Damien Kingsbury is Senior Lecturer in International Development at Deaking University, Melbourne. Harry Aveling is Deputy Head of the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

'It is a rich source of material and questions that will enable the reader to at least think in an informed way about these issues.' - Journal of Asian Studies'This is a very thought-provoking book, and it provides a vivid, if disturbing, portrait of a nation in transition and crisis.' - Journal of Asian Studies

• Part 1: Themes and Issues 1. Nation versus State in Indonesia 2. Forming Nations: Beyond Western-Centrism 3. The State and Status of the Nation: A Historical Viewpoint 4. Indonesia Since President Wahid: Problems and Prospects of Democratization 5. Indonesian Decentralization: Local Autonomy, Trade Barriers and Descrimination Part 2: The Regions 6. Diversity in Unity 7. Papua and Indonesia: Where Contending Nationalisms Meet 8. Modernity, History and Ethnicity: Indonesian and Acehnese Nationalism in Conflict 9. Aceh in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Protracted Conflict Amid Democratization 10. The Struggle for Political Reform in South Sumatra 11. The First Year of Local Autonomy: The Case of West Sumatra 12. Resisting the Mainland: The Formation of Bangka-Belitung Province