Gangs and militias have been a persistent feature of social and political life in Indonesia.
During the authoritarian New Order regime they constituted part of a vast network of sub …

Identity and Pleasure: The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture critically examines what
media and screen culture reveal about the ways urban-based Indonesians attempted to …

Using the high-profile 2017 blasphemy trial of the former governor of Jakarta, Basuki
'Ahok'Tjahaja Purnama, as its sole case study, this book assesses whether Indonesia's …

Understanding and managing inter-religious relations, particularly between Muslims and
Christians, presents a challenge for states around the world. This book investigates legal …

Pengurus Besar Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU, the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama) claims to
have 60 million members in Indonesia (Arifianto 2017: 257), and approximately 30 million …

In Indonesia, the events of 1st October 1965 were followed by a campaign to annihilate the
Communist Party and its alleged sympathisers. It resulted in the murder of an estimate of …

This article explores the foundations of religious influence in politics and society. We show
that an important Islamic institution fostered the entrenchment of Islamism at a critical …

By emphasizing that individual religious freedom depends for its realization on complex
social embeddings, the concept of institutional religious freedom provides an important …

Recent writing in anthropology, particularly of Southeast Asia, suggests a “spectral” turn
within ethnographic theorizing, influenced by Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx and wide …

What do Indonesia's democratisation efforts look like when examined from the lens of
human rights? Using the 1965 violence as a case study this article analyses human rights …