This volume casts new light on the intercultural and personal ties among Indonesians and Australians in the context of the post-war rise of secular volunteering and the unique political and social conditions then prevailing in the newly formed Indonesian Republic. It brings together previously unpublished manuscripts by Betty Feith, who has combined teaching and lecturing with a lifelong involvement in church and humanitarian service, and Kurnianingrat Ali Sastroamijoyo, an educator who worked extensively in English language teaching and training, and someone who took an active part in the Indonesian Revolution. It comprises three parts. The first two parts include substantive works of historical narrative and memoir. The third, a collection of letters. The book provides a birds-eye view of the ethos and workings of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme, an initiative under which Australian graduates were employed in the Indonesian civil service. Bettys nuanced and insightful narrative reflects her intimate involvement in the inception and running of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme. Researchers will be interested in the extensive bibliographic references to records of the Scheme contained in Putting in a Stitch or Two. Kurnianingrats reminiscences, Other Worlds in the Past, offer insights into Indonesian social and cultural history at a critical time for the nation, as historian Jean Gelman Taylor observes, at the same time as they chronicle Kurnianingrats own experiences and perspective. Kurnianingrats memoirs include a fascinating and moving account of daily life in occupied Yogyakarta during the struggle for independence against the Dutch. A common thread in Other Worlds in the Past and Putting in a Stitch or Two relates to the government inspectorate in Jakarta where, in the 1950s, Indonesians Kurnianingrat and Harumani Rudolph-Sudirdjo formed lasting friendships with Australian volunteer graduates, Betty Feith and Ailsa Thomson Zainuddin. The mutual interests, connections and commitments among this circle of friends are illustrated in the final section of Bridges of Friendship, in which extracts of correspondence exchanged between Kurnianingrat, Ailsa and Harumani reveal the contributions made by Ailsa and Harumani to Kurnianingrats writing project.