...This chapter discusses three Asian states: South Korea, Thailand, and Indonesia. The “good” case, South Korea, has been remarkably successful in consolidating democracy and carving out a proper place in the new institutional architecture for its armed forces. The “bad” case is Thailand where, after...

... then extends the book's argument in three different directions. First, it looks at transitions in Algeria and Indonesia. Second, it explores the relationship between elite and mass polarization. Finally, the chapter highlights the importance of identity and polarization as conditioned by repressive experiences...

...—Indonesia's peaceful interpretation of Islam has been perpetually under threat from outside by more violent, intolerant Islamic traditions that were originally imposed by conquering Arab armies. This book challenges this widely accepted narrative, offering a more balanced assessment of the intellectual...

...This chapter discusses the colonization of West Papua by Indonesia. It explores debates on whether Indonesia's settlement projects in West Papua were used to Javanize West Papua. According to an unexplored trove of internal government documents, Indonesian settler colonialism in West Papua over...

...This chapter observes Habib Luthfi's labor of recovering Indonesia's saintly past. Much of this labor has been devoted to the hagiographical composition of his own little-known and unrecorded forefathers. The chapter describes a hagiographical composition that presents Habib Luthfi as a lineal...

... truth and justice initiatives Argentina Bosnia Germany Japan South Africa communism Cultural Revolution China Great Leap Forward China Hiroshima Nagasaki PKI Partai Komunis Indonesia Zurbuchen Mary Carter Jimmy Central Intelligence Agency CIA Freedom of Information Act US US State...

... by Western Christians as the key to its regeneration by the Christian gospel and “modern” ideas of reform. Egypt was also the home of Africa's oldest church, the Coptic Orthodox Church. The second case study examines a younger Christian community within a younger nation, that of the church in Indonesia...

...This book offers a new understanding of Arabic's global position as the basis for comparing cultural and literary histories in countries separated by vast distances. By tracing controversies over the use of Arabic in three countries with distinct colonial legacies, Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal...

...This book explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century—the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965–66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention...

...This chapter examines comparable incarnations of Islamophobia expressed by adventurers and stay-at-homes from the Netherlands. It begins by focusing on early modern Dutch descriptions of Muslims and Dutch attitudes toward Islam more generally, as well as the fear of Indonesia's “bad Muslims...

...Figure 1. Southeast Asia’s Malay Hubs, ca. 1200–1600. Figure 2. Sharh umm al-barahin, ms ca. nineteenth century. Author’s collection. This introductory chapter documents what is known of the process of Islamization across Indonesia and argues that the present knowledge...

...This chapter examines how Snouck's successors, trained in the history of Islam through the use of manuscripts he had collected, favored a particular strand of Muslim activism in what people were now increasingly calling “Indonesia.” Snouck may have been physically absent from Indonesia...

...This chapter recounts the historical significance of the first Asia–Africa conference held in Bandung, Indonesia in 1955, which was likened to the European Renaissance. The conference, presided over by Indonesian President Ahmed Sukarno, brought together newly independent states from Asia...

... PKI Partai Komunis Indonesia Sukarno Argentina Bosnia Cambodia Central Intelligence Agency CIA Chile China genocide information about 1965–66 events Mao Tse tung mass incarceration Nazi Germany Rwanda Soviet Union silence silencing World History Project generals abduction...

... looking critically at the alternatives. generals abduction and execution of Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base Nasution Abdul Haris September 30th Movement Untung Council of Generals Indonesian Army media Radio Republik Indonesia RRI Sukarno Kostrad Komando Cadangan Strategis Angkatan Darat...