Not all politics is local. Not even local politics is necessarily local. The reemergence of local
politics is not comparable to the nationalization of politics but is rather an element making …

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 …

This article reviews the part played by lower class groups in Indonesia's democratic
transition and consolidation. While mainstream analyses emphasize dominance of …

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 …

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

How do politicians win elected office in Indonesia? To find out, research teams fanned out
across the country prior to Indonesia's 2014 legislative election to record campaign events …

What kind of economic development curtails clientelistic politics? Most of the literature
addressing this relationship focuses narrowly on vote buying, resulting in theories that …

Moluccan Conflict--The Birth of FKAWJ--For the Defense of the Muslim Umma (Muslim
Community)--The Fatwas on Jihad--Structures of Mobilization--From Apolitical Salafism to …

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 …

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 …