From rebellion to riots collective violence on Indonesian Borneo

From Rebellion to Riots examines contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. It documents how a communist rebellion in the 1960s and low-level conflicts in the decades that followed led to major ethnic clashes in the late 1990s, when an indigenous...

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Main Author: Davidson, Jamie Seth 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore NUS Press c2009
Series:New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies
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Summary:From Rebellion to Riots examines contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. It documents how a communist rebellion in the 1960s and low-level conflicts in the decades that followed led to major ethnic clashes in the late 1990s, when an indigenous empowerment movement took shape and local elites sought to capture the benefits of decentralization and democratization
Physical Description:xviii, 287 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9789971694272