Territorial Change and Conflict in Indonesia: Confronting the Fear of Secession

This book focuses on Indonesia and investigates why competition between various identity-affiliated groups to claim a new province, increases conflict severity.

Ratri Istania is an Assistant Professor at NIPA Polytechnic School of Administration (Politeknik STIA-LAN Jakarta) and Senior Researcher at Populi Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research, Jakarta, Indonesia. The preparation for this book was conducted while she was a Postgraduate Research Fellow and Part-time Faculty Member in the Political Science Department at Loyola University Chicago, USA.