Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

For over sixty years, conflict between state forces and armed ethnic groups was ongoing in parts of the borderlands of Burma. Ethnic minority communities were subjected to systematic and widespread abuses by an increasingly complex patchwork of armed state and non-state actors. Populations in more remote and disputed border areas typically had little to no access to even basic healthcare...

Indonesia is currently affected by many serious conflicts which have arisen as a result of a variety of ethnic, religious, and regional tensions. Violent Conflicts in Indonesia presents important new thinking on violent conflict in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation. Examining a selection of conflicts in detail, the book discusses the nature of violence and the reasons behind violent outbreaks....