Introduction: criminality and its others / Vicente L. Rafael -- From darkness to light: the optics of policing in late-colonial Netherlands East Indies / Rudolf Mrz̀ek -- Colonial criminals in Java, 1870-1910 / Henk Schulte Nordhold, Margreet van Till -- The usual suspects: Nardong Putik, Don Pepe Oyson, and Robin Hood / John Sidel -- Surveillance and territoriality in Bandung / Joshua Barker -- "Who will save us from the 'law'?": the criminal state and the illegal alien in post-1986 Philippines / Caroline S. Hau -- The history of the modern prison and the case of Indochina / Peter Zinoman -- Open secrets: excerpts from conversations with a Javanese lawyer, and a comment / John Pemberton -- A new criminal type in Jakarta: the nationalization of "Death" / James T. Siegel -- Flying a kite: the crimes of Pramoedya Ananta Toer / Hendrik M.J. Maier
Summary
A complex examination of "criminality" and "the criminal" as constructs and active presences in Southeast Asia. Contributors explore such themes as surveillance, incarceration, law and custom, secrecy, and corruption. A fascinating study of power and subversion in the modern postcolonial nation-state. Contributors include Daniel S. Lev, Henk M.J. Maier, Rudolf Mrazek, James T. Siegel, and others
