Territorial Change and Conflict in Indonesia

This book focuses on Indonesia and investigates why competition between various identity-affiliated groups to claim a new province, increases conflict severity.

Autorentext

Ratri Istania is an Assistant Professor at NIPA Polytechnic School of Administration (Politeknik STIA-LAN Jakarta) and Senior Researcher at Populi Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research, Jakarta, Indonesia. The preparation for this book was conducted while she was a Postgraduate Research Fellow and Part-time Faculty Member in the Political Science Department at Loyola University Chicago, USA.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

2 The Arguments Behind Territorial Autonomy and Conflict

3 Methodology

4 The Quantitative Study: New Province Claim and Conflict

5 Bima: Messy Beginning, Yet a Promising End

6 Cirebon: Too Many Interests, Too Little Consensus

7 Tana Toraja: Myth and Culture that Keep Toraja's People Together

8 Purwakarta: The Null Case

9 Connecting the Puzzle

Index