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In: | Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 25, 2019, 1&2, p. 297-300 |
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Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library
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Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
Physical Description: | 297-300 |
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ISSN: |
2324-2035
1023-9499 |
DOI: | 10.24135/pjr.v25i1and2.492 |
published in: | Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa |
Language: | Undetermined |
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Collection: | Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library (CrossRef) |
<jats:p>Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia, by Andreas Harsono. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing. 2019. 288 pages. ISSN 978-1-925835-09-0.THIS PASSIONATE book is something of a cross between an inspired political travelogue, journalistic catalogue of insights into suffering and a cathartic defence of human rights. Published on the eve of the Indonesian national elections on 17 April 2019 and barely a month after the Christchurch mosque massacre, from a Pacific perspective Race, Islam and Power is also an impeccably timed analysis of how the centralised political system has failed many of the country’s 264 million people – especially minorities and those at the margins, such as in West Papua.</jats:p> |