Description: "This book looks at Islamist, separatist and communal violence across Indonesian history since 1945. At the heart of this enquiry is the question of why Islamist, separatist, and communal conflict only erupted in some areas of Indonesia despite the fact that all of Indonesia experienced Sukarno's Old Order, Suharto's New Order, the fall of Suharto, and the uncertainties as well as opportunities created by Indonesia's democratization and decentralization."--
Review Quotes:
Readers will benefit from its rich ethnographic, historical, and primary data and sources on Indonesia's varied violence since independence, as well as from the author's thought-provoking analyses and arguments on the violence and its links to the contestation over the country's national imaginary and belonging.
-- "Southeast Asian Studies"