Riots, pogroms, jihad : religious violence in Indonesia / John T. Sidel.

In October 2002 a bomb blast in a Balinese nightclub killed more than two hundred people, many of them young Australian tourists. This event and subsequent attacks on foreign targets in Bali and Jakarta in 2003, 2004, and 2005 brought Indonesia into the global media spotlight as a site of Islamist t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Sidel, John Thayer, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Indonesia : from ethnic conflict to Islamic terrorism?
  • Situating "Islam" in Indonesia : the matrix of class relations
  • Social transformation, 1965-1998 : konglomerat, kelas bawah, Islam
  • Buildings on fire : church burning, riots, and election violence, 1995-1997
  • Crisis, conspiracy, conflagration : Jakarta, 1998
  • From lynchings to communal violence : pogroms, 1998-2001
  • Jihad and religious violence in Indonesia, 1995-2005.