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I. Introduction: The relationship between culture and politics in Indonesia -- The dangers of cultural research -- Culture in research on the state -- The problems of a patrimonial approach to cultural policy -- The state in cultural research -- Foucault, the state and policy -- Discourses and cultu...

Contents note continued: cultural policy and a cultural polemic -- Cultural policy during the Japanese occupation -- The occupying Japanese cultural policy infrastructure -- Japanese cultural policy's impacts and effects -- Conclusion -- III. From cultural regulation to cultural leadership: the chan...

Contents note continued: The New Order Regime's political discourses and strategies -- The Pan-Indonesian arts community and the New Order Regime -- Indigenous ethnic cultures -- Responses to changing social conditions and political imperatives in the 1980s and 1990s -- Conclusion -- V. New Order Cu...

Contents note continued: Decentralization and the growing importance of ethnic and local identity politics -- Structural change and resistance in the directorate of culture -- Cultural policy in decentralized Indonesia: the characteristics of regional diversity -- The new public morality in Indonesi...

Contents note continued: State-run cultural research and publications -- Locating local culture -- The new order text: acehnese marriage as a national cultural ritual -- The new order text: state research methods for local culture -- The new order text: Controlling Cultural Difference -- The New Ord...