Dedicated to George McT. Kahin, this collection examines the genesis and evolution of the modern Indonesian nation-state. Essay topics range from the nation's imaginative conception to the Suharto ...government's political and financial infrastructure. Contributors include F.P. Bunnell, R. McVey, T. Shiraishi, and B. R. O'G. Anderson.
No Concessions Lev, Daniel S; Anderson, Benedict
12/2011
eBook
The compelling personal story of human rights lawyer Yap Thiam Hien (1913-1989) brings decades of modern Indonesian history to life.No Concessionsis a penetrating analysis of the trajectory of the ...Chinese minority in Indonesia over close to a century and the remarkable making of a civic leader. Without abandoning his ethnic roots, Yap transcended them by becoming a courageous legal defender of civil and human rights of all oppressed Indonesians, including former communists and radical Muslims.
Lev discusses the use of notions such as "culture" and "democracy" when discussing foreign cultures and how they shape one's understanding. The less one knows about a foreign society, the more one is ...likely to use such terms and color one's perception.
Yap Thiam Hien and Aceh Lev, Daniel S.
Indonesia (Ithaca),
10/2006, Letnik:
82, Številka:
82
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Lev explores the life and career of Yap Thiam Hien, a lawyer and human rights activist. Yap Thiam Hien was a founding member of the Badan Permusyawaratan Kewarga-Negaraan Indonesia (Baperki) and a ...major proponent of strengthening the rule of law in Indonesia. He defended the unpopular former foreign minister, Subandrio, in the Mahmillub (Military Tribunal-Extraordinary) trials in 1966 and was a firm advocate of the full legal equality of Chinese Indonesians. He was closely involved in the Legal Aid Institute (LBH, Lembaga Bantuan Hukum) and in nearly every major national project of legal reform or defense of human rights in Indonesia. He was the first recipient of the Justice William J. Brennan award for the defense of Human Rights.
The Criminal Regime Lev, Daniel S
Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam,
05/2018
Book Chapter
If nature pondered a means of keeping assorted intellectuals, philosophers, lawyers, social scientists, and reformers off the streets, it could not do better than to give them criminality to think ...about. There is not much about crime on which students of it agree. Is it eternal, caused by a never ending supply of evil people, do otherwise good people make bad mistakes, or are we all victims of our economic and social conditions? Is it fundamentally a matter of cultural construction, or social construction, or elite construction; religious tenet, moral consensus, political will, economic interest?¹
If criminality is a quagmire,
In few discussions of fundamental change in Indonesia are lawyers likely to win much attention as agents of it.¹ The neglect is understandable, for until recently lawyers have had relatively little ...influence on anything, let alone fundamental change. Moreover, their peculiar ideological vision—the “law state,”rechtsstaat,rule of law, ornegara hukumin the Indonesian variant of the idea—is no match for the glamour of such more obvious revolutionary claims as those of Communism or Islam or even “development.” Yet, in the Indonesian setting, thenegora hukumidea is at least equally ambitious and nearly as radical.
Gradually,
This essay will examine patterns of change in Indonesia’s legal system since the Revolution, in order to try to make clear why and how functions of law in the colony have come to be served by ...institutions other than the law in the independent state. It will also explore how judicial institutions relate generally to political and economic processes and to cultural values. The end result should be the beginning of an assessment of the place of legal institutions in Indonesian state and society. If the approach followed here is a valid one, it may lead to useful generalizations about
Foreword Daniel S. Lev
The Indonesian Supreme Court,
05/2018
Book Chapter
When President Suharto resigned his presidency under pressure in May of 1998, one of the loudest and most insistent demands that ensued was for legal reform, which meant, basically, guaranteeing ...honest, consistent, and predictable legal process. It was hardly new. Since the fall of the parliamentary system and the appearance of Guided Democracy in the years 1957-1960, followed by the New Order’s coup of 1965, regrets over the decline of thenegara hukum—the “law state,” Indonesia’s version of the continentalrechtsstaat—and demands that it be restored were among the loudest static that Indonesia’s political elite heard and essentially
