In Search of Middle Indonesia

Gerry van Klinken, PhD (1996), Griffith University, Australia, senior researcher at KITLV and professor of Southeast Asian history at University of Amsterdam, wrote Communal violence and democratization in Indonesia (2007). He coordinated the research programme for this book.Ward Berenschot, PhD (cum laude, 2009) in political science at University of Amsterdam, is the author of Riot politics (2011). His research focuses on local democracy, political clientelism and identity politics. He is a post-doctoral researcher at KITLV, Leiden.

• About the AuthorsPrefaceList of IllustrationsIntroduction: 1. Gerry van Klinken - Democracy, markets and the assertive middle Class:2. Ben White - Betting on the middle? Middletown, Mojokuto and ‘Middle Indonesia’3. Nicolaas Warouw - Working class revisited: Class relations in Indonesian provincial towns 4. Jan Newberry - Class Mobil The state:5. Sylvia Tidey - A divided provincial town: The development from ethnic to class-based segmentation in Kupang 6. Wenty Marina Minza - Ethnicity and young people’s work aspirations in Pontianak 7. Amalinda Savirani - Resisting reforms: The persistence of patrimonialism in Pekalongan’s construction sector Everyday culture:8. Cornelis Lay (with Gerry van Klinken) - Growing up in Kupang 9. Noorhaidi Hasan - Islam in provincial Indonesia: Middle class, lifestyle and democracy 10. Joseph Errington - In search of Middle Indonesian: Linguistic dynamics in a provincial townBibliographyIndex

"Many of the chapters, then, are written by Indonesian scholars, and herein lies the value of this collection: it provides a view of contemporary society and democracy as it is seen by Indonesian people."– Emma Baulch, in Pacific Affairs 89.1 (2016), p. 230-232.