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Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance, And Regime Change In Indonesia
Edward Aspinall

Stanford University Press, 2005

Opposing Suharto presents an account of democratization in the world?s fourth most populous country, Indonesia. It describes how opposition groups challenged the long-time ruler, President Suharto, and his military-based regime, forcing him to resign in 1998. The book?s main purpose is to explain how ordinary people can bring about political change in a repressive authoritarian regime. It does this by telling the story of an array of ...

The Helsinki Agreement: A More Promising Basis for Peace in Aceh?
Edward Aspinall

East-West Center Washington, 2005

This study examines the latest attempt to bring an end to one of Asia?s longest-running separatist conflicts. In August 2005 in Finland, representatives of the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement signed an agreement which sets down the outline of a comprehensive settlement to the Aceh conflict. Until recently, this conflict had appeared close to intractable. Earlier attempts to reach a negotiated settlement between 2000 and 2003 ...

Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralization and Democratization (Indonesia Update Series)

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003

Offering comprehensive coverage of decentralization in Indonesia, this work contains contributions on a wide range of topics relating to democratization, devolution and the blossoming of local-level politics.

Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia (Studies in Asian Security)
Edward Aspinall

Stanford University Press, 2009

Rooted in the latest theoretical debates about nationalism and ethnicity, yet written in an accessible and engaging style, "Islam and Nation" presents a fascinating study of the genesis, growth, and decline of a nationalist movement. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with nationalist leaders, activists and guerillas, Aspinall reveals how the Free Aceh Movement went from being a quixotic fantasy to a guerrilla army in the space of a generation, ...

The Aceh Peace Process: Why it Failed
Edward Aspinall, Harold Crouch

East-West Center Washington, 2003

This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the history and dynamics of Aceh's abortive peace process conducted between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian government. After surveying the origins and progress of the negotiations, the paper examines the roles played by the main players, the problems encountered along the way, and the achievements that were registered. Currently the peace process has broken down because the two ...