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Title: Democracia o caos.(política y gobierno; Indonesia)(TT: Democracy or chaos.)(TA: politics and government; Indonesia)(Columna)
Author: Juan José Ramírez
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: April 15, 1999
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 65Issue: 2391Page: 51

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This digital document is an article from Contemporary Southeast Asia, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2005. The length of the article is 7866 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This article assesses the impact of decentralization and deregulation reforms in Indonesia on security and law enforcement. The research draws on qualitative and quantitative data from interviews, focus group discussions and household surveys in four selected districts. The main conclusions are that local security bodies are being developed without control by the central government or local level democratic bodies. There is a total luck of transparency and accountability in security affairs and much power is concentrated in the hands of the district heads, the bupati. Policy recommendations include increased central government control over policing, security organizations and law enforcement.

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Title: Authority and law enforcement: local government reforms and security systems in Indonesia.
Author: Stein Kristiansen
Publication: Contemporary Southeast Asia (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 27Issue: 2Page: 236(19)

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This is a book about the failed state and the reorganisation of entrenched political interests in the face of economic and political crisis: the first deep and broad-ranging assessment of Indonesian political economy since the fall of the New Order. ... Read more

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(Un) Civil Society and Political Change in Indonesia provides critical analysis of Indonesia’s civil society and its impact on the country’s democratization efforts that does not only take the classical, pro-democratic actors of civil society into account but also portrays uncivil groups and their growing influence on political processes.

Beittinger-Lee offers a revised categorization of civil society, including a model to define the sphere of ‘uncivil society’ more closely and to identify several subcategories of uncivil society. This is the first book to portrays various uncivil groups in Indonesia, ranging from vigilantes, militias, paramilitaries, youth groups, civil security task forces and militant Islamic (and other religious) groups, ethnonationalist groups to terrorist organizations and groups belonging to organized crime. Moreover, it provides the reader with an overview of Indonesia’s history, its political developments after the democratic opening, main improvements under the various presidents since Suharto’s fall, constitutional amendments and key reforms in human rights legislation.

This book will be of interest to upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in political science and Southeast Asian studies.

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Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia is one of the first substantial comparative studies of contemporary Indonesia and Malaysia, homes to the world's largest Muslim population. Following the collapse of New Order rule in Indonesia in 1998, this book provides an in-depth examination of anti-authoritarian forces in contemporary Indonesia and Malaysia, assessing their problems and prospects. The authors discuss the roles played by women, public intellectuals, arts workers, industrial workers as well as environmental and Islamic activists. They explore how different forms of authoritarianism in the two countries affect the prospects of democratization, and examine the impact and legacy of the diverse social and political protests in Indonesia and Malaysia in the late 1990s. ... Read more

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Though ongoing economic, political, and social crises have kept Indonesia in the headlines for over a year, Southeast Asia's troubled giant remains poorly understood in the United States. This 17,000-island archipelago, ranging over 3,000 miles from east to west, occupies a strategic location that connects the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean to East Asia. The fourth-most populous country in the world, Indonesia is home to as many Muslims as the entire Middle East/North Africa region. It is first among equals in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which is a key part of East Asia's prevailing balance of power. Wrenched by the domestic turmoil that commenced with the collapse of the rupiah in the fall of 1997, Indonesia is only now starting to receive the attention in the United States that its size and potential warrant.

This book responds to the critical need of policymakers, practitioners, and scholars for current research on Indonesia. The authors, all acclaimed international experts on Indonesia, focus on those areas that are particularly nettlesome for Indonesia's new leaders: the economy, religion and ethnicity, civil society, and the military, with a concluding chapter on the International Monetary Fund and U.S. policy toward Indonesia. The result of their inquiries is a rich, forward-looking volume that provides a first glimpse into the future of Indonesia in the post-Suharto era.

Adam Schwarz is a consultant on Southeast Asia based in Washington, D.C., and was the 1997-98 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Jonathan Paris is a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations specializing in the Middle East and Indonesia. During the 1980s he practiced law at the international firm of Coudert Brothers, where he specialized in commercial and banking transactions in Indonesia. ... Read more

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First Public Reference from Foreign Authors
As I know, this paperback is the first publication about Post Soeharto period which written by foreign (non-Indonesian) authors.

Probably because of I am not a politician, I'd never heard about all authors. But myhunch tell that mostly come from Murdoch University - Western Australia,which have several specialist researches about Indonesia instead of havesome well-known Indonesian experts there. So the authors could asksomething, consult or gather feedbacks, opinions, and advices from themdirectly.

So this book is good enough to learn how Indonesiacould belook from overseas ... Read more

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This book presents a major overview of the key environmental issues affecting Indonesia today. Contributors examine the nation's development since the mid-1960's and assess Indonesia's natural resources and the environmental impact of their exploitation. The book discusses the dimensions of Indonesia's present environmental problems, the management of land resources, the ecology of rice production, environmental aspects of cash-crop development, problems related to upland use in Java, and the utilization of fishery resources in Kalimantan. The writers look at government policies and their environmental implications in a number of fields and identify emerging resource concerns. The question of sustainability is raised in the context of plans for national development in coming years. Most of the contributors to the book reach the same conclusion: that while great progress has been made in Indonesia since the mid 1960's, efforts to maintain momentum will have to consider ecological and environmental matters if development is to be genuinely sustainable, especially since it will be several more years before the effects of widespread family planning is felt in the labor force. ... Read more

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Throughout September 1999 Australian television and newspaper s were dominated by the coverage of the violence in East Timor following the decisive vote for independence. Vivid and intense, this reporting helped create pressure for international intervention, culminating in the arrival of United Nations forces. This compelling book examines the changing character of media coverage of East Timor and the shifts in Australian diplomacy and public opinion. Taking events up to the release of new Foreign Affairs documents in late 2000, it is the first detailed account of how diplomatic imperatives, domestic political controversies, and news coverage unfolded during Australia's greatest foreign policy disaster of the last quarter century. ... Read more

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For decades almost the only social scientists who visited Indonesia's provinces were anthropologists. Anybody interested in politics or economics spent most of their time in Jakarta. Following the collapse of the New Order, things began to happen in the provinces that no one was prepared for. Democratization was one, decentralization another. Ethnic and religious identities emerged that had lain buried under the blanket of the New Order's modernizing ideology. Unfamiliar, sometimes violent forms of political competition came to light.

This volume is the result of a two-year research project that brings together an international group of 24 scholars - mainly from Indonesia and the Netherlands but also from the United States, Australia, Germany, Canada, and Portugal. ... Read more

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Comprehensive
This is one of the most comprehensive book discussing Indonesian local politics after the decentralization policy in 2001. This book covers Indonesian Pemekaran, direct local elections, shadow state and other important issues in Indonesian local politics. Recommended for those who want to study recent development of "big bang" decentralization in Indonesia. ... Read more

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This book examines the components of Indonesia's rice policy to help policymakers, analysts, and observers sort out the pros and cons of alternative courses of action. Containing the results of the Food Research Institute's third multiyear research project on Indonesian food policy, the book combines new field-based empirical evidence on rice farming profitability and rural employment and wages with long experience in analyzing Indonesian food policy issues and the international market for rice. ... Read more