Thailand: Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP, 2010. ix + 77 pages, bibliography, notes, paperback. This monograph examines the dynamics involved in implementing Islamic law in Southeast Asia, and how this issue has become a source of conflict in Kelantan, Malaysia and Aceh, Indonesia. Using textual and fieldwork methodology, the..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2018. Maps, colour plates, 586pp, index. Hardback in dustjacket. "The book focuses on the historical trajectories of Savu, an island in the Nusa Tenggara Timur province, eastern Indonesia. It blends historical and anthropological methods, using oral tradition, ethnographic observations, and archival collections. While Savu is a relatively..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2018. 288pp, paperback. "The anti-communist violence that swept across Indonesia in 1965-66 produced a particularly high death toll in East Java. It also transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of survivors, who faced decades of persecution, imprisonment and violence. In this book, Vannessa Hearman examines the..... More
Australia: Monash University Publishing, 2014. Map, black and white illustrations in text, xxvi + 176pp, references, index, paperback. This book brings unique insight and prize-winning analysis to an extraordinary story - that of a witch-hunt and 'ninja' craze that swept a region of Java, Indonesia, in 1998. Nicholas Herriman shows..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2007. Maps, black and white illustrations, xviii +297 pages, index, bibliography, glossary. "By the early nineteenth century, Islam had come to be the religious element in Javanese identity. But it was a particular kind of Islam, here called the 'mystic synthesis'. This Javanese mysticism had three notable..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2013. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 215 pages, index, bibliography, appendices, paperback. The years 1945-48 marked the peak of the Indonesian revolution, but they were also formative years for state-labour relationship in modern Indonesia. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, Jafar Suryomenggolo reconstructs..... More
Indonesia. PCD Press. 2010. xv + 431 pages, postscript, paperback. While the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami added to the problems of civil war in Sri Lanka, a miraculous transition from conflict and disaster to peace and new development evolved in Aceh, the rebellious Indonesian province on the northern..... More