... force outside of the long-established elites became visible with the election of Joko Widodo as president. Arab Spring causes Indonesia Jokowi Joko Widodo Subianto Prabowo Suharto Carothers Thomas Democracy democratization Huntington Samuel Pepinsky Thomas Britain Colonialism Communism...

...This chapter reviews a body of research on sacred values and cultural conflict. Research conducted in the West Bank, Iran, Indonesia, and India reveals that when people transform a resource, idea, or activity into a sacred value, normative approaches to dispute resolution may fail. In a series...

...Is there any evidence in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand (IMT) of successful selective interventions in markets? The simple answer to this question is yes, especially in rice agriculture, where governments felt a pressing political need to supply rice—the basic staple—at reasonable prices...

...Studies of total factor productivity growth (TFPG) in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand (IMT) are all over the map—some show high TFPG, others show modest or no TFPG. More can be gained by examining the national innovation systems in IMT and looking for evidence of technological learning within...

...Nadirsyah Hosen, Indonesia: A Presidential System with Checks and Balances. In: Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity. Edited by Rainer Grote and Tilmann J. Röder, Oxford University Press (2012). © Oxford University Press. DOI...

... individual Asian states is analysed, along with a more detailed examination of EU policy towards Indonesia both prior to and after the country's 1998 transition. A final section examines the European response to the Asian financial crisis and analyses the significance of this for the EU's democracy and good...

...This chapter sketches the buildup to the mass killing (politicide) of communists and communist sympathizers in Indonesia, during 1965 to 1966. Our key contribution is to explain why ordinary individuals, not belonging to the elite, might wish to participate in the act of murder. The mass murder...

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..., facing westward; the other group faced east toward Mecca. This directional dispute, of course, was an embodiment of deeper disputes involving Javanese culture, politics, and whether the future of the Surinamese Javanese was in Suriname or in newly independent Indonesia. Central to Hoefte’s study...

...In this chapter, Laurens Bakker argues that brutal, extralegal violence against individuals or small groups considered as a threat to local society has a long and varied history in Indonesia. Its usage includes extrajudicial killings and mutilations of thieves and other wrongdoers by local...

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... Friedrich Heidegger Martin Hume David Kant Immanuel Locke John Nietzsche Friedrich Plato impiety Student activism Conservative Islamists Liberal Muslims Indonesia At the encouragement of his peers, a twenty-year-old Indonesian undergraduate named Hassan stepped gingerly into a shallow basin...

...This book examines novel ways of being Muslim, where religious dispositions are achieved through techniques that have little or no precedent in classical Islamic texts or concepts. At the center of the book are rival groups of Indonesian student activists in Indonesia who are behaving in similarly...

...This chapter examines how space and its spatial tropes become “imperative” signifiers for people's subjectivity, particularly at moments of circulations and encounters across different geographical boundaries. Drawing on beauty advertisements published in women's magazines after Indonesia gained...

... skin whitening products advertisements for Unilever Africans Burke Timothy Etcoff Nancy ethnic groups in Indonesia Glenn Evelyn Pierre Jemima skin color South Africa Thomas Lynn women Zimbabwe skin whitening products used in affect affective vocabularies Geertz Clifford gendered...

...This chapter discusses how returnees from al Mustafa International University, including those from the International Centre for Islamic Studies, its preceding institution, have played a significant role in the development of the Shi'i community in Sunni dominated Indonesia. Pursuing Islamic...

... Indonesia Errington Shelly judges of competitions qurʾanic recitation Arab cultures aurat “shameful” competitions Egypt Indonesia Khodijah Ibu Nasrullah Alawiyya Tuti busana Muslim Muslim fashion Habibie B J majlis taklim women's study groups Sukarnoputri Megawati Wahid Abdurrahman Jakarta...

... interests in the maximization of profit. Bambang Trihatmodjo Bukit Jonggol Asri proposal Jakarta Indonesia corruption Cowherd Robert Indonesia Jakarta Indonesia Jakarta Metropolitan Region JMR new town projects Silver Chris Southern California model replication in Asian cities Suharto Trihatmodjo...

...This chapter tells the history of a rattan village called Moa, nestled between steep forested ridges and a cascading river in the mountains of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Moa is home to approximately seventy-two households that belong to an ethnolinguistic group known as the Uma. The livelihoods...

...This chapter shows how the ruko—a Chinese commercial establishment—in its various expressions and transformations over time, engages in the history, culture, and politics of thriving urban environments in Indonesia. There have been many negative accounts on the presence...