Security, Democracy, and Society in Bali

Andrew Vandenberg is a senior lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies at Deakin University, Australia. He researches unionism, social movements, parties, and democratisation in Sweden, Australia, and Indonesia. His books include Democracy and Citizenship in a Global Era (Macmillan 2000), and Education Policy and the Australian Education Union: Resisting Social Neoliberalism and Auditing Technology (2018).Nazrina Zuryani is an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Social and Political Science, Udayana University. She researches parties, local government and local administration. Her publications include Akuntabilitas Partai Politik (Accountability and Party Politics) (2015) and Penduduk dan Pajak (Population and Tax) (2015), written with nationally competitive funding, a team of co-authors, and close collaboration with leaders of the local public service and the local political parties.

• 1. The trouble with protection.- 2. The People Answer Back, A Case Study in the Balinese Asserting Their Opinion about the Ormas.- 3. The 2015 Billboards Campaign – what was that all about?.- 4. The historical construction of Bali’s security groups.- 5. “A combination of extortion and civic duty”: A comparative criminological perspective on Informal Security Organisations in Bali.- 6. Paradise Fabricated: Networking of Local Strongmen in Bali.- 7. The Transitional Democracy Trap: Democracy, Complexity, and Local Oligarchy in Bali.- 8. The Internal Governance of civil militia.- 9. Power and the Security Organisations in Bali: Drug Gangsters, Neighbourhood Watch Groups, or What?.- 10. Gender Dualism as Degendering Cosmic Multicultural Tolerance of Wargas: Community Security Practices in North Bali.- 11. Digital activism in Bali: The ForBALI Movement.- 12. Elected and Non-Elected Representative Claim-makers in Indonesia.- 13. Contesting Indonesia’s Democratic Transition: Laskar Jihad, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and Civil Society.