Damien Kingsbury is Senior Lecturer in International Development at Deaking University, Melbourne. Harry Aveling is Deputy Head of the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

• Part 1: Themes and Issues 1. Nation versus State in Indonesia 2. Forming Nations: Beyond Western-Centrism 3. The State and Status of the Nation: A Historical Viewpoint 4. Indonesia Since President Wahid: Problems and Prospects of Democratization 5. Indonesian Decentralization: Local Autonomy, Trade Barriers and Descrimination Part 2: The Regions 6. Diversity in Unity 7. Papua and Indonesia: Where Contending Nationalisms Meet 8. Modernity, History and Ethnicity: Indonesian and Acehnese Nationalism in Conflict 9. Aceh in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Protracted Conflict Amid Democratization 10. The Struggle for Political Reform in South Sumatra 11. The First Year of Local Autonomy: The Case of West Sumatra 12. Resisting the Mainland: The Formation of Bangka-Belitung Province

'It is a rich source of material and questions that will enable the reader to at least think in an informed way about these issues.' - Journal of Asian Studies'This is a very thought-provoking book, and it provides a vivid, if disturbing, portrait of a nation in transition and crisis.' - Journal of Asian Studies

Damien Kingsbury is Senior Lecturer in International Development at Deaking University, Melbourne. Harry Aveling is Deputy Head of the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

• Part 1: Themes and Issues 1. Nation versus State in Indonesia 2. Forming Nations: Beyond Western-Centrism 3. The State and Status of the Nation: A Historical Viewpoint 4. Indonesia Since President Wahid: Problems and Prospects of Democratization 5. Indonesian Decentralization: Local Autonomy, Trade Barriers and Descrimination Part 2: The Regions 6. Diversity in Unity 7. Papua and Indonesia: Where Contending Nationalisms Meet 8. Modernity, History and Ethnicity: Indonesian and Acehnese Nationalism in Conflict 9. Aceh in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Protracted Conflict Amid Democratization 10. The Struggle for Political Reform in South Sumatra 11. The First Year of Local Autonomy: The Case of West Sumatra 12. Resisting the Mainland: The Formation of Bangka-Belitung Province

'It is a rich source of material and questions that will enable the reader to at least think in an informed way about these issues.' - Journal of Asian Studies'This is a very thought-provoking book, and it provides a vivid, if disturbing, portrait of a nation in transition and crisis.' - Journal of Asian Studies

Damien Kingsbury is Senior Lecturer in International Development at Deaking University, Melbourne. Harry Aveling is Deputy Head of the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

• Part 1: Themes and Issues 1. Nation versus State in Indonesia 2. Forming Nations: Beyond Western-Centrism 3. The State and Status of the Nation: A Historical Viewpoint 4. Indonesia Since President Wahid: Problems and Prospects of Democratization 5. Indonesian Decentralization: Local Autonomy, Trade Barriers and Descrimination Part 2: The Regions 6. Diversity in Unity 7. Papua and Indonesia: Where Contending Nationalisms Meet 8. Modernity, History and Ethnicity: Indonesian and Acehnese Nationalism in Conflict 9. Aceh in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Protracted Conflict Amid Democratization 10. The Struggle for Political Reform in South Sumatra 11. The First Year of Local Autonomy: The Case of West Sumatra 12. Resisting the Mainland: The Formation of Bangka-Belitung Province

'It is a rich source of material and questions that will enable the reader to at least think in an informed way about these issues.' - Journal of Asian Studies'This is a very thought-provoking book, and it provides a vivid, if disturbing, portrait of a nation in transition and crisis.' - Journal of Asian Studies