Margaret Scott | The New York Review of Books

The Price of Stability

“Prabowo’s victory opens a window onto how the depredations, violence, and corruption of the Suharto era unevenly influence the present.”

March 30, 2024

Indonesia’s Corrupted Democracy

Behind the victory of his chosen successor in February’s elections lies a complicated story of how outgoing President Joko Widodo has co-opted much of Indonesian society while consolidating immense power.

The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia

by Marcus Mietzner

April 4, 2024 issue

Indonesia’s New Islamist Politics

Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia

by Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot

After Ahok: The Islamist Agenda in Indonesia

a report by the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict

April 18, 2019 issue

The Truth about the Killing Fields

The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder

by Jess Melvin

The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66

by Geoffrey B. Robinson

June 28, 2018 issue

Uncovering Indonesia’s Act of Killing

Documents covering the period of General Suharto’s rise to power in 1965-1966 offer a chilling account of how American officials in Jakarta closely monitored the extermination of as many as half a million Communists and goaded the Indonesian army to finish the job.

October 20, 2017

Indonesia: The Saudis Are Coming

Nurturing the Salafi Manhaj: A Study of Salafi Pesantrens in Contemporary Indonesia

by Din Wahid

Transnational Islamic Actors and Indonesia’s Foreign Policy: Transcending the State

by Delphine Alles

Our Islam, the Islam of Nusantara

by Mohamad Guntur Romli

October 27, 2016 issue

Indonesia: The Battle Over Islam

Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java: A Political, Social, Cultural and Religious History, c. 1930 to the Present

by M.C. Ricklefs

Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values

by Carool Kersten

Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance Without Liberalism

by Jeremy Menchik

May 26, 2016 issue

Indonesia's Cold War Secret

A cache of intelligence documents declassified by the CIA this fall offers a new opportunity to revisit the 1965 mass killings in Indonesia, and what the US knew about them.

November 2, 2015

Indonesia Reborn?

August 13, 1998 issue

Epilogue

June 11, 1998 issue