Table of Contents

Introduction | Primary Players / Benedict Anderson

1. Aceh

2. Java

3. Batavia

4. From Sukabumi to Leiden

5. Jakarta

6. Hazardous Waters

7. At Sea in Peranakan Politics

8. The Baperki Wars

9. Out of the Ethnic Cage

10. Into New Order Indonesia

11. Early New Order Battlefields

12. Reform Frontiers

13. Law as Politics: A Sidetrip to Detention

Epilogue | A Steady Course / Arlene O. Lev

Postscript | New Order Landmark Case / Sebastiaan Pompe and Ibrahim Assegaf

Appendix | Defense Summation in Asep Suryaman Trial / Yap Thiam Hien

Glossary

Notes

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Daniel S. Lev (1931-2006) was professor of political science at the University of Washington. Among his publications are Legal Evolution and Political Authority in Indonesia: Selected Essays; Islamic Courts in Indonesia: A Study in the Political Bases of Legal Institutions; The Transition to Guided Democracy: Indonesian Politics, 1957-1959, and, as coeditor, Making Indonesia.

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