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{"title":"Dynastic democracy: political families in Thailand","authors":"J. Sidel","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2216975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2216975","url":null,"abstract":"election outcome in favour of candidates who have every intention of abusing their position if successful. With these thoughts in mind, it is easy to see why legislating against ‘vote buying’ has superficial appeal to politicians – especially corrupt politicians in no way threatened by an unenforceable law. The important point to note, however, is that the underlying problem is endemic corruption, not gift-giving per se, which, in principle at least, may actually reflect high-minded intentions. Making ‘vote buying’ illegal simply allows the political class to appear to care about eradicating corruption, while contributing little if anything towards achieving that objective. The author notes that some analysts have advocated the provision of public funding to allow ‘clean’ candidates to compete on more equal terms with those minded to recoup the cost of getting elected using corruptly generated future income. The logical flaw here is that the cost of an election campaign is not fixed. Each campaigner would have to be given the same amount, and if all campaigners find an extra, say, $10,000 in their bank account, it can be assumed that all those with a reasonable prospect of success will increase their campaign spending by about that amount. There is no obvious reason to assume this extra spending will generate more votes for ‘clean’ candidates, so this policy seems incapable of achieving the desired result. In summary, this book will be useful to those with a general interest in election campaigning in Indonesia and other countries characterized by endemic corruption, but its analytical contribution is compromised by Kramer’s perception of ‘vote buying’ as a cause of corruption rather than a consequence. The experienced and accomplished candidate, Bontor, seeing no conflict between anticorruptionism and ‘vote buying’ – or, rather, gift-giving – seems to this reviewer to have the more commonsense view of this issue.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48247043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Postcolonial hangups in Southeast Asian cinema","authors":"Dag Yngvesson","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2114714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2114714","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46767835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"State of disorder: privatised violence and the state in Indonesia","authors":"Gerry van Klinken","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2128400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2128400","url":null,"abstract":"There seem to be semi-organized young men with a potential for disorder everywhere in Indonesia. From parking attendants in Jakarta to chainsaw gangs in the jungles of Borneo; from ‘security units’ for political parties to martial arts clubs; from neighbourhood watches to military auxiliaries, these groups often serve multiple purposes beyond their stated one. In an environment of high youth underemployment, poorly regulated markets and competitive inter-elite politics, they are an unruly, though photogenic, face of Indonesian politics at many levels. This book is a welcome addition to an already extensive literature about political thuggery in Indonesia. It is an ambitious project. A great range of episodes in which gangs of young men known colloquially as preman have been controversial passes the revue. There are historical sections on the semi-criminal jago that indirectly propped up the colonial plantation economy in Java and on the mostly religious gangs that assisted the military in wiping out the communist party in 1965. There are contemporary sections on the Pancasila Youth groups in North Sumatra helping plantation companies secure the land they want and on the Islamic groups that intimidate alcohol-sellers and nightclubs in Javanese cities like Solo and Jakarta. There are ethnic gangs helping Dayak gubernatorial candidates in Kalimantan and jihadist groups trying to steer politics towards an Islamist revolution. The central thrust of the book is that, behind their diversity, these activities are all driven by one fundamental mechanism: ‘predatory capitalism’. This is another term for the more commonly understood Marxian concept of ‘primitive accumulation’. Marx intended it to portray an early stage of capitalism, in which capitalists first separate themselves by violently expropriating the means of production from others. But Mudhoffir sees the process alive and well in Indonesia today. Indeed, the violence that these gangs practise serves largely to reproduce the system of primitive accumulation, while preventing it from growing into the more regulated modern form. Other authors on preman gangs have often seen them as vehicles by which the poor acquire some agency. Mudhoffir, by contrast, sees them only as instruments in the hands of powerful state and business elites. The poor enrol in them for the pragmatic reason that there is money to be made from these disruptive activities. One of them told him (108):","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47577242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The first Vietnam War: violence, sovereignty, and the fracture of the South, 1945-1956","authors":"Bruce Lockhart","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2155398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2155398","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44162197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eunuchs in Vietnam: what’s missing?","authors":"Katherine A. Bowie","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2153724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2153724","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In comparison with other historical courts of South East Asia, in which eunuchs had minimal presence, Vietnamese courts were outliers in the large numbers, in-country origins, administrative importance and long duration of their use of eunuchs, lasting into the early twentieth century. Given their importance in Vietnamese courts, it is remarkable that eunuchs have received little explicit attention. For scholars who are not specialists of Vietnam, it would be easy to overlook the important historical role eunuchs have played. Divided into four sections, this essay provides an overview of the literature on eunuchs in the Vietnamese court. The first section describes the importance of eunuchs within the palace, in national administration and in international relations. The second section discusses the sourcing of eunuchs, noting possible differences in the Vietnamese and Chinese patterns with regard to age, social status and hermaphrodism. The third section reviews the evidence of historical shifts over time. The final section suggests that the more deliberate inclusion of eunuchs presents additional avenues by which to better understand the political logics and dynamics of Vietnamese history.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48693764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Local social movements and local democracy: tin and gold mining in Indonesia","authors":"A. Savirani, I. Wardhani","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2148553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2148553","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates the strategies used by local social movements to respond to increased extractive industry activities in decentralized Indonesia since 2001. Using tin mining in Bangka Belitung (Sumatra) and gold mining in Banyuwangi (East Java) as case studies, this article explores how local democracy, including political decentralization that gives power to local government and societal organizations, has contributed to local social movements’ strategies to advocate the interest of local people, and what type of outcomes they have reached. This article argues that local democracy has indeed created spaces for citizens and social movements to express their grievances. However, results have been mixed, in part due to power relations within local governments, social movements’ chosen strategies and the features (history and scale of involved capital) of mined commodities.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47494472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategic hedging: a case study of nineteenth-century Siam","authors":"Gustavo Mendiolaza, Ben Rich, A. Muraviev","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2138777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2138777","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A longstanding view in realist studies of international relations has been that within the context of great power competition, lesser states must choose between balancing or bandwagoning. However, a third option is also available: strategic hedging, which provides a means of explaining foreign policy strategies that do not traditionally fit within this standard binary. This article seeks to explain the Kingdom of Siam’s (modern-day Thailand) foreign policy during the nineteenth century when growing competition between European powers, namely France and Britain, manifested itself in aggressive and competitive intervention into South East Asia. Siam presents a unique case study, as it is one of only two states in Asia to resist direct colonization during that period. This article explores how, through a flexible foreign policy of strategic hedging in which complementary and mutually counteracting actions were undertaken within a wider context of great power competition, Siam maintained independence as a sovereign state.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42720421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Race, sexuality and prostitution in colonial Singapore: reading J. G. Farrell's The Singapore Grip","authors":"P. Maurya, Nagendra Kumar","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2140069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2140069","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The brothel business flourished parallel to industrial and commercial growth in colonial Singapore during the early twentieth century. This article explores the British Empire's role in proliferating prostitution in colonial Singapore as depicted in James Gordon Farrell's historical novel, The Singapore Grip (1978). It argues, as the novel describes, that the British administration in Singapore played a vital role in promoting prostitution for its ulterior economic and political motives. Fuelled by a fallacious notion of racial supremacy, the British authorities in colonial Singapore compromised the lives – social, economic and physical – of girls and women inducted into prostitution. The article concludes with a section on the role and contribution of the prostitutes in the making and sustaining of Singapore, which has been overlooked in traditional, patriarchal historiography.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44018801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adapting to local markets and political changes: Chinese businesses in Malaysia and Indonesia","authors":"Lee Kean Yew, J. D. Tan","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2145989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2145989","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The economic prosperity of Asian tigers is largely dependent upon the role of ethnic Chinese in forming an economic elite across the countries. The emerging countries of Asia are a diverse group, but Malaysia and Indonesia have a shared history that results in a familial bond between these two countries, with embedded similarities in language, culture and religion. Both countries have experienced an important structural shift in Chinese Malaysian and Chinese Indonesian businesses. Studies have also shown that these ethnic businesses function successfully in their home countries, resulting in inter-ethnic business partnerships between Chinese and Bumiputera or Pribumi, to the extent that collaboration is seen as one of the strategies for business survival. This has led to changing perceptions of ethnic ties. However, scholars have often neglected the relationship between ethnic businesses and political changes with regard to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia and Indonesia across generations. To shed some light on the issues and challenges of ethnic Chinese businesses in Malaysia and Indonesia, especially SMEs, we investigate cultural assimilation and adaption process to demonstrate how an ethnic enterprise functions following the emergence of political changes across generations in terms of its targeted market and the types of goods and services it provides.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46314894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Finding eunuchs in imperial Vietnam: questions and sources","authors":"B. Davis","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2153725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2153725","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Written as a response to Katherine Bowie's essay (‘Eunuchs in Vietnam: What's Missing?’), this piece presents some introductory research on the role of eunuchs in the court culture and the everyday administration of imperial Vietnam during the Nguyễn dynasty (1802–1945). In addition to explaining the role of eunuchs in Vietnamese historiography, this essay critically evaluates claims about eunuchs in nineteenth-century Vietnam through Vietnamese sources, including secondary research and primary sources.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49565146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}