Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Southeast Asia.
Timor Leste: Politics, History, and Culture
1st Edition
By Andrea Katalin Molnar
September 14, 2011
This book provides a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asia’s newest nation, Timor Leste (East Timor). This book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, and its political history from the pre-Portuguese period up to 2009. The book pays particular attention to the ...
Muslims in Singapore: Piety, politics and policies
1st Edition
By Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Alexius A. Pereira, Bryan S. Turner
May 06, 2011
This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and the cultural dominance of its Chinese elite, who are predominantly Buddhist and Christian. ...
Violent Conflicts in Indonesia: Analysis, Representation, Resolution
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles A. Coppel
March 14, 2011
Indonesia is currently affected by many serious conflicts which have arisen as a result of a variety of ethnic, religious and regional tensions. Presenting important new thinking on violent conflict in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, this book examines a selection of conflicts in ...
Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia: Jakarta's security and autonomy polices in Aceh
1st Edition
By Michelle Ann Miller
August 10, 2010
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 ...
Financial Fragility and Instability in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Yasuyuki Matsumoto
July 21, 2010
This highly relevant study provides an incisive analysis of a critical phase in recent East Asian financial history, exploring the underlying causes of the financial crisis that struck Indonesia during the second half of 1997. Matsumoto’s extensive commercial experience in Indonesian finance ...
Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia: Golkar in the post-Suharto era
1st Edition
By Dirk Tomsa
December 24, 2009
Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia: Golkar in the Post-Suharto Era provides the first in-depth analysis of contemporary Indonesian party politics and the first systematic explanation why Golkar is still the strongest party in Indonesia. Applying a multi-dimensional conceptual framework...
Democratization in Post-Suharto Indonesia
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Bunte, Andreas Ufen
December 11, 2009
In May 1998 the fall of Suharto marked the beginning of a difficult and multi-layered transition process. It was accompanied by intensified conflict in the political arena, a dramatic increase of ethnic and religious violence and the danger of national disintegration. Ten years after the collapse ...
Chinese Big Business in Indonesia: The State of Capital
1st Edition
By Christian Chua
October 19, 2009
The disintegration of Indonesia's New Order regime in 1998 and the fall of Soeharto put an end to the crude forms of centralised authoritarianism and economic protectionism that allowed large Chinese conglomerates to dom- inate Indonesia's private sector. Contrary to all expectations, most of ...
Ethnic Politics in Burma: States of Conflict
1st Edition
By Ashley South
October 19, 2009
This book examines the ideas which have structured half a century of civil war in Burma, and the roles which political elites and foreign networks - from colonial missionaries to aid worker activists - have played in mediating understandings of ethnic conflict in the country. The book includes a ...
Communal Violence and Democratization in Indonesia: Small Town Wars
1st Edition
By Gerry van Klinken
September 22, 2009
Through close scrutiny of empirical materials and interviews, this book uniquely analyzes all the episodes of long-running, widespread communal violence that erupted during Indonesia’s post-New Order transition. Indonesia democratised after the long and authoritarian New Order regime ended in May ...
Governance and Civil Society in Myanmar: Education, Health and Environment
1st Edition
By Helen James
May 14, 2009
Most international attention on Myanmar has focused on the political situation, where the military, in power since 1962, continues to refuse to acknowledge the results of democratic elections, and on related human rights issues. This book, by focusing on education, health and environment, and on ...
Regionalism in Post-Suharto Indonesia
1st Edition
Edited
By Maribeth Erb, Carol Faucher, Priyambudi Sulistiyanto
May 14, 2009
Since the fall of the Suharto regime, forces pressing for regional autonomy have strengthened in Indonesia, with some people arguing that the country is in danger of disintegrating. This book examines a range of issues connected with decentralization and regional autonomy in Indonesia, especially ...