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Jakartabased Andreas Harsono is one of the most knowledgeable, experienced,high-profile and courageous of reporters and commentators on contemporaryIndonesian society. Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and ReligiousViolence in Post-Suharto Indonesia is the result of Harsono's fifteenyear project to document how, in post-Suharto Indonesia, race and religion havecome to be increasingly prevalent within the nation's politics. From itswesternmost island of Sabang to its easternmost city of Merauke in West Papua,from Miangas Island in the north, near the Philippines border, to Ndana Island,close to the coast of Australia, Harsono reveals the particular culturalidentities and localised political dynamics of this internally complex andriven nation. This informed personal travelogue is essential reading forIndonesia watchers and anyone seeking a better understanding of contemporaryIndonesia. A passionate seeker of human rights protections, civil liberties,democracy, media freedom, multiculturalism and environmental protection,Harsono reminds us that Indonesians 'still have not found the light at the endof the tunnel'.

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Andreas Harsono, author of a number of books, began his career as a reporter for the Bangkok-based Nation and the Kuala Lumpur-based Star newspapers. In the 1990s he helped establish Jakartas Alliance of Independent Journalists and was a founder of the Jakarta-based Institute for the Studies on Free Flow of Information and of the South East Asia Press Alliance, in Bangkok. In 2003 he helped create the Pantau Foundation, a journalist training organisation also based in Jakarta, and since 2008 he has covered Indonesia for Human Rights Watch.

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