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41. Violent Conflicts in Indonesia

    Analysis, Representation, Resolution

    Edited by Charles A. Coppel

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    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...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
42. Ending Forced Labour in Myanmar

    Engaging a Pariah Regime

    By Richard Horsey

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) efforts since the early 1990s to address the forced labour situation in Myanmar represent a rare example of success in influencing the behaviour of that regime, and this book gives a first-hand account of these efforts. As the ILO’s representative in...

    Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
43. Environmental Cooperation in Southeast Asia

    ASEAN's Regime for Trans-boundary Haze Pollution

    By Paruedee Nguitragool

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    One of the most challenging environmental threats to the ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been the haze, the sickening and deadly cloud of smoky pollution caused by widespread burning of land and forests in Indonesia. This book examines both the threat and...

    Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
44. Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia

    Jakarta's security and autonomy polices in Aceh

    By Michelle Ann Miller

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    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...

    Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge
45. Financial Fragility and Instability in Indonesia

    By Yasuyuki Matsumoto

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    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...

    Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge
46. Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia

    Golkar in the post-Suharto era

    By Dirk Tomsa

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    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...

    Published January 3rd 2010 by Routledge
47. Democratization in Post-Suharto Indonesia

    Edited by Marco Bunte, Andreas Ufen

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    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...

    Published December 14th 2009 by Routledge
48. Ethnic Politics in Burma

    States of Conflict

    By Ashley South

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    This book examines the ideas which have structured half a century of civil war in Burma, and the roles which political elites and foreign networks - from colonial missionaries to aid worker activists - have played in mediating understandings of ethnic conflict in the country. The book includes a...

    Published October 18th 2009 by Routledge
49. Chinese Big Business in Indonesia

    The State of Capital

    By Christian Chua

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    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...

    Published October 18th 2009 by Routledge
50. Communal Violence and Democratization in Indonesia

    Small Town Wars

    By Gerry van Klinken

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    Through close scrutiny of empirical materials and interviews, this book uniquely analyzes all the episodes of long-running, widespread communal violence that erupted during Indonesia’s post-New Order transition. Indonesia democratised after the long and authoritarian New Order regime ended in May...

    Published September 16th 2009 by Routledge