To Singapore's immediate south, Indonesia's Riau Islands has a population of 2 million and a land area of 8,200 sq kilometres scattered across some 2,000 islands. The better-known islands include: Batam, the province's economic motor; Bintan, the area's cultural heartland and site of the...

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- The Indonesia National Survey Project: Economy, Society and Politics -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ECONOMY -- 3. SOCIETY -- 4. POLITICS -- 5. CONCLUSION

Most literature on the economic crisis in indonesia has focused on the negative macro-economic impacts during the "crisis- years" of 1997-99. The case studies presented in this book take a different perspective. With a longitudinal research perspective, this comparative study analyses a wide...