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Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia Issue 11 (December 2009)

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Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia Issue 11 (December 2009)

On the Relationship between Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia

From 1405 to 1433, during his seven expeditions overseas, did Cheng Ho participate in spreading Islam? While there is no relevant record in historical archives in China, many records and tales in Southeast Asian countries […]

Museum as the Representation of Ethnicity: The Construction of Chinese Indonesian Ethnic Identity in post-Suharto Indonesia

Introduction The purpose of this paper is to define the processes and techniques used in trial of the visualization of ethnic identity by examining the case of Chinese Indonesian Cultural Park (Taman Budaya Tionghoa Indonesia). […]

Tracing The Roots of Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals: A Bibliographical Survey

This essay provides a sketch of Indonesian Muslim intellectuals of the 1990s and offers a comprehensive explanation of their reformist approach to Islam from the 1970s to the 1980s. It argues that there is a […]

The Indonesian Migrants of Davao and Cotabato

The more recent Indonesian migrants to the Philippines are collectively called Maroris by the natives of Davao. They are called Maroris because in coming to southern Mindanao, a lot of them went by way of […]

Book Review— Beginning to Remember: The Past in Indonesian Present

Mary Zurbuchen (ed.) Beginning to Remember: The Past in Indonesian PresentSingapore and Seattle: Singapore University Press, with University of Washington Press, 2005 The past decade or so has seen proliferation of studies on different facets […]

Vigilantes and Gangsters in the Borderland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Persons who find it politic to hurriedly shift from one side of the border to the other can hardly be considered as valuable citizens of either State. Borderlands have long been the sites of violence, […]

A Friendship, Some Mediated Imaginations, and Religiosity in Java/Elsewhere

Jumpa Lagi I have been coming to Indonesia for over twenty years, and for twelve of those years I’ve been involved in research as a cultural anthropologist on the island of Java, in the […]

Vedi Hadiz on Indonesia

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As you know, we are having parliamentary elections in Indonesia on the 5th of April, and this should actually be a very good time to talk about leadership in Indonesia. The […]

The 2004 Indonesian Legislative Election: New Means to the Same Ends?

The Indonesian elections of 2004 differed from previous elections – most recently held in 1999 – in scope, procedures, and mechanisms. The differences are summarized briefly in the table below, following which I will focus […]

Wahyu Prasetyawan on Indonesia’s Presidential Election

How did Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono defeat incumbent Megawati in the 2004 presidential election, given the President’s relatively successful maintenance of the economy over the last three years? Many analysts have highlighted the novel role played […]

Book Review: Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Comparing Indonesia and Malaysia

Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Comparing Indonesia and MalaysiaAriel Heryanto and Sumit K. Mandal, editorsLondon and New York / RoutledgeCurzon / 2003 To reach the true value of this book, the reader might skim the […]

Book Review: Indonesia: The 2004 Elections and Beyond

Indonesia: The 2004 Elections and BeyondAdam Schwarz Singapore / Institute of Southeast Asian Studies / 2004 This monograph is a transcript of a lecture delivered by former Far Eastern Economic Review correspondent Adam Schwarz at the Institute of […]

For the Record: An Anti-War Protest in Jakarta Days Before the Bali Bomb Attacks

On the 8th of October, 2002, members of different non-governmental organizations and student groups met at the headquarters of the modernist Muslim organization Muhammadiyah in central Jakarta to set off on an anti-war demonstration outside […]

Public Perceptions of Indonesia’s Crisis

This is an abridged version of “The Indonesian Crisis from ‘Krismon’ to ‘Kristal’: Perceptions of Social and Cultural Impacts in Jakarta and Semarang,” published in The Indonesian Quarterly, October 2002. The survey from which this […]

Madness at Simpang Kraft: How Indonesian Journalists Witnessed the Murder of Acehnese Civilians

Chik Rini, a journalist based in Banda Aceh, originally reported this story in May 2002, drawing on five months’ research in Banda Aceh, Medan, Jakarta, and Lhokseumawe, including a one-month stay near Krueng Geukeuh. It […]

Indonesian Migrant Workers in Japan: Typology and Human Rights

Like other developing countries, Indonesia faces high unemployment, underemployment, and low wages. In Japan, despite great demand for unskilled labor created by the reluctance of highly qualified young workers to take blue collar jobs, Japanese […]

Book Review— Indonesian Politics and Society: A Reader

Indonesian Politics and Society: A ReaderDavid Bourchier and Vedi Hadiz, editorsLondon and New York / RoutledgeCurzon / 2003 For many years an essential work for students and indeed teachers of Indonesian politics, both those with […]

Review— Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation and Democratisation & Indonesia’s Population: Ethnicity and Religion in a Changing Political Landscape

Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation and DemocratisationEdward Aspinall and Greg Fealy, editorsSingapore / Institute of Southeast Asain Studies / 2003 Indonesia’s Population: Ethnicity and Religion in a Changing Political LandscapeLeo Suryadinata, Evi N. […]

Towards Reinventing Indonesian Nationalist Historiography

The 1965 publication of An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography (Soedjatmoko et al. 1965) was a remarkable accomplishment in view of the comparative paucity of scholarship on other Southeast Asian countries at the time. Since […]

The Chinese in the Collective Memory of the Indonesian Nation

Indonesians of Arab and Indian descent have experienced few problems in their relationship with Indonesians of indigenous ethnic backgrounds. Up until now, these relationships have run smoothly (despite recent allegations made by the United States […]

Rusli Amran and the Rewriting of Minangkabau History

Rather than review Rusli Amran’s five books on West Sumatran history, this essay will serve as a brief introduction to Minangkabauist historical debates among so-called amateur historians in Indonesia. (All titles are given in English […]

Illegal Logging – History and Lessons from Indonesia

Illegal logging is now a common environmental issue which is debated internationally. It is said that the problem in Indonesia, Cambodia, Russia, Brazil, and certain African countries has become quite severe, with Indonesia experiencing […]

Timber Trafficking—Illegal Logging in Indonesia, South East Asia and International Consumption

REVIEW— Timber Trafficking—Illegal Logging in Indonesia, South East Asia and International Consumption of Illegally Sourced TimberEIA & Telapak / www.eia-international.org – Forests for the World Campaign / 2001 Illegal logging is endemic to the tropical timber industry: […]

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