WPS 107 Syarikat and the Move to Make Amends for the Nahdlatul Ulama’s Violent Past

The role of Indonesia’s largest Islamic organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), in the killings of approximately 500,000 leftists in 1965-66 was not a particularly sensitive issue within NU circles for the duration of the anti-communist New Order regime (1966-1998). Just two years after the fall of the regime, however, young members of NU founded the NGO …

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Contemporary Kayagum Music in Korea

Contemporary Kayagŭm Music in Korea offers the first book-length account of a new musical genre developed in post-war South Korea for kayagŭm, a traditional 12-stringed long board zither. The book examines the process by which a traditional instrument has become a vessel for the expression of new ideas concerning modernity, tradition and identity by examining history …

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From Rebellion to Riots: Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo

From Rebellion to Riots is a critical analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia’s most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. Citing evidence from his research, internal military documents and ethnographic accounts, Jamie S. Davidson refutes popular explanation for these flare-ups. The recurrent riots have less to do with the clash of cultures, the …

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WPS 106 Japan–The Tiny Dwarf? Sino-Japanese Relations from the Kangxi to the Early Qianlong Reigns

Sino-Japanese relations experienced great qualitative changes during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. By the reign period of the Yongzheng Emperor (r. 1723–1735) one can even speak of a partial reversal of the former master-vassal relationship, which existed during the Ming period: whereas during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Japan was the vassal which had …

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Labour Mobility in Asia-Pacific Region

Driven by demographic changes, and reinforced by intensifying globalization, international labour mobility has been on the rise in recent decades in the Asia-Pacific region. It seems that, after trade and investment, labour mobility constitutes the final frontier for regional integration among the Asia-Pacific economies. There is no doubt that labour movements are integral to regional …

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Laskar Jihad: Islam, Militansi dan Pencarian Identitas di Indonesia

Buku ini memberikan banyak perhatian pada tema-tema besar juga menganalisis pengealam hidup individual para pengikut Laskar Jihad, Disini ditemukan hal- hal yang membantu kita memahami asal- usul naka- anak muda yang disiapkan untuk mengikuti Ja’far Thalib berjihad.  

Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific Asia: Urban Dynamics in a Global Era

The rapid urban transition now underway in Asia focuses on a limited number of mega-urban regions (MURs) that have reached population sizes in excess of 10 million people. This book examines four of these urban agglomerations–Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh–in Southeast Asia and two Shanghai and Taipei–in East Asia. The conventional use of …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 4 No. 2)

Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research, and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population studies …

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