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Item Editorial Note, Indonesia, volume 80, (October 2005)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)Item The Other Maluku: Chronologies of Conflict in North MalukuDuncan, Christopher R. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)Christopher Duncan studies the violence in North Maluku that took place between August 1999 and June 2000 in Tobelo (Halmahera), taking into account local perceptions of the conflict, which in many cases pitted Christians against Muslims, and its evolution over time. The essay presents competing chronologies of the North Maluku violence based on accounts from victims and perpetrators and examines how interpretations of these clashes were utilized by local leaders and communities to influence the course of events.Item Table of Contents, Indonesia, volume 80, (October 2005)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)Item Contributors, Indonesia, volume 80, (October 2005)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)Item Pilkada in East Sumba: An Old Rivalry in a New Democratic SettingVel, Jacqueline (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)As part of Indonesia’s decentralization process, direct elections of regional heads, gubernur and bupati, have been introduced. These elections are referred to by the abbreviation Pilkada. With enhanced regional autonomy and the increased budget, the position of bupati has become very attractive. Those aspiring to become bupati must now compete to win the votes of the electorate. This article investigates a campaign in East Sumba and the candidates’ strategies under these new conditions. It seeks to discover whether the entrenched political-administrative elites generally succeed in capturing this latest institution of democracy, too, or if a direct election opens up opportunities for new candidates. This essay thus contributes to the debate on the development of democracy in Indonesia by examining the case of pilkada in East Sumba.Item Review of Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West JavaMrázek, Jan (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)Item Review of Durga's Mosque: Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Central Javanese IslamFeener, R. Michael (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)Item Review of Raja Bilah and the Mandailings in Perak: 1875-1911Rodgers, Susan (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)Item Review of The Collapse of a Colonial Society: The Dutch in Indonesia during the Second World WarIngleson, John (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)Item Urban Patterns and Polities in Malay Trading Cities, Fifteenth through Seventeenth CenturiesGuillot, Claude (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)Claude Guillot studies maps and histories of three walled Malay trading cities— Malacca, Banten, and Aceh—focusing on the ways in which their physical structures provide evidence of their social structures, especially as they show enterprising foreigners were segregated from the city centers. He concludes that this segregation, and related policies, effectively stifled the development of an urban middle class or its equivalent.Item Review of Indonesian Houses: Tradition and Transformation in Vernacular Architecture and Constituting Unity and Difference: Vernacular Architecture in a Minangkabau VillageHicks, David (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)Item The Curse of the Photograph: Atjeh, 1901Siegel, James T. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)James Siegel examines why photography was not adopted by the Atjehnese to memorialize local scenes and people in the same way it was by the Dutch and the Javanese. He analyzes the photographs of C. Niewenhuis, who accompanied the Dutch forces during a violent campaign to pacify the Atjehnese resistance, and concludes that the Atjehnese had no need of such images because their engagement in a holy war or jihad rendered memorialization meaningless.Item Revisiting "Rural" Java: Agrarian Research in the Wake of Reformasi: A Review EssayHart, Gillian; Peluso, Nancy Lee (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)Item Islamic Justice, State Law, and Cultural Politics in Indonesia: A Review EssayPeletz, Michael G. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)Item Indonesian Casualties in East Timor, 1975–1999: Analysis of an Official Listvan Klinken, Gerry (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)The Indonesian armed forces have published on the internet a detailed list of their deaths in combat over the course of the occupation of East Timor. Despite some sloppy mistakes, it appears to be largely accurate. The corrected list shows about 2,100 regular soldiers died. Another list of 1,500 East Timorese irregulars was not made public. Half the casualties occurred before the end of 1978, when resistance was strongest. About 80 percent of Indonesia's battalions, from all over the country, took at least one death. The figures illustrate a pattern consistent with low-intensity warfare.Item Current Data on the Indonesian Military EliteThe Editors (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)The essay analyzes civil-military relations and the impact of personnel changes within TNI between March 1, 2003 and August 31, 2005. It examines particularly the hard-line trend of the army led by Gen. Ryamizard Ryacudu, as evident in the war in Aceh under the Megawati administration; the role of the TNI during the legislative-presidential elections in 2004; and efforts by the new president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to reconstruct TNI leadership and its political positioning. The essay is accompanied by a list of current officers and their posts.Item Back to the Barracks: in Post-Tsunami Aceh Relokasi PengungsiHedman, Eva-Lotta E. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2005-10)This paper provides some preliminary glimpses of displacement and relocation in the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami, which forced an estimated half million people to leave their homes in Aceh. It focuses attention on troubling questions raised by the Indonesian government’s announced relokasi pengungsi (relocate displaced persons) program, including questions concerning the role of the military, the rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), and the intervention of international humanitarian organizations in areas of protracted conflict.