Religious Violence in the Indonesian Democratic Era

A False Start? Indonesian Business Associations as Democratic Actors in the Immediate Post-Soeharto Era

islam and violence in the modern era

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A Chinese Indonesian Mosque’s Outreach in the Reformasi Era

In the post-Suharto Reformasi era, Chinese Indonesians are enjoying new freedom to express their culture. The ethnic Chinese number around three million, making up about 1.5% of the nation’s population (Suryadinata 2004c: vii). Chinese Muslims constitute a minority religious group within this minority ethnic group, and little research has been done on them. Jacobsen (2005) puts forward a pessim...

Sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

logical trauma during war. Based on studies of Vietnam veterans and veterans with war-related traumas, an Institute of Medicine committee concluded that there is sufficient evidence of an association between deployment to a war zone and suicide in the early years after deployment. Study limitations include the potential for misclassification and underreporting of suicide, although this would be...

Indonesian men's perceptions of violence against women.

This article explores male perceptions and attitudes toward violence against women in Indonesia. It analyzes interview data from Indonesian men collected as part of a large multimethod Australian government-funded project on masculinities and violence in two Asian countries. Reluctance to talk about violence against women was evident, and the accounts of those men who did respond referred to th...