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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Indonesia and Malaysia, focusing especially on how the relationship has developed in the last fifty years.
The contributors to this volume examine the actual workings and on-the-ground effects of contemporary political economic shifts in the Global South, and implications for reconfiguring social networks, conceptions and practices of governance, and burgeoning social movements.
Armed separatist movements in Papua, East Timor and Aceh have been a serious problem for Indonesia's central government. This book examines the policies of successive Indonesian governments to contain secessionist forces, focusing in particular on Jakarta's response towards the armed separatist movement in Aceh.
Older persons are often portrayed as social and financial burdens because pensions, health and social care have to withstand increasing old age dependency ratios. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the experience of ageing in Singapore, examining key issues such as health, work, housing, family ties and care giving.
Presents a feminist analysis of the role of international law in the formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, this book offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration.
This book both considers labour migration in its totality, showing how the divide between illegal and legal migration is often blurred, and also examines how governmental and international measures to counter illegal migration are translated into action on the ground, and what impact on all kinds of migration they have in practice.
Covering various fields in political science, this text presents an historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism.
Compares the post-war political economies of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in the context of their individual and collective impact on contemporary efforts at regional integration. This book highlights the different paths to reform taken by them and the effect this has had on regional plans for economic development through the ASEAN.
The origins and the key defining moments of the Cold War in Southeast Asia have been widely debated. This book focuses on an area that has received less attention, the impact and legacy of the Cold War on the various countries in the region, as well as on the region itself.
This book shows how policies to combat human trafficking and regulate sex work have shaped both the structure of the modern Cambodian sex industry and sex workers' experiences.
A detailed region-level examination of the 2018 and 2019 Indonesian elections and their implications for Indonesia's democracy.
Drawing together studies undertaken in the decade following Indonesia's rapid political reforms, this book explores the forces reconfiguring resource governance, providing a view from the grassroots up of the dynamics shaping outcomes in different contexts.
Presents important thinking on violent conflict in Indonesia. This book looks at the nature of violence, and at the reasons for violence breaking out, considering a range of particular conflicts in detail. Chapters include analysis of conflicts in Aceh, East Timor, Maluku, Java, West Kalimantan, West Papua and elsewhere.
This book examines the relationship between land tenure, conservation and rural development in the context of the Southeast Asian archipelago. In particular, it is concerned with people living in and around national parks and other protected areas.
Presents information of the security concept of Myanmar.
Focuses on social and cultural trends in Hadrami Arab societies in Eastern and Central Indonesia, and the history of the Hadrami Arab people, which demonstrates an early form of globalization. This book is of interest to Southeast Asian and Middle East specialists and scholars in Anthropology and Migration Studies.
From 1999 until 2000, the conflict in North Maluku, Indonesia, saw the most intense communal violence of Indonesia's period of democratization. This book examines this brutal conflict, illustrating in detail how and why previously peaceful religious communities can descend into violent conflict.
Offers an analysis of the Indonesian party politics and an explanation to why Golkar is the strongest party in Indonesia. This book examines Golkar's organizational infrastructure, its decisional autonomy and programmatic platform as well as the party's relations to the mass media.
The Indonesian term "adat" means 'custom' or 'tradition', and carries connotations of sedate order and harmony. This book investigates the revival of "adat" in Indonesian politics, identifying its origins, the historical factors that have conditioned it and the reasons behind its blossoming.
Tracks the phases of Singapore's economic and political development. This book argues that Singapore's success was dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links will be the key to the country's future.
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