Table of Contents

Articles Titik Api: Harry Roesli, Music, and Politics in Bandung, Indonesia by Adam D. Tyson Betawi Moderen: Songs and Films of Benyamin S from Jakarta in the 1970s-Further Dimensions of Indonesian Popular Culture by David Hanan and Basoeki Koesasi The Music of Bedhaya Anduk: A Lost Treasure Rediscovered by Noriko Ishida Ulama Hill by Benedict R. O'G. Anderson The Free Aceh Elections?: The 2009 Legislative Contests in Aceh by Shane Joshua Barter Stalin and the New Program for the Communist Party of Indonesia by Larisa M. Efimova, with introduction by Ruth T. McVey The Perfect Policeman: Colonial Policing, Modernity, and Conscience on Sumatra's West Coast in the Early 1930s by Marieke Bloembergen Review Essay: Islam in the Indonesia Tradition-Luthfi Assyaukanie, Islam and the Secular State in Indonesia; Robin Bush, Nahdlatul Ulama and the Struggle for Power within Islam and Politics in Indonesia by Robert Hefner Reviews Andrew N. Weintraub, Dangdut Stories: A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's Most Popular Music reviewed by R. Anderson Sutton Henry Spiller, Erotic Triangles: Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java reviewed by Christina Sunardi Masdar Hilmy, Islamism and Democracy in Indonesia: Piety and Pragmatism reviewed by Michael Buehler Bernard Platzdasch, Islamism in Indonesia: Politics in the Emerging Democracy reviewed by Julie Chernov Hwang Edward Aspinall and Marcus Mietzner, eds., Problems of Democratisation in Indonesia: Elections, Institutions, and Society reviewed by Peni Hanggarini Abidin Kusno, The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia reviewed by Howard Federspiel Cynthia Chou, The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia: The Inalienable Gift of Territory reviewed by Timo Kaartinen Peter Post, William H. Frederick, Iris Heidebrink, Shigeru Sato, et al., The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War: In cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation reviewed by I Ketut Ardhana

About the Author

Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the Director of the Comparative Muslim Societies Program, the Director of the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, and is coeditor of Cornell's journal Indonesia. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier and The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca.