...Robert J. Antony Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia . By Stefan Eklöf Amirell . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . 266 pp. ISBN: 9781108484213 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 No longer...

... Indonesians, the past several years have been a time of uncertainty, fear, violence, and, as van Dijk points out, "despair." Van Dijk's treatment joins Stefan Eklof s Indonesian Politics in Crisis (Copenhagen: NIAS, 1999) and Richard Mann's Fightfor Democracy in Indonesia (Singapore: Gateway Books, 1999...

..." of Indonesia's transition away from authoritarian rule, for many Indonesians, the past several years have been a time of uncertainty, fear, violence, and, as van Dijk points out, "despair." Van Dijk's treatment joins Stefan Eklof s Indonesian Politics in Crisis (Copenhagen: NIAS, 1999) and Richard Mann's...

... impeded efforts to contain the abuse. The book's last two essays offer a similarly jaundiced view of what one might call uncivil society. In a reexamination of the 1965 66 killings in Bali, Stefan Eklof agrees with Robinson that state rivalries exacerbated local tensions, but attempts to bring culture...

... to be backwards (Eklof 1987 , 125–26). In early revolutionary Soviet Russia, according to Ben Eklof ( 1987 , 132), literacy embodied “militarization, brutality, siege mentality, and habits of command and compulsion.” Literacy was a “campaign,” in the military sense of the term, and became, during Stalin's First...

.... Causes of Elderly Suicide, How to Assess Suicide Risk, Preventive Measures. Singapore: Times Books International, 2001. I l l pp. $24.90 (paper). EKLOF, STEFAN. Indonesian Politics in Crisis: The Long Fall of Suharto. 1996-98. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 1999- xii, 272 pp. FORRESTER, G...