Edition No. 52 October-December, 1997

Imagining Islam

 

In this issue
Newsbriefs

      Summary reports on current affairs

How Muslims will say 'No'
      Prospects for Islamic opposition - George Aditjondro
A local hero
      Kiai Alawy of Madura - Gerry van Klinken
Islam in opposition? It's not that simple
      Muslims have a stake in the status quo - Greg Barton
Portrait of a female preacher
      Ibu Alfiyah Muhadie - Nelly van Doorn
Itinerant scholars
      Indonesian Islam's international links - Karel Steenbrink
Breaking out!
      Young progressives in traditional Islam - Djohan Effendi
Rationality and the clitorectomy
      A Spaniard learns about Islam - Margaret Coffey

Writing on the wall
      Yogyakarta graffiti - Mas Sujoko
Death of a journalist
      The murder of Yogya journalist Udin - Amnesty International
Love at first sight
      Burma's Slorc meets Indonesia's Abri - Andreas Harsono
Fading signal
      Cuts to Radio Australia's Indonesia program - Stanley
Lippogate? Not really
      Riady's contributions to the US Democrats - Jay Losher

Gone fishing
      Exploitation of child labour in the Malacca Straits - Ahmad Sofian
What the elite do when their banks are in trouble
      Two cases: Bank Yama and Bank Pacific - Suara Independen
Bank Pacific and the fall of Endang
      Suara Independen

Rock'n'Roll radicals
      Indonesianisation of foreign musical genres - David Hill and Krishna Sen

Tim Lindsey's 'Romance of K'tut Tantri'
      Ron Witton
Robert Lowry's 'The Armed Forces of Indonesia'
      Russell Miles
Barton and Fealy (eds) 'Nahdlatul Ulama'
      Nelly van Doorn
Norman Lewis' 'An Empire of the East'
      Michael Hermes
Michel Picard's 'Bali: Cultural Tourism ...'
      Ron Witton

Indonesia on the net
      John MacDougall

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