Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently
occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth …

This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended
consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralization—effectively …

Through close scrutiny of empirical materials and interviews, this book uniquely analyzes all
the episodes of long-running, widespread communal violence that erupted during …

Three decades of authoritarian rule in Indonesia came to a sudden end in 1998. The
collapse of the Soeharto regime was accompanied by massive economic decline …

Indonesia is experiencing an historic and dramatic shift in political and economic power from
the centre to the local level. The collapse of the highly centralised Soeharto regime allowed …

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 …

Decentralization policy narratives articulated by donor agencies tend to describe
decentralization as a technical process of policy design and implementation, advocating …

This article makes a case for extending social constructivist approaches to the study of
grievance in natural resource conflicts. It does this by analyzing the separatist conflict in …

Indonesia suffered an explosion of religious violence, ethnic violence, separatist violence,
terrorism, and violence by criminal gangs, the security forces and militias in the late 1990s …

There is a major contradiction in contemporary politics: there has been a wave of
democratization that has swept across much of the world, while at the same time …