A commitment to new and innovative work on South East Asia.
Editor: Dr Rachel Harrison,
Dept of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia, SOAS, University
Of London
Other Sites Of Interest:
Cornell University Publications: Southeast Asia Program
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Published three times per year by IP Publishing on behalf of SOAS, South
East Asia Research includes papers on all aspects of South East Asia within
the disciplines of archaeology, art history, economics, geography, history,
language and literature, law, music, political science, social anthropology
and religious studies. Papers are based on original research or field work.
SOAS is the leading centre in this field in Europe and one of the most
prestigious centres of South East Asian Studies in the world.
Please send papers to Dr Rachel Harrison, Dept of the Languages
and Cultures of South East Asia, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,
London WC1H 0XG, UK. E-mail:
rh6@soas.ac.uk.
South East Asia Research includes articles on all aspects of South
East Asia, from history, archaeology, language and culture to economics,
politics and law. Articles should be based on original research or fieldwork.
Unless otherwise indicated, it is understood that articles submitted for
publication are original contributions and have not been previously published
or submitted for publication elsewhere.
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be used. The following style should be applied to references:
- Books:Peter Zinoman (2001), The Colonial Bastille: A History
of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940, University of California
Press, Berkeley, CA.
- Journal articles: Martin van Bruinessen (2002), 'Genealogies of
Islamic radicalism in post-Suharto Indonesia', South East Asia Research,
Vol 10, No 2, pp 117-154.
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Editor: Dr Rachel Harrison, Dept of the Languages and Cultures of South
East Asia, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK.
E-mail: rh6@soas.ac.uk.
Editorial Advisory Board
- Professor Peter Boomgaard
KITLV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Professor Anne Booth
SOAS, University of London, UK
- Dr Peter Jackson
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Professor Benedict J. Kerkvliet
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Professor V.T. King
University of Hull, UK
- Professor E. Ulrich Kratz
SOAS, University of London, UK
- Professor Bambang Purwanto
Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Dr J.D. Rigg
University of Durham, UK
- Professor Henk Schulte Nordholt
KITLV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Professor John T. Sidel
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
- Professor Peter Zinoman
University of California at Berkeley, USA
July 2008 issue (VOL 16, NO 2)
Book review
286 King of the Waters: Homan van der Heide and the Origin of Modern
Irrigation in Siam, by Han ten Brummelhuis
(reviewed by Jonathan Rigg)
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Title:
Criminal collaborations? Antonius Wamang and the Indonesian military in
Timika
Author(s): S. Eben Kirksey and Andreas Harsono
Abstract: US intelligence reports linked the Indonesian military to the
August 2002 murder of two American schoolteachers and an Indonesian in Timika,
Papua province. Restrictions on the US Foreign Military Financing (FMF)
and International Military Education and Training (IMET) for Indonesia came
to be linked to the investigation of this murder. However, a Jakarta court
subsequently sentenced a Papuan villager, Antonius Wamang, to life in prison
for leading the attack. Six other villagers were given sentences ranging
from five to eight years. The same day that Wamang was sentenced, Pentagon
officials announced a ‘new era of military cooperation’ with Indonesia.
Yet many irregularities were not resolved during the trial. Questions remain
about whether Wamang’s group acted alone. Did Indonesian military agents
help Wamang stage the attack? Did Bush Administration officials help cover
up evidence of Indonesian military involvement so that they could pursue
objectives in the war on terror? The idiom of co-production offers insight
into ambivalent and contingent collaborations that develop during covert
operations and acts of terrorism.
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Title:
Inadequate budgets and salaries as instruments for institutionalizing public
sector corruption in Indonesia
Author(s): Ross H. McLeod
Abstract: Soeharto used the Indonesian bureaucracy to generate rents
that could be harvested by ‘insider’ firms, while also encouraging it to
extort money from ‘outsider’ firms and individuals. This necessitated incentives
that would ensure strong loyalty and minimize internal opposition. Government
entities were provided with insufficient budget funding to cover their costs,
and their officials were expected to generate cash from illegal activities,
making public sector employees financially dependent on corruption. Any
employee who opposed this system could expect to be restricted to earning
no more than the pitifully low formal salary entitlement. The system therefore
became strongly self-reinforcing.
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Title:
Soldiers, parties and bureaucrats: illicit fund-raising in contemporary
Indonesia
Author(s): Marcus Mietzner
Abstract: This article discusses illicit fund-raising efforts in Indonesia’s
armed forces, political parties and bureaucracy after the fall of Suharto
in 1998. It argues that while personal self-enrichment remains a key motivation
for military leaders, party politicians and bureaucrats to collect off-budget
funds, there are also other crucial factors. Most importantly, all three
sectors aim to control independent funds in order to maintain or strengthen
their autonomy from other state institutions, such as parliamentary budget
commissions, executive monitoring bodies or official auditing boards. By
engaging in extensive self-financing practices, however, the three political
actors undermine their own professionalism, functional effectiveness and
internal coherence, and obstruct Indonesia’s process of democratic consolidation.
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Title:
The rise of shari’a by-laws in Indonesian districts: an indication for changing
patterns of power accumulation and political corruption
Author(s): Michael Buehler
Abstract: A rising number of districts in Indonesia have adopted shari’a
by-laws in recent years. This article shows that this development has to
be situated in the context of institutional change. Shari’a by- laws allow
regents to open up new revenue streams. These revenues are then used to
consolidate political power.
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