Democracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its
election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations. Edward Aspinall and Ward …

In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance
of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of …

Treating the “state” as a finished product gets in the way of understanding it. The state is
always in the making. This article, which acts as the Introduction to a special issue, argues …

Plantations are back. Colonial-style large scale corporate monoculture of industrial crops on
concession land is again expanding in the global south. The biggest expansion is in …

What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker
draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation's Denver headquarters and …

The Islamization of politics in Indonesia after 1998 presents an underexplored puzzle: why
has there been a rise in the number of shari'a laws despite the electoral decline of Islamist …

Scholars of Indonesia are still searching for ways to characterize the ordering principles of
the new post-Suharto politics. In the 1950s and 1960s, Clifford Geertz's notion of aliran …

This report provides an overview of arguments explaining the risk of corruption. Corrupt acts
are subject to decision making authority and assets available for grabbing. These assets can …

An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia,
and how people navigate dispossession​ The old aphorism" possession is nine-tenths of …

Indonesia is alternately lauded as a democratization success story and derided as an
exemplar of low-quality democracy. This article explains both Indonesian democracy's …