Explaining Collective Violence in Contemporary Indonesia: From Conflict to Cooperation

by Z. Tadjoeddin

Tadjoeddin uniquely explores four types of violent conflicts pertinent to contemporary Indonesia (secessionist, ethnic, routine-everyday and electoral violence), and seeks to discover what socio-economic development can do to overcome conflict and make the country's transition to democracy safe for its constituencies.

237 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Eskil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tadjoeddin gives a clear hypothesis and explores his objects of scrutiny in a straight-forward manner which was easy enough for me to follow as a non-political scientist. Some of the statistics were a bit too complicated for me, personally, but I suspect people in the know won't mind. In any case, I didn't need them to follow his reasoning and understand his conclusions.