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Item Editors' Note, Indonesia, Volume 89 (April 2010)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)Item Table of Contents, Indonesia, Volume 88 (April 2010)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)Item Review of Reconciling Indonesia: Grassroots Agency for PeaceTwarog, Kimberly (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)Item Front Cover and Title Page, Indonesia, Volume 89 (April 2010)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)Item The Otter Amulet (Jimat Séro)Kurniawan, Eka (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)A short story by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Benedict R. O’G. Anderson, taken from a book of contemporary Indonesian horror stories: Kumpulan Budak Setan (A Collection of Slaves of Evil Spirits), published by Gramedia in January 2010.Item Guerrillas, Guns, and Knives? Debating Insurgency in South Blitar, East Java, 1967–68Hearman, Vannessa (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)The essay provides an account of the South Blitar episode in Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) history, during which alleged members of the PKI hid from the military in South Blitar, where they were later pursued, and sometimes captured or killed, in a counterinsurgency operation by the Army and paramilitary forces. The paper relies on a combination of interviews, contemporary military documents, court records, and other sources to study this episode. It demonstrates how the Suharto-era narrative of these events continues to politicize the historical accounts of both the insurgency and the military response, and how this politicized narrative has shaped the impressions and memories of former political prisoners and heightened social divisions within this group.Item Contributors, Indonesia, Volume 89 (April 2010)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)Item Review of Expressing Islam: Religious Life and Politics in IndonesiaWood, Michael (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)Item Nahdlatul Ulama and the Killings of 1965–66: Religion, Politics, and RemembranceFealy, Greg; McGregor, Katharine (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)The essay examines the narratives Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) promulgated to explain its role in the mass killings of Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) members in 1965–66. Drawing on interviews and documents, the authors describe the history of antagonism between the NU and PKI and the role NU members played in the killings. It also shows how the organization perceived and articulated Indonesian communists as a threat to the Muslim community and to Islam itself. In the second half of the article, the authors reflect on how the NU and individuals within the NU have dealt with the legacy of 1965 over the last ten years.Item Review of A History of Christianity in IndonesiaHaire, James (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)Item Review of Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue DureeCollins, Elizabeth Fuller (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)Item Review of Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes: Indonesia and Malaysia in Comparative PerspectivePurdey, Jemma (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)Item Review of Bridges to New Business: The Economic Decolonization of IndonesiaChandra, Siddharth (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)Item Review of Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, IndonesiaHearman, Vannessa (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)Item Review of Indonesia: Towards DemocracyFederspiel, Howard (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)Item Imagining an Islamic State in Indonesia: From Darul Islam to Jemaah IslamiyahTemby, Quinton (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)This article contends that Darul Islam is not so much a movement as a backward-looking community whose members regard themselves as citizens of the Islamic State of Indonesia, a nation continuous with the state proclaimed by Kartosoewirjo, the leader of an Islamic rebellion, in 1949. The concept of the Islamic State survived underground during Suharto’s New Order regime, during which Darul Islam underwent a revival under the auspices of Suharto’s intelligence czar, Ali Moertopo. This revival indirectly led to the emergence of the Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah.Item The State and the Reactor: Nuclear Politics in Post-Suharto IndonesiaAmir, Sulfikar (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)In the wake of its energy crisis, Indonesia has decided to develop nuclear power to fulfill soaring demands for electricity. The rationale for going nuclear, this study argues, resides not in potential technical or economic advantages, per se, but, more importantly, in the desire of the state to assert its power over society. Nuclear politics is highly relevant to understanding the nature of the post-Suharto state in relation to ongoing contemporary democratic transitions. By delving into the politics of nuclear power in post-Suharto Indonesia, and the conflicts between the technological elites who support the construction of nuclear power plants and the organizations that actively oppose such construction, this study examines how technology shapes state–society relations in post-authoritarian Indonesia.Item Pugilists from the Mountains: History, Memory, and the Making of the Chinese-Educated Generation in Post-1998 IndonesiaSai, Siew-Min (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2010-04)This article traces the making of the post-New Order Chinese-educated generation. It details the public narratives centered on revising the history of the Chinese language (Mandarin) as a means of securing the localization of language and identity in Indonesia. Among Chinese-educated alumni, these public narratives buttress collective identity even as they generate a high degree of uniformity across individual biographies.