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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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Identity Formations and Colonial Contests--2. Konfrontasi, Rebellion, and Ethnic Cleansing-- 3. Regional State-Building and Recurrent Riots--4. Reform, Decentralization, and the Politicization of Ethnicity and Indigeneity--5. Refugees, a Governor, and an Urban Racket--6. Collective Violence in West Kalimantan in Comparative Perspective