Verandah of Violence

Anthony Reid is the founding director of the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. A student of Aceh since the 1960s, he is also the author of An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra. Other contributors include Teuku Ibrahim Alfian, Edward Aspinall, M. Isa Sulaiman, Aleksius Jemadu, Damien Kingsbury, Lee Kam Hing, Leslie McCulloch, Rod McGibbon, E. Edwards McKinnon, Michelle Ann Miller, William Nessen, Peter G. Riddell, and Kirsten Schulze.

• Maps and IllustrationsIn MemoriamPrefaceAcknowledgementsSpelling and UsageContributorsGlossary and AbbreviationsChronology of Events1. Introduction, Anthony Reid2. Indian and Indonesian Elements in Early North Sumatra, E. Edwards McKinnon3. Aceh in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: "Serambi Mekkah" and Identity, Peter G. Riddell4. The Pre-modern Sultanate's View of its Place in the World, Anthony Reid5. Aceh at the Time of the 1824 Treaty, Lee Kam Hing6. Colonial Transformation: A Bitter Legacy, Anthony Reid7. Aceh and the Holy War (Prang Sabil), Teuku Ibrahim Alfian8. From Autonomy to Periphery: A Critical Evaluation of the Acehnese Nationalist Movement, M. Isa Sulaiman9. Violence and Identity Formation in Aceh under Indonesian Rule, Edward Aspinall10. Sentiments Made Visible: The Rise and Reason of Aceh's National Liberation Movement, William Nessen11. Military Business in Aceh, Damien Kingsbury and Lesley McCulloch12. Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency: Strategy and the Aceh Conflict, October 1976-May 2004, Kirsten E. Schulze13. Democratisation, the Indonesian Armed Forces and the Resolving of the Aceh Conflict, Aleksius Jemadu14. What's Special about Special Autonomy in Aceh?, Michelle Ann Miller15. Local Leadership and the Aceh Conflict, Rodd McGibbonBibliographyIndex

"There is hardly a better way to respect the memory of those tens of thousands of Acehnese who lost their lives in the tsunami, and in the preceding conflict, than to open their history to the outside world. One wishes to see that this book will be followed by a range of Aceh studies that will also look beyond the conflict and violence and see Acehnese people and their everyday lives."