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Item A Nederlander Woman's Recollections of Colonial and Wartime Sumatra: From Sawahlunto to Bangkinang Internment CampRodgers, Susan (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-04)Eurasian communities in the Dutch East Indies took variant forms throughout the colony, many of which remain largely unexplored. This article draws upon a May, 2004, life history interview with Gerdy Ungerer (now a Californian, but born in 1928 to Eurasian parents in a West Sumatran coal mining town). She describes her secure, even privileged early childhood in Sawahlunto and then remembers its aftermath: World War II years in a harsh Japanese internment camp with other Sawahlunto Nederlanders. Her memoir raises the question: How do persons of mixed-race heritage in the Indies construct their identities today via childhood autobiography?Item Table of Contents, Indonesia, volume 79, (April 2005)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-04)Item The Ethnic Origins of Religious Conflict in North Maluku Province, Indonesia, 1999-2000Wilson, Chris (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-04)From 1999 to 2000, a violent conflict took place between Christian and Muslim communities in North Maluku Province, in eastern Indonesia. The violence has largely been seen as religious in character and an extension of the conflict in Ambon and Maluku Province. However, although religion did become an important factor in the later stages of the North Maluku conflict, the initial violence was not religious in character, nor closely connected to the Ambon conflict. The central issues in the early stages of the conflict were land ownership and the control of natural resources, issues that were brought to the fore by the creation of a new subdistrict. This article analyzes the initial conflict and demonstrates the way in which the division of subdistricts and districts can lead to violence in Indonesia.Item A Fallen Bat, a Rainbow, and the Missing Head: Media and Marginalization in Upland BorneoCrain, Jay; Pearson-Rounds, Vicki (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-04)The essay focuses on events surrounding a small plane crash in the interior of Indonesian Borneo that occurred during the authors’ fieldwork in 2002. The authors provide a close reading of media accounts of this event and conclude by analyzing the various positionalities of the Lundayeh as representational subjects in the context of the discursive tensions between global, national, and regional media.Item Contributors, Indonesia, volume 79, (April 2005)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-04)Item Editorial Note, Indonesia, volume 79, (April 2005)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-04)Item Review of Calling Back the Spirit: Music, Dance, and Cultural Politics in Lowland South SulawesiSpiller, Henry (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-04)Item Review Essay: The Establishment of Revolutionary ViolenceSiegel, James T. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-04)Item Review of Legal Evolution and Political Authority in Indonesia: Selected EssaysLoos, Tamara (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-04)Item Review of Perfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the Recited Qur'an in IndonesiaGibson, Thomas (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-04)