1st Edition

Disintegrating Indonesia? Implications for Regional Security

By Tim Huxley Copyright 2002
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

Since the collapse of President Suharto's New Order regime in 1998 and the international intervention in East Timor in 1999, there has been much speculation in South-east Asia and the West over whether Indonesia - weakened by economic difficulties, social distresses and political instability - has a future as a coherent nation-state. This paper argues that although the separatist struggles in... Read more

Introduction, Chapter 1 Indonesia's multi-dimensional crisis Chapter 2 Managing separatism Chapter 3 Horizontal conflict: inter-communal violence and Islamic politics Chapter 4 Regional and international implications of Indonesia's disarray

Biography

Tim Huxley (Center for South-East Asia Studies, University of Hull)