Description:
The middle classes of Indonesia's provincial towns are not particularly rich yet nationally influential. This book examines them ethnographically. Rather than a market-friendly, liberal middle class, it finds a conservative petty bourgeoisie just out of poverty and skilled at politics.
Please note that Sylvia Tidey's article (pp. 89-110) wil.
Review Quotes: "Many of the chapters, then, are written by Indonesian scholars, and herein lies the value of this collection: it provides a view of contemporary society and democracy as it is seen by Indonesian people."
- Emma Baulch, in Pacific Affairs 89.1 (2016), p. 230-232.