Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University

Indonesia Expertise

The Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University is celebrating twenty years as an international leader in the study of East and Southeast Asia, producing cutting edge multi-disciplinary research in politics, political economy, modes of governance, social change and policy making. Its distinctive contribution to the research debate is based on the proposition that these factors have their roots in broader processes of conflict and change in society that are connected to the advance of market economies. The approach is comparative and theoretically based.

For two decades, this research has been published in leading academic journals and with international publishers. Its impact is reflected in continuing success in attracting competitive funding, fellowships and awards as well as in citations. Graduates of the Centre’s Ph.D programme are successful in a range of careers in research and policy areas.

The Asia Research Centre is located in the School of Management and Governance and affiliated with the Social Research Institute at Murdoch University. The Centre encompasses researchers from across Murdoch University and regularly engages in collaboration with researchers from other universities around the world.

Among the research projects currently being conducted at the Centre are:

• New Modes of Governance and Political Regimes in Southeast Asia ProfessorGarryRodanandAssociateProfessorCarolineHughes

• Understanding the Political Dimensions of Development Policy, Institutional Reform and Good Governance

EmeritusProfessorRichardRobison,AssociateProfessorCarolineHughes,DrJaneHutchisonandDrIanWilson

• Social Capital, Natural Resources and Local Governance in Indonesia

AssociateProfessorCarolWarren

• The Political Economy of Islamic Populism: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective

ProfessorVediHadiz

• Global Economy in the Context of Human-Environment Interaction ProfessorJamesWarren

• Governance and Non-traditional Security in Southeast Asia and the West Pacific

DrShaharHameiri

Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University Indonesia Expertise

Asia Research Centre Staff

Associate Professor Caroline HughesDirector,AsiaResearchCentreAuthor of ThePoliticalEconomyofCambodia’sTransition,1991-2001 (Routledge 2003) and DependentCommunities:AidandPoliticsinCambodiaandEastTimor (Cornell SEAP 2009).Supervision interests: Politics of post-colonial state-building in South East Asia; politics of post-conflict reconstruction and international aid policy.

Professor Richard RobisonAuthor of Indonesia:TheRiseofCapital (Allen and Unwin 1986), and ReorganisingPowerinIndonesia:thepoliticsofoligarchyinanageofmarkets(Routledge 2004) [with Vedi Hadiz].Supervision interests: Political and economic change in Indonesia; political economy; comparative political Islam; the politics of governance.

Professor Vedi HadizAuthor of LocalisingPowerinPost-AuthoritarianIndonesia:ASoutheastAsiaPerspective (Stanford University Press 2010)Supervision interests: Issues of social, economic and political change in Indonesia and Southeast Asia as well as broader political economy and political sociology questions.

Professor David HillAuthor of JournalismandPoliticsinIndonesia:ACriticalBiographyofMochtarLubis(1922-2004)asEditorandAuthor(Routledge 2010) and co-editor (with Krishna Sen) of PoliticsandtheMediainTwenty-FirstCenturyIndonesia:DecadeofDemocracy (Routledge 2011).

Supervision interests: Contemporary Indonesian media, literature, culture and politics; political biography and life-writing in Indonesia; history of the Indonesian Left abroad since 1965.

Professor James WarrenAuthor of Pirates,ProstitutesandPullers:ExplorationsintheEthno-andSocialHistoryofSoutheastAsia (UWA Press 2008). Supervision interests: Southeast Asian social and economic history; Singapore Chinese working class history and society since 1880; Slavery and other forms of unfree labour in Southeast Asia; Climate, History and Society in Southeast Asia.

Professor Malcolm TullPresident of the Economic Society of Australia Inc., Western Australian Branch, Editor of Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience (Edward Elgar, 2008).Supervision interests: Maritime economic history; applied maritime economics; port and fishing industries; climate change and fisheries.

Professor Neil LoneraganDirector of the Centre for Fish, Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystem Fisheries Research (CFFAER).Supervision interests: Fisheries ecology and fisheries interactions with protected, threatened and endangered species.

Associate Professor Carol WarrenEditor of Community,EnvironmentandLocalGovernanceinIndonesia:LocatingtheCommonweal (Routledge 2008)[with John McCarthy] and author of ‘Adat dalam praktik dan wacana orang Bali’ in AdatDalamPolitikIndonesia (Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia 2010).Supervision interests: The environment, land tenure and rural development policy in Southeast Asia.

Dr Ian WilsonAuthor of ThePoliticsofProtectionRacketsinPost-NewOrderIndonesia(Routledge, forthcoming) Supervision interests: The sociology of gangs and paramilitary groups; criminality and its links with state institutions; the politics of Indonesian martial and performing arts; the anthropology of the body, especially ‘embodied’ forms of nationalism and state instituted disciplinary regimes.

Select Books on Indonesia by Asia Research Centre authorsDavid Brown ContemporaryNationalism:Civic,EthnoculturalandMulticulturalPolitics, London, Routledge, 2000.

Vedi Hadiz Translationof‘TheIndonesianStateSecretariat1945-1993’byRobinsonPangaribuan, Asia Research Centre, 1995.

ThePoliticsofEconomicDevelopmentinIndonesia:ContendingPerspectives, Routledge, 1997 (with I Chalmers).

WorkersandtheStateinNewOrderIndonesia, Routledge, 1997.

IndonesianPoliticsandSociety:AReader, Routledge, 2003 (coeditor with D Bourchier).

ReorganizingPowerinIndonesia:ThePoliticsofOligarchyinanAgeofMarkets, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 (with R Robison).

EmpireandneoliberalisminAsia,Routledge, 2006.

LocalisingPowerinPostAuthoritarianIndonesia:ASoutheastAsiaPerspective, Stanford University Press, 2010.

Shahar Hameiri RegulatingStatehood:StateBuildingandtheTransformationoftheGlobalOrder, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Christopher Hill SurvivalandChange:ThreeGenerationsofBalinesePainters, Pandanus Books, 2006.

David HillQuartering:TheStoryofaMarriageinIndonesiaDuringtheEighties, by Ruth Havelaar, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies Monograph 24, Monash University Press, 1991 (editor). Translated into Dutch by E van Dijk and published as Inkwartiering,De Geus, Breda, 1992.

Media,CultureandPoliticsinIndonesia, Oxford University Press, 2000 (with K Sen). Translated into Indonesian by S Syah and published as Media,BudayadanPolitikdiIndonesia, Jakarta, ISAI & PT Media Lintas Inti Nusantara, 2001.

TheInternetinIndonesia’sNewDemocracy, Routledge, 2005 (with K Sen).

JournalismandPoliticsinIndonesia:ACriticalBiographyofMochtarLubis(19222004)asEditorandAuthor, Routledge, 2009.

PoliticsandtheMediainTwentyFirstCenturyIndonesia:DecadeofDemocracy, Routledge, 2011 (coeditor with K Sen).

Jane Hutchison OrganisingLabourinGlobalisingAsia, Routledge, 2001 (coeditor with A Brown).

Caroline HughesDependentCommunities:AidandPoliticsinCambodiaandEastTimor, Cornell Southeast Asia Publications, 2009.

Robinson Pangaribuan TheIndonesianStateSecretariat1945-1993, Asia Research Centre, 1995.

Richard Robison SoutheastAsiainthe1990s:Authoritarianism,DemocracyandCapitalism, Allen and Unwin, 1993, (coeditor with K Hewison and G Rodan).

TheNewRichinAsia:MobilePhones,McDonaldsandMiddleclassRevolution, Routledge, 1995 (coeditor with DSG Goodman).

PathwaystoAsia:ThePoliticsofEngagement, Allen and Unwin, 1996 (editor).

ThePoliticalEconomyofSoutheastAsia:AnIntroduction,Oxford University Press, 1997 (coeditor with K Hewison and G Rodan).

PoliticsandMarketsintheWakeoftheAsianCrisis, Routledge, 1999 (coeditor with M Beeson, K Jayasuriya & HR Kim).

ThePoliticalEconomyofSouthEastAsia:Conflict,Crises,andChange, Oxford University Press, 2001 (coeditor with K Hewison and G Rodan).

ReorganisingPowerinIndonesia:ThePoliticsofOligarchyinanAgeofMarkets, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 (with V Hadiz).

NeoliberalRevolution:ForgingtheMarketState, Palgrave, 2006.

ThePoliticalEconomyofSouthEastAsia:Markets,PowerandContestation, , Oxford University Press, 2006 (coeditor with K Hewison and G Rodan).

GovernanceandtheAntiPoliticsofDevelopment,Routledge, 2008 (coeditor with W Hout).

RoutledgeHandbookofSoutheastAsianPolitics (edited), Routledge, 386 pp.

Malcolm Tull PortPrivatisation:TheAsiaPacificExperience, Edward Elgar, 2008 (coeditor with J Reveley).

Carol WarrenAdat&Dinas:BalineseCommunitiesintheIndonesianState, Oxford University Press, 1993.

ThePoliticsofEnvironmentinSoutheastAsia:ResourcesandResistance, Routledge, 1998 (coeditor with P Hirsch).

Community,EnvironmentandLocalGovernanceinIndonesia:LocatingtheCommonweal, Routledge, 2009 (coeditor with J McCarthy).

James Warren IranunandBalangingi:Globalization,MaritimeRaidingandtheBirthofEthnicity, Singapore edition: Singapore, Singapore University Press, 2002.

Pirates,ProstitutesandPullers:ExplorationsintheEthnoandSocialHistoryofSoutheastAsia, University of Western Australia Press, 2008 and New Day Publishers, 2009.

Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University Indonesia Expertise

Asia Research Centre Authors

The New Rich in Asia Series

OrganisingLabourinGlobalisingAsiaJane Hutchison and Andrew Brown (eds), Routledge, 2001

• NeworganisingvehiclesinIndonesia:OriginsandprospectsVediRHadiz

ConsumptioninAsia:LifestylesandIdentitiesChua Beng-Huat (ed.), Routledge, 2000

• GlobalLifestylesunderLocalConditions:theNewIndonesianMiddleClassSolvayGerke

CultureandPrivilegeinCapitalistAsiaMichael Pinches (ed.), Routledge, 1999

• Theyearsoflivingluxuriously:identitypoliticsofIndonesia’snewrichArielHeryanto

• ThenewrichandculturaltensionsinruralIndonesiaHansAntlov

GenderandPowerinAffluentAsiaKrishna Sen and Maila Stivens (eds), Routledge, 1998

• Indonesianwomenatwork:reframingthesubjectKrishnaSen

• LoveandSexinanIndonesianminingtownKathrynRobinson

PoliticalOppositionsinIndustrialisingAsiaGarry Rodan (ed.), Routledge, 1996

• Indonesianmiddle-classoppositioninthe1990sArielHeryanto

• ThebroadeningbaseofpoliticaloppositioninIndonesiaEdwardAspinall

TheNewRichinAsia:MobilePhones,McDonaldsandmiddle-classrevolutionRichard Robison and David S G Goodman (eds) Routledge, 1995

• ThemiddleclassandthebourgeoisieinIndonesia

Asian Capitalisms Series Edited by Richard RobisonLaw,CapitalismandPowerinAsia:TheRuleofLawandLegalInstitutions Kanishka Jayasuriya (ed.) Routledge, 1999

• ThepoliticaleconomyofinstitutionalreforminIndonesia:thecaseofintellectualpropertylawAndrewRosser

• Magicmemos,collusionandjudgeswithattitude:notesonthepoliticsoflawincontemporaryIndonesiaDavidBourchier

PoliticsandMarketsintheWakeoftheAsianCrisis Richard Robison, Mark Beeson, Kanishka Jayasuriya and Hyuk-Rae Kim (eds), Routledge, 2000

• Survivingthemeltdown:liberalreformandpoliticaloligarchyinIndonesiaRichardRobisonandAndrewRosser

CollectiveGoods,CollectiveFuturesinAsiaSally Sargeson (ed.), Routledge, 2002

• CustomaryregimesandcollectivegoodsinIndonesia’schangingpoliticalconstellationCarolWarrenandJohnMcCarthy

Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University

Current PhD Students studying Indonesia under ARC supervisorsNicole Andres Media-eliteinteractionsinpost-SuhartoIndonesia

Luky Djani ReformMovementandLocalPoliticsinIndonesia

Jodie Goodman PatternsofparticipationinlocalgovernanceandnaturalresourcemanagementinIndonesia-casestudiesfromNusaTenggara

Asep Iqbal ReligiousIdeologicalShapingofTechnology:TheInternetandtheSalafiMovementinContemporaryIndonesia

Vanessa Jaiteh Predatorsaslivelihoods:optionsandobstaclesforsharkmanagementinEastIndonesia

Airlangga Pribadi Kusman LocalPowerandGoodGovernanceinPostAuthoritarianIndonesia:TheCaseofSurabaya

Darmiyanti Muchtar TheRiseofLocalIslamicPoliticsinWestNusaTenggarainPost-AuthoritarianIndonesia:fromMargintoCenter?

Inaya Rakhmani RedefiningtheMarkersofIslamicRepresentationsinIndonesianTelevision

Past Postgraduate Students studying Indonesia under ARC supervisorsCarolin Liss MaritimePiracyinSoutheastAsiaandBangladesh,1992-2006:APrismaticInterpretationofSecurity(PhD)

Toby Carroll ThePoliticsoftheWorldBank’sSocio-institutionalNeoliberalism(PhD)

Kurt Stenross ThecultureandeconomyofthemaritimetransportcommunitiesoftheislandofMadura,Indonesia(PhD)

Kathleen Turner IdentityandtheState:AStudyofCommunalConflictinAmbon,Indonesia(PhD)

Henry Chen TaiwaneseOffshore(DistantWater)FisheriesinSoutheastAsia,1936–1977(PhD)

John McCarthy EnvironmentalPolicyinIndonesia(PhD)

Yasmin Sungkar IndustrialPolicy:TheEmergenceandSurvivalofStateOwnedHeavyIndustryinIndonesia(PhD)

Andrew Rosser CreatingMarkets:ThePoliticsofEconomicLiberalisationinIndonesiaSincetheMid-1980s(PhD)

Gaynor Dawson WomenandWorkinanIndonesianTransmigrationSettlement:KeepingtheRiceinthePot(PhD)

David Widihandoyo TheMakingofaPrecariousBourgeoisie:StateandtheTransformationofDomesticBourgeoisieinIndonesia(PhD)

Jocelyn Grace HealthdevelopmentandSasakwomen:apoliticalandpracticalanalysisofmedicalinterventioninruralEastLombok,Indonesia(PhD)

Vivianti Rambe ReinventingtheKeystoaSustainableRuralDevelopment:DiversityandComplexityinMainstreamingNaturalResourcesManagementwithinCommunityDrivenDevelopmentProgramsinSulawesi,Indonesia

Muninggar Saraswati SocialNetworkSitesandElectionCampaigninContemporaryIndonesia

Fabio Scarpello PolicingpostauthoritarianGlobalSouth:State,powerandcommunities

Dirk Steenbergen LocalGovernanceandParticipationinIndonesianmarineprotectedareas:examiningsystemsresilience,complexityandsocialcapital

Agung WardanaLawandtheStruggleOverSpace:ASocio-LegalResearchontheProductionofSpaceinContemporaryBali

Indonesia Expertise

Asia Research Centre Students

Vedi Hadiz ContradictionsofCorporatism:WorkersandtheStateinNewOrderIndonesia(PhD)

Desalwi Indonesia’sNewEconomicPoliciesandNon-oilExporttotheECBeyondthe1990s (MPhil)

Suzy Azeharie RepresentationsofwomeninFemina:anIndonesianwomen’smagazine(MPhil)

Jill Birt TheRejangofSumatra:Exploringculturethroughliteraryjournalism (MPhil)

SuharsonoAttitudesofyoungJavanesetowardtheirnativelanguage (MPhil)

Mark CloneyAustralia’seconomicintegrationwithAsia:governmentpolicy1983-1996 (MPhil)

Christopher HillBalinesepainting:approachingtheartofvillagepaintersacrosscultures (MPhil)

Darmiyanti MuchtarTheriseoftheIndonesianwomen’smovementintheNewOrderstate (MPhil)

Zulfitra Dianta Anis Ismusrenbang(developmentplanningdeliberation)adeliberativepracticeofdemocracy?:acriticalanalysisofpublicdecisionmakinginIndonesia  (MA)

Sudarmo ElectricitypriceinIndonesia:anevaluationofrecentpolicies (MA)

Muhammad ArifFiscalde-bureaucratisationinIndonesia:casestudyofTasikmalaya (MA)

Arif RahmanGoodgovernance,publicpolicyreformandeconomicdevelopmentinIndonesia (MA)

Ignasius IsmantoTheIndonesianautomotiveindustryintheliberalizingeconomy (MA)

M. HamidiIndonesia’senergypoliciesforoil,gasandelectricity,1970-1990 (MA)

Fathul Kamil TumbriyantoroNewpublicmanagementandprivatisationinIndonesia:Indosat:acasestudy (MA)

Achmad Room Fitrianto ApolicygapanalysiswithreferencetothePorongmudvolcanoinSidoarjo-EastJawaProvince-Indonesia (MA)

José Antonio Morato TavaresTheroleofnon-governmentalorganizationsinthelivingstandardsimprovementsinIndonesia:prospectsandobstacles (MA)

Ilona Millar ThepoliticaleconomyofdeforestationinSuharto’sIndonesia (hons)

Snapshotsofresistance:towardsabroaderconceptofoppositionincontemporaryIndonesia Thomas A. Plummer (hons)

Roma Lester Indonesiansindomesticservice:achoiceforpoorwomen (hons)

Sean Ladlow Asia-PacificEconomicCooperation:adescriptiveanalysisofafreetradeagreement (hons)

Rebecca HicksWomenintourism:acasestudyofBukitLawang (hons)

Laksmi W. Pamuntjak TheIndonesianstudentmovementinthe1980s-1990s:thedevelopmentofresistancebya“marginalisedminority”(hons)

James A. McIntoshAbriintheneworder:politicaldominationordiminishinginfluence?Theincreasinglyambiguoussocio-politicalroleoftheIndonesianarmedforcesintheNew Order (hons)

David RayIndonesia:economicpolicyandtheforeigndebtproblem (hons)

Stephen DobbsTuanDjek:abiography (hons)

Bruce C. CampbellThepoliticsofexclusion:IndonesiandistantshorefisheriesandexpansionofAustralia’smaritimeboundaries (hons)

Peter KoffelEnvironmentalisminIndonesia:apeople’sapproachtocontemporaryforestissues (hons)

Warren Fasene Dawson AustralianperceptionsofJava:reflectionsonAustralia-Indonesianrelations:anepistemologicalinquiry (hons)

T.W.S. HogarthSacredgeographyinSouthernCentralJava (hons)

August SchlapferReactorsontheringoffire:Indonesia’sNuclearProgram:environmental,economic,politicalandsocialimplications (hons)

Fabio Scarpello“SSRandhybriddemocracies,acritique”:post-authoritariandemocratisationandmilitaryreforminIndonesia (hons)

Murdoch’s Asia Research CentreDue to its proximity to the Asian region and quality of social science and humanities research expertise on contemporary Asia, Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre is an excellent place at which to undertake postgraduate study on Asia. The Asia Research Centre regularly hosts up to twenty postgraduate research students that benefit from a supportive, collegial and stimulating atmosphere and play a vital role in progressing the Centre’s research agenda. The Asia Research Centre welcomes enquiries and applications from prospective research students.

Asia Research Centre Fellows also teach in the following Postgraduate Coursework degrees that enable students to develop a deeper understanding of Asia within or across disciplines:

• Master of Arts in Globalisation and Governance

• Master of Arts in Development Studies

• Master of Arts in Asian Studies

• Master of Arts in Security Studies

• Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Studies

• Postgraduate Certificate in Security, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies

• Graduate Certificate in Asian Languages

Contact DetailsAsia Research Centre Postgraduate Studies Co-ordinatorEmail: S.Hameiri@murdoch.edu.au

Asia Research Centre Administrative Officer Email: T.Dent@murdoch.edu.au