This is a textbook designed for the serious student who wishes to investigate the history of
Indonesia since the coming of Islam. It is intended to meet a need found by those whose …

Since 1998, which marked the end of the thirty-three-year New Order regime under
President Suharto, there has been a dramatic increase in ethnic conflict and violence in …

The emergence of violent Muslim vigilante groups in regions of Indonesia where there has
been serious inter-religious conflict is one of the most conspicuous new phenomena in …

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

In Resilient Communities, Jana Krause focuses on civilian agency and mobilization'from
below'and explains violence and non-violence in communal wars. Drawing on extensive …

In order to explain the emergence of violent conflicts, an increasing number of academic
studies have focused on the role of inequalities between 'culturally'defined groups or …

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 …

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 …

The mid-twentieth century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history, when a
range of imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, either by revolution or …