NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICT IN INDONESIA by Jacques Bertrand ( 9780511559341 )

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NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICT IN INDONESIA

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ISBN 10:

0511559348

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9780511559341

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

10 December, 2009

Series:

Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies

Description:

An exploration of religious and ethnic conflict in a complex and often misunderstood part of the world.

Synopsis:

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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Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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