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Item Front Cover and Title Page, Indonesia, Volume 92 (October 2011)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Protecting the Dragon: Dutch Attempts at Limiting Access to Komodo Lizards in the 1920s and 1930sBarnard, Timothy P. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)In 1912, Dutch scientists announced the existence of large lizards on Komodo Island in the Dutch East Indies. By the 1920s, these large lizards became the focus of intense collecting efforts on behalf of zoos and natural history museums, which desired the publicity and status inherent in displaying such a “celebrity species.” This article focuses on Dutch attempts to limit access to a little understood animal, which was located on the margins of their authority. By the 1930s, this led to new understandings about the role of wildlife reserves in the colony and thus became vital in the development of early environmental conservation in Indonesia.Item Table of Contents, Indonesia, Volume 92 (October 2011)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item “Either One is a Fascist or One is Not”: The Indies’ National–Socialist Movement, The Imperial Dream, and Mussert’s Colonial Milch CowPollmann, Tessel (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)A reconsideration of Anton Mussert, party leader of the Dutch Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB, National-Socialist Movement), who wrote and spoke regarding the significance of the Indies to the Netherlands before and during World War II. An Indies branch of the NSB was established in 1930, and its attempts to shape a program and message illustrate the dilemmas encountered by a fascist party in a colonial outpost. The colonial authorities in the Indies sought to control the potentially inflammatory rhetoric of the fascists, and Mussert dissuaded NSB members in the Indies from criticizing and challenging those same authorities. Mussert wanted to protect and sustain the Indies branch of the NSB in large part because funds collected from it helped support his efforts in Holland. As the war approached, the party splintered, divided by disagreements over the role and status of Indo (mixed-blood) members of the Indies NSB, who constituted 75 percent of the membership. Anti-semitism and intolerance for “race-mixing” increased. “In the end, the Indies NSB was doomed to fall on its own sword.”Item Contributors, Indonesia, Volume 92 (October 2011)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item “The Single Most Astonishing Fact of Human Geography”: Indonesia’s Far West ColonyKumar, Ann (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)This paper addresses the question of why the prehistoric Indonesian colonization of Madagascar has been described as the most astonishing fact of human geography. Evidence from linguistics, DNA, boat-building, and the history of trade is adduced to explain how and why such a colonization took place. It is argued that this colonization was made possible by the remarkable seafaring tradition that made Austronesian the world’s most far-flung language family in premodern times. Also of great importance was the strategic position of the states that organized this colonization with respect to an early world-system of the type described by Wallerstein.Item Editors' Note, Indonesia, Volume 92 (October 2011)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Review of Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in IndonesiaSunardi, Christina (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Review of Understanding Islam in Indonesia: Politics and DiversitySmith-Hefner, Nancy J. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Review of Resistance on the National Stage: Theater and Politics in Late New Order IndonesiaAberle, Tamara (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Review of The Floracrats: State Sponsored Science and the Failure of Enlightenment in IndonesiaNordholt, Henk Schulte (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Review of Decentralization and Adat Revivalism in Indonesia: The Politics of Becoming IndigenousArif, Sirojuddin (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Review of Chinese Indonesians and Regime ChangeHeidhues, Mary Somers (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Review of The Longhouse of the Tarsier: Changing Landscapes, Gender and Well Being in BorneoDuncan, Christopher (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item In Memoriam: Jamie Mackie (1924–2011)Jenkins, David (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)Item Remembering and Forgetting Indonesia’s Madiun Affair: Personal Narratives, Political Transitions, and Historiography, 1948–2008Sugiyama, Akiko (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)The new intellectual climate in post–New Order Indonesia has shed light on the role of personal memory in uncovering forgotten aspects of Indonesia’s national past. One individual who has been placed under the spotlight is Sumarsono (b. 1921), one of the few surviving eyewitnesses of the Madiun Affair, an armed conflict between the Indonesian Communist Party and the Republican government in 1948. This article examines and evaluates Sumarsono’s narratives of Madiun between 1949 and 2008, and in doing so, offers a fresh analysis of the historiography of this critical turning point in the last years of the Indonesian Revolution (1945–49).Item Spaces of Exclusion, Walls of Intimacy: Rethinking “Chinese Exclusivity” in IndonesiaYen-ling, Tsai (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)This article explores the entangled and intimate relationship between Indonesian citizens of Chinese descent and their non-Chinese counterparts through the symbolism and materiality of walls. Rather than seeing walls as merely tools and symbols of disconnect, the essay shows walls as sites both of exclusion and encounter. Through ethnographic accounts, it demonstrates that walls generate interracial socialities as much as they block them. Studying such socialities enables us to better understand the spatial dynamic of race- and class-making in urban Indonesia, where “Chinese exclusivity” is produced through cross-racial encounters infused with asymmetrical intimacies.Item Women and Modernity: Reading the Femme Fatale in Early Twentieth-Century Indies NovelsChandra, Elizabeth (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)This article discusses one major trend among novels of early twentieth-century Indonesia, that is stories of the tragic femme fatale. A close examination of one such novel, Tan Boen Kim’s Riboet or the Venomous Flower, and others like it reveals a curious thematic pattern in which women are cautioned against embracing new practices and ways of life such as obtaining education and taking up a profession. This article argues that these novels reflect a certain social symptom as they convey profound critiques of women in the age of modernity.Item No Turkish Delight: The Impasse of Islamic Party Politics in IndonesiaHadiz, Vedi R. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-10)This article addresses the inability of Indonesia’s Islamic parties to launch a serious challenge for control over state power through insights obtained via comparisons with the Turkish case. By juxtaposing Indonesia’s PKS (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, Justice and Prosperity Party) and Turkey's AKP (Adalet ve Kalk?nma Partisi, Justice and Development Party), in particular, it offers a political economy-oriented understanding of the limited achievements of Islamic party politics in Indonesia. The analysis places Islamic party politics in Indonesia and Turkey in the context of social-structural changes associated with capitalist development. It argues that, unlike the AKP, the PKS remains predominantly identified with an urban middle-class constituency rather than a cross-class alliance waging struggles under the Islamic banner.