Indonesia, Vol. 082, October 2006
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Item Table of Contents, Indonesia, volume 82, (October 2006)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-10)Item Yap Thiam Hien and AcehLev, Daniel S. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-10)This is the first chapter of a biography of Yap Thiam Hien written by Daniel S. Lev. Yap Thiam Hien (1913-1989) was a renowned Indonesian lawyer and human rights activist. The chapter describes the background of his Chinese-Indonesian family, including his financially successful great-great-grandfather, who emigrated from south China in the 1840s; his father, who was unable to maintain the family business in Aceh but did insure that his children were well educated; and his father’s resourceful Japanese mistress, who raised the children after their mother died.Item Review of Historical Dictionary of Indonesia, (second edition)Tagliacozzo, Eric (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-10)Item Editorial Note, Indonesia, volume 82, (October 2006)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-10)Item First Love: The Opening of Soetjipto's Djalan Sampoerna(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-10)This is the memoir of a young Javanese, Soetjipto, his family life, and his first romance with a young man, a fellow student. Benedict Anderson introduces and translates the opening of Djalan Sampoerna, the narrator’s colonial-era autobiographical account of his early teen years, composed in the 1930s and notable for its clear description of young homosexual love.Item Local Civil-Military Relations during the First Phase of Democratic Transition, 1999-2004: A Comparison of West, Central, and East JavaHonna, Jun (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-10)This essay studies political developments that have taken place in three Javanese provinces since the 1999 general elections, which instituted a number of structural reforms intended to decentralize power and promote democracy. Honna demonstrates that, in these provinces, alliances between elite concession holders and various preman groups have overwhelmed civil society movements, which try to organize political power from below. The essay analyzes the political techniques used by these alliances, and shows that the Indonesian military has taken quiet advantage of such developments. The ways in which local military elites have manipulated civilian politics are also discussed in detail.Item Contributors, Indonesia, volume 82, (October 2006)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-10)Item Review of Women of the Kakawin World: Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and BaliRubenstein, Raechelle (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-10)Item Review of Guardians of the Land: Louis Fontijne's Study of a Colonial District in Easter IndonesiaRutherford, Danilyn (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-10)Item Review of Reorganizing Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of MarketsDanzer, Erick M. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-10)