Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia is one of the first substantial comparative
studies of contemporary Indonesia and Malaysia, homes to the world's largest Muslim …

This book examines the emergent challenges to authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia,
particularly during the 1990s. Women, public intellectuals, arts workers, industrial workers, …

The phenomenal growth of the so-called urban middle classes in many Asian societies,
following the sustained capitalist industrialization of the last quarter of the twentieth century, has …

This chapter primarily assesses state and labour relations in Indonesia, and the pressure
being exerted upon the framework that has governed them since the fall of Suharto and the …

The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) reported that Democracy Index of West Sumatra
province has decreased significantly in 2016. This fact is quite an anomaly if it refers to the …

… The limited availability of previously published information about the livelihoods of the
fishers and aquaculturists in Penang has made this study challenging. Literatures from the past …

… to an antiquated cultural system, Minangkabau women will always experience challenges
in representing themselves in the political world, and it will be difficult to change their position. …

… The famous mediums have several weaknesses that ultimately indicate how hard messages
are delivered. The delivery is increasingly heavy due to the low literacy Arabic language, …