Nationalism and ethnic conflict in Indonesia:

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 Indonesia. In his innovative and persuasive account, Jacques Bertrand argues that conflicts in Maluku, Kalimantan, Aceh, Papua, an...

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Main Author: Bertrand, Jacques 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2004
Series:Cambridge Asia-Pacific studies
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511559341
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511559341
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511559341
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511559341
Summary: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 Indonesia. In his innovative and persuasive account, Jacques Bertrand argues that conflicts in Maluku, Kalimantan, Aceh, Papua, and East Timur were a result of the New Order's narrow and constraining reinterpretation of Indonesia's 'national model'. The author shows how, at the end of the 1990s, this national model came under intense pressure at the prospect of institutional transformation, a reconfiguration of ethnic relations, and an increase in the role of Islam in Indonesia's political institutions. It was within the context of these challenges, that the very definition of the Indonesian nation and what it meant to be Indonesian came under scrutiny. The book sheds light on the roots of religious and ethnic conflict at a turning point in Indonesia's history
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 278 pages)
ISBN:9780511559341
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511559341