Southeast Asia
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Law and Religion in Indonesia
Faith, Conflict and the Courts
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Understanding and managing inter-religious relations, particularly between Muslims and Christians, presents a challenge for states around the world. This book investigates legal disputes between religious communities in the world’s largest majority-Muslim, democratic country, Indonesia. It...
To Be Published September 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Film Censorship in the Asia-Pacific Region
Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia Compared
Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies
Film censorship has always been a controversial matter, particularly in jurisdictions with restrictive state-based censorship systems. This book reviews the film censorship system in the Asia-Pacific by comparing the systems used in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia. It identifies the key issues...
Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
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Legal Pluralism in Indonesia
Bridging the Unbridgeable
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
With the revival of Islamic law and adat (customary) law in the country, this book investigates the history and phenomenon of legal pluralism in Indonesia. It looks at how the ideal of modernity in Indonesia has been characterized by a state-driven effort in the post-colonial era to make the...
Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Legal Pluralism in Indonesia
Bridging the Unbridgeable
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
With the revival of Islamic law and adat (customary) law in the country, this book investigates the history and phenomenon of legal pluralism in Indonesia. It looks at how the ideal of modernity in Indonesia has been characterized by a state-driven effort in the post-colonial era to make the...
Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore
Making Future Citizens
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Justice and Governance in East Timor
Indigenous Approaches and the 'New Subsistence State'
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Focusing on the case study of Timor Leste, this book presents the New Subsistence State as a conceptual tool for understanding governance challenges in countries characterised by subsistence economic and social relations. It examines the ways in which Timor Leste conforms to the typology of the New...
Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
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Corruption and Law in Indonesia
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Indonesia has transformed from one of South East Asia’s most repressive and centralised political systems to its most decentralised and democratic. Despite this, obstacles still remain that hinder Indonesia achieving the ‘rule of law’, and in particular, the country is consistently ranked as having...
Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region
Towards Institution Building
Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about building institutions for human rights protection in the Asia-Pacific region, in the wake of...
Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
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Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia
Trial by Army
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
This book is an examination of American army legal proceedings that resulted from a series of moments when soldiers in a war zone crossed a line between performing their legitimate functions and committing crimes against civilians, or atrocities. Using individual judicial proceedings held within...
Published April 19th 2011 by Routledge
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Torture, Truth and Justice
The Case of Timor-Leste
Series: Politics in Asia
This book highlights how, and why, torture is such a compelling tool for states and other powerful actors. While torture has a short-term use value for perpetrators, it also creates a devastating legacy for victims, their families and communities. In exposing such repercussions, this book addresses...
Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Women, Islam and Everyday Life
Renegotiating Polygamy in Indonesia
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
This book examines Islam and women’s everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy. It discusses the competing interpretations of the Qur’anic verses that are at the heart of Muslim controversies over polygamy, with some groups believing that Islam enshrines...
Published April 10th 2011 by Routledge
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Ending Forced Labour in Myanmar
Engaging a Pariah Regime
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
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Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia
Divorce and Marriage Law
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
This book examines gender, state and social power in Indonesia, focusing in particular on state regulation of divorce from 1965 to 2005 and its impact on women. Indonesia experienced high divorce rates in the 1950s and 1960s, followed by a remarkable decline. Already falling divorce rates were...
Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
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Gender and Transitional Justice
The Women of East Timor
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
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...
Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge