Indonesia, Vol. 085, April 2008
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Item Table of Contents, Indonesia, Volume 85 (April 2008)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008-04)Item Editors, Indonesia, Volume 85 (April 2008)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008-04)Item Contributors, Indonesia, Volume 85 (April 2008)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008-04)Item Current Data on the Indonesian Military Elite, September 2005–March 2008The Editors (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008-04)This essay and list of Indonesian military officers identifies the reshuffling of key positions at TNI (Tentara Nasional Indonesia, Indonesian National Military) headquarters, as well as at the army’s central and regional commands between September 1, 2005, and March 1, 2008. The period covered in this update was entirely under the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who came into office in October 2004. The analysis focuses on the arrival of peace in Aceh (August 2005); the appointment of an air force general as the commander-in-chief of TNI; and signs of “generational change” that became discernible during this period, resulting from the promotion of officers who graduated from the military academy (Akademi Militer, or Akmil) in the 1980s.Item The Truths of Torture: Victims’ Memories and State Histories in IndonesiaRoosa, John (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008-04)This essay discusses the mass arrests and the torture of Indonesian political prisoners conducted by the Suharto regime from 1965 through 1969; the analysis is based on interviews with prisoners and state records of their “confessions.” Roosa discusses why the interrogators appeared to find torture useful for gathering information, despite evidence to the contrary. He argues that the “confessions” extracted from the prisoners helped the regime construct a picture of Indonesia as a nation swarming with subversive communist enemies, thereby justifying its fierce suppression of the insurgency it had imagined.Item Review of Knowing Southeast Asian SubjectsSchlossberg, Scott (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008-04)Item Front Cover and Title Page, Indonesia, Volume 85 (April 2008)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008-04)Item Learning from the East Java Mudflow: Disaster Politics in IndonesiaSchiller, Jim; Lucas, Anton; Sulistiyanto, Priyambudi (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008-04)A study of the grim results of the erupting mud volcano in East Java that was apparently triggered in May 2006 by the company, Lapindo Brantas, which was digging an exploratory well in search of natural gas near Sidoarjo. The toxic mud now covers over 2,000 acres in East Java, and all efforts to plug the mudflow have failed. The authors discuss the scale of the disaster; theories concerning its cause (due to natural factors or negligence?); the tangled politics complicating the relief and mitigation efforts, which have involved many uncoordinated governmental and non-governmental agencies, as well as Lapindo Brantas (which seeks to limit its liability); and the enormous human, social, and economic costs.Item Review of The Lion and the Gadfly: Dutch Colonialism and the Spirit of E. F. E. Douwes DekkerHeidhues, Mary Somers (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008-04)Item Review of The Image of the Other as Enemy: Radical Discourse in IndonesiaFealy, Greg (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008-04)