GEORGE McTurnan Kahin, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, was famous for introducing Indonesia to the world. At his house in Cayuga Heights, Ithaca, he displayed a panoramic painting of Mount Merapi. The painting, he said, would always hold a spiritual connection between him and Yogyakarta during the revolution era. He openly admitted that his dissertation, Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia (1952), was in favor of Indonesian independence.