Peter Carey

Who is Peter Carey?

Peter Carey is a British historian and author who studies East Timor, Java and Burma. He was the Laithwaite fellow of Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford. His major early work has concentrated on the history of Diponegoro, the British in Java and the Java War. He is currently completing an Oral History of the Indonesian Occupation of East Timor, 1975–99 and a biography of Prince Dipanagara.

Carey regularly comments on the history and politics of Southeast Asia to the British media. He is currently the Country Director for the Cambodia Trust, in Jakarta, Indonesia