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 …

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 …

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 …

For many citizens in postcolonial states like Indonesia, the reality and experience of
citizenship depend not just on the content of laws and regulations but also on the strength of …

" An impressive line-up of international contributors provides a comprehensive and
accessible introduction to politics in the developing world. The first four parts explore the …

In Activist Archives Doreen Lee tells the origins, experiences, and legacy of the radical
Indonesian student movement that helped end the thirty-two-year dictatorship in May 1998 …

Land rights are uneven in Indonesia as they favor government over citizens as rights
subjects. Moreover, legal complexity and social inequality make legal knowledge about land …