In contemporary Indonesia, a new generation of Muslim pop preachers and self‐help gurus
tap into, and trade on, the symbolic and economic capital of Islam, science, and media …

In The Made-Up State, Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, who compose one of
Indonesia's trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way of captivating the …

Physicians and scientists dominated the first generation of nationalists in at least three East
Asian colonies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the Philippines under the …

During the colonial period, mental health care policy in the Dutch East Indies was centred on
the mental hospital, which provided custodial care. In 1949, independent Indonesia …

During the nineteenth and the early twentieth century, European physicians and botanists
working in the Dutch East Indies displayed an eager interest in Indonesian indigenous …

During the first part of the twentieth century, the colonial administration of the Dutch East
Indies developed an extensive mental healthcare system consisting of four large mental …

This article investigates the ways in which the Dutch colonial state dealt with a phenomenon
known as the Atjeh-moorden ('Aceh murders'), the persistent suicide-attacks directed at the …

For contemporary Malay/Indonesian speakers, dukun signifies an indigenous healer.
Etymologically, however, the word dukun is not native to Malay/Indonesian. Some say dukun …

This article examines Emil Kraepelin's notion of comparative psychiatry and relates it to the
clinical research he conducted at psychiatric hospitals in South-East Asia (1904) and the …

Abstract The new Government of India did not introduce legislation fornative'lunacy in
colonial India as a measure of social control after the uprisings of 1857-8; discussions about …