This paper aims to examine how several types of engagements within civil society, namely (a) inter-communal civic engagement, (b) self (community) policing and (c) elite integration, can contain communal violence, at the proximate level, in Indonesia. Based on Indian data, Varshney found that...

This paper is the first of a series of studies on social conflicts in Indonesia. The purpose of this paper is to provide an anatomy of social violence in terms of their patterns, trends, regional distribution, severity and intensity. The study includes all incidents of social violence that took...

Utilising a newly created data set we examine the relationship between routine/everyday violence and fiscal decentralization in 98 districts of the Indonesian island of Java. By examining possible relationships between fiscal decentralization and routine violence, this paper fills a gap in the...