Indonesia Update Series
About the Indonesia Update Series:
The Indonesia Update series, organized annually since 1988 by the ANU Indonesia Project, is designed to be an authoritative review of developments in Indonesia. Each year’s Update focuses on a particular theme and brings together an expert group of commentators and scholars from Indonesia, Australia, and elsewhere. Since 1994, the annual proceedings, revised and edited by specialists, have been published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. Books can be purchased from the ISEAS bookshop: https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/
Governing urban Indonesia
Author(s): Edward Aspinall (editor), Amalinda Savirani (editor)Date of publication: 2024
Publication type: Book
Indonesia has become a majority urban society. Despite the classic images of rice fields, volcanoes and rural life we often associate with the country, now almost 60 per cent of Indonesia’s people live in cities, towns, suburbs, gated communities and other urban areas. Urbanisation has brought with...
Gender equality and diversity in Indonesia: Identifying progress and challenges
Author(s): Angie Bexley (editor), Xue Sarah Dong (editor), Diahhadi Setyonaluri (editor)Date of publication: 2023
Publication type: Book
This book is based on papers delivered at the 2022 Indonesia Update conference convened by Angie Bexley, Sarah Dong and Diahhadi Setyonaluri. It explores how gender relations have been shaped by historical forces such as Reformasi, decentralisation and economic transformation. Spanning topics such...
In Sickness and In Health: Diagnosing Indonesia
Author(s): Witoelar, F (editor), Utomo, A (editor)Date of publication: 2022
Publication type: Book
Despite significant improvements in many health outcomes over the past 60 years, many chronic problems in Indonesia’s health system including financial sustainability, governance and inequities in accessing health care have long been apparent, even before the COVID-19 pandemic. The epidemiological...
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...
