State of fear / Joshua Barker -- Military ideology in response to democratic pressure during the late Suharto era / Jun Honna -- Thoughts on the violence of May 13 and 14, 1998 in Jakarta / James T. Siegel -- Pemuda Pancasila / Loren Ryter -- The trouble with normal / Douglas Kammen -- Waiting for the end in Biak / Danilyn Rutherford -- Rawan is as rawan does / Geoffrey Robinson
Summary
Nine chapters examine the political contexts, uses, and implications of violence under and within Suharto's regime in Indonesia. An unhappy spectrum of violence is described: crime and policing, military ideology and democratic resistance, the imposition of austerity measures and the riots that followed
