Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Southeast Asia.
Gender and Transitional Justice: The Women of East Timor
1st Edition
By Susan Harris Rimmer
May 09, 2012
Gender and Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often ...
The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics: The Deployment of Adat from Colonialism to Indigenism
1st Edition
Edited
By Jamie Davidson, David Henley
April 10, 2012
The Indonesian term adat means ‘custom’ or ‘tradition’, and carries connotations of sedate order and harmony. Yet in recent years it has suddenly become associated with activism, protest and violence. This book investigates the revival of adat in Indonesian politics, identifying its origins, the ...
Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia: Locating the commonweal
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol Warren, John F. McCarthy
March 13, 2012
This book explores the forces reconfiguring local resource governance in Indonesia since 1998, drawing together original field research undertaken in a decade of dramatic political change. Case studies from across Indonesia’s diverse cultural and ecological landscapes focus on the most significant ...
Ethno-Religious Violence in Indonesia: From Soil to God
1st Edition
By Chris Wilson
October 05, 2011
Ethno-religious violence in Indonesia illustrates in detail how and why previously peaceful religious communities can descend into violent conflict. From 1999 until 2000, the conflict in North Maluku, Indonesia, saw the most intense communal violence of Indonesia’s period of democratization. For ...
Timor Leste: Politics, History, and Culture
1st Edition
By Andrea Katalin Molnar
September 14, 2011
This book provides a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asia’s newest nation, Timor Leste (East Timor). This book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, and its political history from the pre-Portuguese period up to 2009. The book pays particular attention to the ...
Muslims in Singapore: Piety, politics and policies
1st Edition
By Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Alexius A. Pereira, Bryan Turner
May 06, 2011
This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and the cultural dominance of its Chinese elite, who are predominantly Buddhist and Christian. ...
Violent Conflicts in Indonesia: Analysis, Representation, Resolution
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles A. Coppel
March 14, 2011
Indonesia is currently affected by many serious conflicts which have arisen as a result of a variety of ethnic, religious and regional tensions. Presenting important new thinking on violent conflict in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, this book examines a selection of conflicts in ...
Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia: Jakarta's security and autonomy polices in Aceh
1st Edition
By Michelle Ann Miller
August 10, 2010
Armed separatist movements in Papua, East Timor and Aceh have been a serious problem for Indonesia's central government. This book examines the policies of successive Indonesian governments to contain secessionist forces, focusing in particular on Jakarta's response towards the armed separatist ...
Financial Fragility and Instability in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Yasuyuki Matsumoto
July 21, 2010
This highly relevant study provides an incisive analysis of a critical phase in recent East Asian financial history, exploring the underlying causes of the financial crisis that struck Indonesia during the second half of 1997. Matsumoto’s extensive commercial experience in Indonesian finance ...
Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia: Golkar in the post-Suharto era
1st Edition
By Dirk Tomsa
December 24, 2009
Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia: Golkar in the Post-Suharto Era provides the first in-depth analysis of contemporary Indonesian party politics and the first systematic explanation why Golkar is still the strongest party in Indonesia. Applying a multi-dimensional conceptual framework...
Democratization in Post-Suharto Indonesia
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Bunte, Andreas Ufen
December 11, 2009
In May 1998 the fall of Suharto marked the beginning of a difficult and multi-layered transition process. It was accompanied by intensified conflict in the political arena, a dramatic increase of ethnic and religious violence and the danger of national disintegration. Ten years after the collapse ...
Chinese Big Business in Indonesia: The State of Capital
1st Edition
By Christian Chua
October 19, 2009
The disintegration of Indonesia's New Order regime in 1998 and the fall of Soeharto put an end to the crude forms of centralised authoritarianism and economic protectionism that allowed large Chinese conglomerates to dom- inate Indonesia's private sector. Contrary to all expectations, most of ...