Partners - Southeast Asia
The Southeast Asia programme is focusing attention on Indonesia and Malaysia, societies with rich and contrasting historical experiences in policies and outcomes in relation to ethnic inequality and conflict. Both are large multiethnic countries belonging to the same so-called Malay world, with Islam a dominant religion.
Recent history shows Indonesia as less successful than Malaysia in sustaining a stable multiethnic society. Ethnic conflict has been a regular feature of Indonesia's history, both before and after independence. As a case study of the dynamics of ethnic conflict and inequality, Indonesia's size - one of the most populous and diverse countries in the world, with more than 200 million citizens from over a hundred ethnic groups - and tragic history thus provide the opportunity to study a wide range of conflict scenarios, from the separatist struggles of East Timor, Aceh and West Papua and the state-sponsored massacres of 1965 and 1975-80, to the recent outbreaks of communal violence of Maluku and Kalimantan.
In contrast, Malaysia is widely accepted as a country which has been remarkably - perhaps uniquely - successful in managing and containing ethnic conflict in a post-colonial context against expectations. Without prejudging the conclusions of CRISE's work, it seems clear that much of Malaysia's success has been due to its ethnic redistributive policies, which have gone a long way towards redressing the gross economic inequalities left by the colonial period whilst being accompanies by high growth rates for a sustained period of decades. Whilst pertinent questions remain about the political practices of the regime and, perhaps, the level of political inequality in the country, the inclusion of Malaysia in the research project was very much on the grounds of it being a 'good' case study, from which to learn both the advantages and pitfalls of ethnic redistribution.
The Southeast Asia programme thus provides the opportunity both for studying the role of horizontal inequalities in provoking ethnic conflict and for exploring possible policy solutions to prevent such occurrences.
Individual projects:
Khoo Kay Jin
Independent consultant
kjkhoo@streamyx.com
Individual projects:
Joao Saldanha
Director, Timor Institute for Development Studies
Horizontal inequalities in Timor Leste (East Timor)
Main partner: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo
Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta
Ethnicity and decentralization politics in the post-Suharto Indonesia
Individual projects:
Dahniar Andriani
Director, Bantaya Foundation, Palu
Between district creation and power struggle in the Pekurehua adat community in Kecamatan Lore North, Poso Kabupaten
Yustina Devi Ardhiani
Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta
Relations between Preman and the Military in Yogyakarta: A potrait of military policies and force during the New Order
Ikrar Nusa Bhakti
Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta
Military politics, ethnicity and conflict in Indonesia
Lindra Darnela
Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN, National Islamic University), Yogyakarta
The influence of pesantren on local government policy: Case study of Syari'at Islam in Tasikmelayu kabupaten, East Java
Akh. Muzakki
Research Centre, IAIN Sunan Ampel, Surabay
Cheng Ho Mosque: indigenising Chinese culture, distantiating CHECK from the state political hegemony
Laksmi Rachmawati
Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta
Conflict, Ethnicity and Re-districting in Kalimantan
Yustinus Tri Subagya
Centre for History and Political Ethics, University of Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta
Struggling From The Ruins Of Life: Women Voices For Peace Building And Reconciliation In Poso
Yasmin Sungkar
Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta
CRISE Perceptions Survey
Trisno S. Sutanto
Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta
Broken identities: National policy and the identity struggle of the Indonesian Christian Church
Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin
United Nations Support Facility for Indonesian Recovery (UNSFIR)
Natural resources and conflict in Indonesia
Ju Lan Thung
Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta
julan@indo.net.id
Suranjan Weeraratne
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Explaining the variation in collective violence against the ethnic-Chinese community in Indonesia
suranjan.weeraratne@mail.mcgill.ca
Individual projects:
Maznah Mohamad
Universiti Sains Malaysia
The Making and Unmaking of Inequality in Malaysia
Chin Yee Wah
School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang
Economic liberalisation: towards inter-ethnic business development in Malaysia
Ragayah Haji Mat Zin
Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM)
CRISE Perceptions Survey, Malaysia
Wan Abdul Manan Bin Wan Muda
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Policy levers in Malaysia
Imtiyaz Yusuf
Department of Philosophy and Religious, Assumption University, Bangkok
The Role of the Chularajmontri / Shaikh al-Islam in Resolving the Ethno-Religious Conflict in Southern Thailand
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