Indonesia Update Series
Economic dimensions of Covid-19 in Indonesia: responding to the crisis
Author(s): Lewis, B (editor), Witoelar, F (editor)Date of publication: 2021
Publication type: Book
Beginning in December 2019, the coronavirus swept quickly through all regions of the world. COVID-19 has wreaked social, political and economic havoc everywhere and has shown few signs of entirely abating. The recent development and approval of new vaccines against the virus, however, now provides...
Democracy in Indonesia: from stagnation to regression?
Author(s): Power, T (editor), Warburton, E (editor)Date of publication: 2020
Publication type: Book
Indonesia has long been hailed as a rare case of democratic transition and persistence in an era of global democratic setbacks. But as the country enters its third decade of democracy, such laudatory assessments have become increasingly untenable. The stagnation that characterized Susilo Bambang...
Contentious belonging: the place of minorities in Indonesia
Author(s): Greg Fealy (editor), Ronit Ricci (editor)Date of publication: 2019
Publication type: Book
Contention has surrounded the status of minorities throughout Indonesian history. Two broad polarities are evident: one inclusive of minorities, regarding them as part of the nation’s rich complexity and a manifestation of its “Unity in Diversity” motto; the other exclusive, viewing with...
Indonesia in the new world: globalisation, nationalism and sovereignty
Author(s): Arianto A. Patunru (editor), Mari Pangestu, (editor), M Chatib Basri (editor)Date of publication: 2018
Publication type: Book
Anne Booth, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 2019. “This volume, which originates from the Indonesia Update conference held at the Australian National University in September 2017, covers a range of topics related to globalisation and its impact on modern Indonesia. The authors comprise a...
Digital Indonesia: connectivity and divergence
Author(s): Edwin Jurriëns (editor), Edwin Jurriëns (editor)Date of publication: 2017
Publication type: Book
Andrew Sheng, Asian Pacific Economic Literature, 2018. Few people realise that the digital divide is not just between those who have access to digital information and those who do not, but also between generations and more importantly, between attention spans. The digitally savvy generation has an...
Land and development in Indonesia: searching for the people’s sovereignty
Author(s): John McCarthy (editor), Kathryn Robinson (editor)Date of publication: 2016
Publication type: Book
Ward Berenschot, Bijdragen Tot De Taal -, Land-En Volkenkunde 174 (2018) 291 - 362. “Land and Development concerns one of Indonesia’s most urgent challenges: the difficulty of ensuring that Indonesians obtain more effective control over their land. This book is part of an important book series...
The Yudhoyono Presidency: Indonesia's decade of stability and stagnation
Author(s): Aspinall, E, Mietzner, M, Tomsa, DDate of publication: 2015
Publication type: Book
The presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2004-14) was a watershed in Indonesia’s modern democratic history. Yudhoyono was not only the first Indonesian president to be directly elected, but also the first to be democratically re-elected. Coming to office after years of turbulent transition, he...
Regional dynamics in a decentralized Indonesia
Author(s): Hill, H (editor)Date of publication: 2014
Publication type: Book
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic state. In 2001 it embarked on a “big bang” decentralization involving a major transfer of administrative, political and financial authority to its districts, now numbering more than 500. Together with the rapid transition from authoritarian to...
Education in Indonesia
Author(s): Suryadarma, D (editor), Jones, G W (editor)Date of publication: 2013
Publication type: Book
In Indonesia, as elsewhere in Asia, education will inevitably play a key role in the national development experience as the twenty-first century unfolds. Not much international attention is paid to how the education sector is faring in Indonesia, but that is not because nothing is happening. The...
Indonesia rising: the repositioning of Asia’s third giant
Author(s): Reid, A (editor)Date of publication: 2012
Publication type: Book
There are reasons for thinking that this is at last Indonesia’s moment on the world stage. Having successfully negotiated its difficult transition to democracy after 1998, Indonesia has held three popular elections with a low level of violence by the standards of southern Asia. Recently its...
