{"title":"Rising Islamic Conservatism in Indonesia: Islamic Groups and Identity Politics ed. by Leonard C. Sebastian, Syafiq Hasyim, and Alexander R. Arifianto (review)","authors":"R. Hefner","doi":"10.1353/ind.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41794,"journal":{"name":"Internetworking Indonesia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84052511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display by Josh Stenberg (review)","authors":"M. Cohen","doi":"10.1353/ind.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41794,"journal":{"name":"Internetworking Indonesia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80417942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Overview of a 1945 US Government Political Handbook on the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia)","authors":"Howard M. Federspiel","doi":"10.1353/ind.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41794,"journal":{"name":"Internetworking Indonesia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86509453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article examines the persistence of blasphemy laws and their increasing use during Indonesia’s democratic era. Phenomena related to blasphemy cases have been explained by other scholars in terms of Islamist fundamentalism or institutional weakness. However, in this article I propose that Indonesia’s recent experience should also be seen as resulting from particular political circumstances despite the rising trends of religious belief or conservatism and institutional problems in the country. More specifically, this article considers how blasphemy laws are used as a political tool to mobilize support from conservative religious groups in contests over power and wealth, which I argue helps to explain the continued operation of the problematic laws in Indonesia’s democratic context. The use of the laws, therefore, tends to align with political events and electoral contests as a crucial element in analyzing blasphemy issues in Indonesia.
{"title":"Religion at the Ballot Box: The Politics of Indonesia’s Blasphemy Laws","authors":"Rafiqa Qurrata A’yun","doi":"10.1353/ind.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the persistence of blasphemy laws and their increasing use during Indonesia’s democratic era. Phenomena related to blasphemy cases have been explained by other scholars in terms of Islamist fundamentalism or institutional weakness. However, in this article I propose that Indonesia’s recent experience should also be seen as resulting from particular political circumstances despite the rising trends of religious belief or conservatism and institutional problems in the country. More specifically, this article considers how blasphemy laws are used as a political tool to mobilize support from conservative religious groups in contests over power and wealth, which I argue helps to explain the continued operation of the problematic laws in Indonesia’s democratic context. The use of the laws, therefore, tends to align with political events and electoral contests as a crucial element in analyzing blasphemy issues in Indonesia.","PeriodicalId":41794,"journal":{"name":"Internetworking Indonesia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81813158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, then vice-president of Indonesia, succeeded to the presidency on May 21, 1998, when the autocratic President Suharto resigned. The occasion was the most severe economic and political crisis in Indonesian history since 1965, when Suharto had wrested power from his predecessor, Indonesian founding father Sukarno, who had also ruled autocratically from 1959–1965.During his brief tenure, from May 1998 to October 1999, Habibie made three decisions that transformed Indonesian politics. He conducted the first national and local democratic elections since 1955, when Indonesia was briefly a parliamentary democracy. He devolved administrative and fiscal authority to district and municipality governments for the first time since the 1950s.Finally, he enabled the people of East Timor to choose independence from Indonesia. The first two of these actions gave significantly more political power to Indonesian citizens than they had previously enjoyed. The third restored the nation-state to the original conception and commitment made by its founders.
{"title":"B. J. Habibie and the Transformation of Indonesian Politics","authors":"R. Liddle","doi":"10.1353/ind.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, then vice-president of Indonesia, succeeded to the presidency on May 21, 1998, when the autocratic President Suharto resigned. The occasion was the most severe economic and political crisis in Indonesian history since 1965, when Suharto had wrested power from his predecessor, Indonesian founding father Sukarno, who had also ruled autocratically from 1959–1965.During his brief tenure, from May 1998 to October 1999, Habibie made three decisions that transformed Indonesian politics. He conducted the first national and local democratic elections since 1955, when Indonesia was briefly a parliamentary democracy. He devolved administrative and fiscal authority to district and municipality governments for the first time since the 1950s.Finally, he enabled the people of East Timor to choose independence from Indonesia. The first two of these actions gave significantly more political power to Indonesian citizens than they had previously enjoyed. The third restored the nation-state to the original conception and commitment made by its founders.","PeriodicalId":41794,"journal":{"name":"Internetworking Indonesia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82139574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peninsular Siam and Its Neighborhoods: Essays in Memory of Dr. Preecha Noonsuk ed. by Wannasarn Noonsuk (review)","authors":"P. Lavy","doi":"10.1353/ind.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41794,"journal":{"name":"Internetworking Indonesia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90307375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon by Ronit Ricci (review)","authors":"P. Carey","doi":"10.1353/IND.2020.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/IND.2020.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41794,"journal":{"name":"Internetworking Indonesia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84475259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia by Vannessa Hearman (review)","authors":"Taomo Zhou","doi":"10.1353/IND.2020.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/IND.2020.0031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41794,"journal":{"name":"Internetworking Indonesia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76998004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Nationalism: Youth Struggle for the Independence of East Timor and Democracy for Indonesia","authors":"Takahiro Kamisuna","doi":"10.1353/IND.2020.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/IND.2020.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41794,"journal":{"name":"Internetworking Indonesia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90215426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}