J. Sudarminta, Epistemologi dasar: pengantar filfasat pengetahuan [Basic Epistemology: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Knowledge] Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Penerbit Kanisius, 2002. 196 pp. Rp 50,000. Anto Mohsin © 2020 Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan There are very few STS books written and published in Bahasa Indonesia; only those of which I am familiar are all written and published in English. 1 This makes Epistemologi dasar: pengantar filfasat pengetahuan [Basic Epistemology: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Knowledge] the closest to what I would consider an STS book. It explores how we know what we know and the different ways of knowing. Sudarminta, the book’s author, also draws from Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolu- tions (1970) and Steve Fuller ’s Social Epistemology (1991), two texts that I am sure many STS scholars are familiar with or at least have heard about. Epistemologi dasar is not a recently published book, but like many good books, it has a long shelf life. 2 This book was written by Justinus Sudarminta, a Jesuit priest and professor of philosophy at Sekolah Tinggi Filsafat Driyarkara, a private university in Jakarta. Founded in 1969, the institution was named after the late Dr. Nicolaus Driyarkara, a professor of philosophy who taught at the University of Indonesia and Sanata Dharma Teachers’ College. 3 At the time the book was published, Sudarminta A. Mohsin Liberal Arts Program, Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar email: anto.mohsin@northwestern.edu 1 Published monograph-length works written by Indonesian STS scholars that I am aware of are Merlyna Lim’s @rchipelago Online: the Internet and Political Activism in Indonesia (2005), which is her finished dissertation completed at the University of Twente, and Sulfikar Amir’s The Technological State in Indonesia: The Co- constitution of High Technology and Authoritarian Politics (2012), which I previously reviewed for this journal. Of course, non-Indonesian scholars have also produced STS-informed books about the Netherlands East Indies (how Indonesia was known when it was a Dutch colony) and about postindependence Indonesia. These include Rudolf Mrazek’s Engineers of Happy Land (2002), Suzanne Moon’s Technology and Ethical Idealism (2007), Andrew Goss’s The Floracrats (2011), Vivek Neelakantan’s Science, Public Health and Nation-Building in Soekarno-Era Indonesia (2017), and most recently Hans Pols’ Nurturing Indonesia (2018). 2 The copy that I have was in its ninth printing in 2010, and copies of the book are still being sold on an Indonesian online retail store (www.bukalapak.com). 3 Institut Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Sanata Dharma was transformed into a university in 1993. Now it is called Sanata Dharma University. It is a Jesuit university in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (2020) 14:183–185 DOI 10.1215/18752160-8235379