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In April 1955, delegates from 29 Asian and African countries and colonies gathered in Bandung, Indonesia, for the Asian-African Conference. What was the message that these 29 delegations were seeking to transmit to their domestic and global audience? Why was a conference of postcolonial states and anticolonial movements perceived as so important in international politics by its contemporaries, and why has it had such lasting effects?

“Studies focusing mainly on the Bandung conference are still rare. Wildan Sena Utama’s study is, therefore, all the more important. It provides an up-to-date and concise review of the most recent studies on this topic and places the conference in its historical context.” – Jürgen Dinkel

“Vision for the Future takes us on a journey into the possibilities and perils of the internationalism of the era of decolonisation. This story, with a searching look into the roots of the 1955 Bandung conference and all the contradictions between the 29 countries that came to Indonesia, gives us a glimpse of the difficulty of forming a bloc of the South. The ugliness of old rigidities and the shallowness of the old ruling classes shines through. Somewhere underneath this story is the cry of the working class and peasantry, which did not grip the levers of power in enough of the states of the South that tried to build a world of equality and peace.” — Vijay Prashad