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...Chaider S. Bamualim The article discusses a particular Islamist militant movement in Indonesia, the Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam, or FPI). Gaining considerable following and influence in post-Suharto Indonesia, the FPI called for the implementation of Sharia law addressing...

... of their awareness of belonging to Indonesia. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Selective Accommodation: The Hadhramis in Indonesia during World War II and the Struggle for Independence Huub de Jonge iving in diaspora in times of peace is different from living in a host country during...

...Noorhaidi Hasan Duke University Press 2007 The Salafi Movement in Indonesia: Transnational Dynamics and Local Development Noorhaidi Hasan n the mid-1980s Indonesia began witnessing the expansion of the so-called Salafi Da‘wa movement, made evident...

...Martin Slama The article compares Hadhrami communities located in two different parts of Indonesia: Java, Indonesia’s central island, and rather peripheral Central and North Sulawesi. The comparisons generated the following results: in Sulawesi, regulations implemented by the Dutch colonial...

...Sumit K. Mandal This article explores how Arabness has been rediscovered in the Malay world—in this instance Indonesia and Malaysia and, to some extent, Singapore—from the early 1990s to the present. Arabs, mostly of Hadhrami descent, are an intimate part of local culture, given the shared faith...

...Annette Damayanti Lienau This article centers on a novelistic adaptation of the Indic Javanese epic Arok Dedes written by one of Indonesia’s most prominent novelists, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a proponent of socialist realism in Indonesia and a translator of Maxim Gorky into Indonesian. Drawing from...

...Felicitas Becker Becker’s article focuses on similarities between arguments about funerary ritual, in particular the rite of telkin (admonition), among Muslim congregations in Highland Aceh, Indonesia, and in parts of Tanzania. It discusses the Sufi and scholarly networks that most likely explain...

...Kelvin Ng Abstract In this article, Ng examines Tan Malaka's engagements with labor universalism and Muslim universality in his respective attempts to theorize the problematic of minority subjectivity vis-à-vis universal emancipation. Located at the periphery of global capitalism, Indonesia, though...

... currently embraced by Western culture and through this understanding of art, I analyze the phenomenon in Indonesia of women veiling for fashion. Next, I explore the contemporary practice of veiling and contend that it is a response that religious individuals give to being thrown into an increasingly...

... conversations. The authors lament that “in exploring the leg- Doing research on diaspora groups in differ- acy of empire, postcolonial research has tended ent localities in Indonesia virtually forced us to to focus on individual nations rather than...

... think that any other type colonial powers that once dominated them. From a of literature is too sentimental, too primitive in its global perspective, for example, relatively little is known ideological alliances, or, in other words, not good litera- about the history and culture of Indonesia...

... in Indonesia. Both groups While these accounts of the construction of nationalist mustered great support during the colonial period, with the identities differ in their particulars, they all focus on the same Samaj boasting 1.5 million members by 19474 while actor: schools run directly by the colonial...

... Arbitration). These lawyers are normally employed in global law firms and/or their nominee firms (such as used in Indonesia). 11 As Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth have noted, these global law firms have until recently been primarily based in New York and London. 12 One major change over the last two...

..., Syria, and Yemen; and the Asian states of Burma, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines. With the admission of the restored republic of Indonesia to the UN, Indonesia immediately joined the now-thirteen members of the Arab-Asian group. This initial Arab-Asian group, though short-lived, was an important...

... pology from the University of California, Irvine, 2009. in Irvine, California, of University the from pology Indonesia. and West Java, Jakarta in contemporary identity authentic...

... hodgepodge of Crown colonies, federated and unfederated Malay states, and three separate realms across the northern shelf of Borneo and Brunei, whose potential coherence and consolidation only came into view—and into partial effect—once Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand were unified...

..., and many other related cultural and economic areas. These matrilineal Muslims were present in South and Southeast Asia and eastern Africa, from Minangkabau in Indonesia to Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia, from the Coromandel and Malabar coasts and the Lakshadweep Islands in India to Ampara, Batticaloa...

... convergence that is coming from the and European vernacular knowledge. ex–Third World (BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, In this regard, CSSAAME has an enormous China, and South Africa], Singapore, Indonesia, contribution to make in building global futures. Turkey, Malaysia) shall go hand in hand...

... states.” Asia’s second and should be situated inside a larger, universal fascist largest communist party, the PKI in Indonesia, had paradigm. been liquidated to the tune of a million dead, and Achin Vanaik has attempted to engage this same across the globe the American crusade against “So...

... articles. ofseveral author the is and 2006) Publications, Program Asian Southeast University (Cornell Indonesia Order inPost–New Identity for Quest the published has He Indonesia. Yogyakarta, Kalijaga Sunan sity Univer- Islamic State atthe politics and Islam...