (2008–2012), a UK disability charity which he co-founded in November 1989 to address the needs of mine victims in Cambodia. ==Biography== Carey was born to British businessman Thomas Brian Carey and his wife Wendy in Rangoon, Burma, on 30 April 1948. At the age of seven he and his family moved to the United Kingdom. While in school there, Carey gained knowledge of the Javanese prince Diponegoro, who had led a war against the Dutch colonial forces in the East Indies in the 1820s. He later recalled that his interest in the prince was sparked by Diponegoro's closeness to the common people, despite his noble background. In 1969, Carey received a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford, with full honours. The program included a course on the Dutch language, through which he learned more of Prince Diponegoro.〔 He continued on an English Speaking Union scholarship to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, studying there from 1969 to 1970.〔 Between 1971 and 1973 he stayed in Indonesia, completing research into Diponegoro for his doctoral theses.〔 He graduated in 1975,〔 with a thesis titled "Pangeran Dipanagara and the Making of the Java War: Yogyakarta History, 1785-1825". Afterwards, he taught at Oxford, first being elected to a Prize Fellowship at Magdalen College in 1974. He served there until 1979, when he became the Laithwaite Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Trinity College. In 2006 he was made a Grand Officer in the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator by the government of East Timor.〔〔 Carey retired in 2008 and moved to Indonesia,〔 where he serves as an adjunct professor at the Department of Humanities of the University of Indonesia. Carey appeared in a film, ''Prabowo: Sang Patriot'' (''Prabowo: The Patriot''), promoting Prabowo Subianto, a candidate in the 2014 Indonesian presidential election. In the film, Prabowo is presented as having an illustrious family with at least two family members having assisted Diponegoro during the Java War, and Carey praises the self-sacrifice of these two ancestors. However, Carey later stated that the footage of his interview on Prabowo's ancestry had been taken from an entirely separate interview on the Java War without his permission. He then requested that Gerindra both remove his scenes, which was done, and withdraw the film, which was not. This attracted criticism. One critic claimed that Carey was "selling his soul".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Prabowo the Patriot: Indonesia presidential hopeful produces propaganda flop )〕 and another scholar asserted that Carey has a longstanding and close relationship with Prabowo; that Carey had not asked to be removed from the movie; and, that Carey had been vague, obfuscating and introduced irrelevancies in defending his appearance in the film. Carey responded, maintaining that his words had been taken out of context and pointing out that his original interview had not been done as a piece of political propaganda, but as an historical reflection on the impact of the Java War on Indonesian society. At no point in the original interview was any question asked about Prabowo whom Peter Carey has never met. , Carey is married to Lina Suriyanti and lives in Tangerang, Banten. Aside from his continued studies into Javanese culture, including a project to preserve manuscripts from the Majapahit era, he owns a wallpaper shop.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Carey (historian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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