Western contact with the highland Dani of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, began in the period following the Second World War. By the 1960s, most highland Dani accepted evangelical mission Christianity as a response to the outreach of Westerners and Indonesian missionaries. The demise of …
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This study examines the emergence of the New Order's official narrative of the Lubang Buaya, killings, focusing above all, on the origins of this story. Despite the unclear, controversial nature of the event, which for years has sparked controversy among both foreign and domesti…
This study critically examines technological nationalism in Indonesia. It focuses on the Indonesian Aircraft Industry (IPTN), which was economically, politically, and ideologically nurtured by the New Order regime (1966–1998). Four major questions are raised in this study: How h…
This thesis explores the conversion experiences of the Buda, an ethnic Sasak minority in northern Lombok-Indonesia, long primitivized by dominant Sasak Muslim groups for practicing non-religious rituals prior to their formal conversion to Buddhism at the outset of the New Order …
This dissertation tackles one central problem: What were the intellectual and social origins of New Order Indonesia (1966-1998)? The analytic lens that this study employs to examine this society is the Indonesian middling classes' pursuit of modernity. The dissertation comes in …
This study describes how the New Order regime created and used a particular version of the Indonesian past. This official past drew on the work of “the history industry” (archaeological and historical research) and is reflected in approved works of history writing. The New Order…