Indonesia, Vol. 094, October 2012
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Item Front Cover and Title Page, Indonesia, Volume 94 (October 2012)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2012-10)Item Editors' Note, Indonesia, Volume 94 (October 2012)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2012-10)Item Table of Contents, Indonesia, Volume 94 (October 2012)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2012-10)Item Contributors, Indonesia, Volume 94 (October 2012)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2012-10)Item Review of Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West PapuaErrington, Joseph (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2012-10)Item From Foe to Partner to Foe Again: The Strange Alliance of the Dutch Authorities and Digoel Exiles in Australia, 1943-1945Poeze, Harry A. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2012-10)In March 1943, Boven Digoel, the notorious Dutch internment camp in the New Guinea jungle, was evacuated. The inmates, some five hundred political prisoners, the majority of them communists, were brought to Australia. The highest Dutch official there, unconventional Ch. O. van der Plas, employed them for anti-Japanese propaganda activities, and endorsed and stimulated the establishment of Serikat Indonesia Baroe (SIBAR, Association for a New Indonesia), an organization intended to become in the post-war Indies a national party, with official Dutch backing. He consciously sought the support of the exiles, in the SIBAR partnership, that went far beyond other colonial–communist cooperation endeavors in Southeast Asia. This alliance between Dutch authorities and Indonesian communists was conveniently forgotten after the Japanese surrender.Item Housing the Margin: Perumahan Rakyat and the Future Urban Form of JakartaAbidin, Kusno (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2012-10)"Housing the Margin” analyzes current national housing policies for the urban poor and their effects on citizenship and urban form in Jakarta. It looks at the way in which the pro-poor housing program has been integrated into urban renewal, land certification, and “slum free initiatives” of the city. It argues that the new housing program for the poor operates under a condition of neoliberalism that demands an integration of the land market, a displacement of the poor to the fringes of the city, and a change in the future geography of Jakarta.Item "We the (Chinese) People": Revisiting the 1945 Constitutional Debate on CitizenshipChandra, Elizabeth (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2012-10)This article looks at the debate on citizenship at the constitutional convention on the eve of Indonesia’s independence in 1945. In that defining moment, the definition of “citizen” eventually adopted by the Constitution identified “indigenous Indonesians” as the principal component of the nation, making a distinction for the first time between indigenous citizens and citizens of foreign descent. This distinction would come to haunt the Chinese minority and complicate their integration in postcolonial Indonesia, and was blamed for much of the political inequality that they had to endure. The recent passage of the 2006 Nationality Law, and particularly its redefinition of “indigenous” to incorporate the Chinese, has been hailed as a groundbreaking step towards equality. But a close examination of deliberations on citizenship at the 1945 constitutional convention reveals some surprises, including scepticism on the part of the Chinese delegates with regard to Indonesian citizenship.Item Review of Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian, 1950-1965Suryadi (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2012-10)Item Where Are They Now? The Careers of Army Officers Who Served in East Timor, 1998-99Kammen, Douglas (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2012-10)This essay reviews the subsequent careers of Indonesian Armed Forces (Tentara Nasional Indonesia, TNI) officers who served in East Timor during the height of the violence there, an action that left at least 1,500 East Timorese dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. A list of TNI officers supplements the essay, recording available details about each officer’s post, history of service, religion, place of origin, the charges leveled in court against particular individuals, when applicable, and the results of those court contests. The author concludes that the engagement of a number of these military men in politics since 1999 “and their candidacies for elected office are cause for concern.”