Bill Dalton's Indonesia Handbook, published by Moon Publications in California, was the main English language tourist guide book for the whole of Indonesia between the 1970s and the 1990s.
[1] This led Dalton to form his company, Moon Publications, when he returned to California, and expand and publish his Travel Notes as a full book, the Indonesia Handbook.
During the Suharto era the guide book was at times banned.
By the time of the last edition, published in 1995, the book was 1,380 pages long.
[3] Dalton sold his interest in Moon Publications in 1999, and the new owners dropped the title.