Although the Van Bemmelen (1949) Geology of Indonesia book is generally viewed as the most significant textbook on the geology of Indonesia, its tectonic interpretations are outdated (and were actually already controversial at the time of publication}.
The pioneering book and maps of Warren Hamilton (1979) 'Tectonics of the Indonesian Region' (U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 1078) were the first interpretations of Indonesia tectonics in a plate tectonic framework and remains an unrivalled masterpiece. The book still contains some of the most comprehensive descriptions of the geology of Indonesia, and many of Hamilton's interpretations have withstood the tests of time.
Indonesia/ SE Asia Basement blocks, suture zones The area of the Indonesian archipelago and surrounding SE Asia- Australia/ New Guinea is a very complex mosaic of continental and microcontinental blocks, active and extinct volcanic arcs and associated subduction complexes (commonly with ophiolites, marking suture zones where former ocean basins were consumed} and old and young oceans and marginal ocean basins.
The patterns of Pretertiary Basement are masked and complicated by later evens, like the formation of widespread Tertiary basins (mainly since Middle-Late Eocene time), breakup of margins by marginal basins creation, metamorphism due to magmatic activity, offsets by several large strike slip fault zones, etc.
Mainland SE Asia is also a complex collage of continental blocks, all of which probably once part of the Gondwana supercontinent, but separated from the NW Australia- New Guinea margin during successive episodes of Devonian- Jurassic rifting and seafloor spreading (S China, Indochina, Sibumasu, W Burma, etc.). After Northward drift from the S Hemisphere to equatorial latitudes (recorded by changes in flora and fauna from colder to warmer climates), the various Gondwanan-origin blocks amalgamated with mainland Eurasia during multiple Late Paleozoic- Eocene episodes of collision.

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