Indonesia has transformed from one of South East Asia’s most repressive and centralised political systems to its most decentralised and democratic. Despite this, obstacles still remain that hinder Indonesia achieving the ‘rule of law’, and in particular, the country is consistently ranked as having one of the highest levels of corruption in the world. This book assesses Indonesia’s anti-corruption reforms over the past decade, focusing on the Anti-corruption Commission (KPK) and the Anti-c...

Indonesia has a growing population of almost 300 million people, it is increasingly involved in world affairs, and has a booming economy. The need to better understand its unique, complex, and often obscure legal system, has become pressing. This is true across a wide range of sectors including, but not limited to, trade and investment, crime and terrorism, and human rights. Indonesia's democratization after the fall of Soeharto in 1998 triggered massive social and political changes that o...

For decades, Indonesia's 1945 Constitution, the second shortest in the modern world, was used as an apologia by successive authoritarian regimes. A bare-bones text originally intended as a temporary measure, it did little beyond establish basic state organs, including a powerful presidency. It did not offer citizens real guarantees or protections. These weaknesses were ruthlessly exploited by the military-backed regime that President Soeharto headed from 1966 until his fall in 1998. The (f...

Deforestation in tropical rainforest countries is one of the largest contributors to human-induced climate change. Deforestation, especially in the tropics, contributes around 20 per cent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, and, in the case of Indonesia, amounts to 85 per cent of its annual emissions from human activities. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the emerging legal and policy frameworks for managing forests as a key means to address climate change.Th...

From the New York Times bestselling author of It's All Too Much and organizational expert on TLC's Clean Sweep comes a revolutionary guide on how to declutter and create the healthy life and body you've always imagined for yourself.Diets don't work. Why not? Because they focus on what foods we should and shouldn't eat but completely ignore everything else that makes us fat. Look at your own situation: You say you want to lose weight, but ...

Overwhelmed by the news cycle and the state of affairs in our world? Pastor, blogger, and powerful voice in the Resistance, John Pavlovitz has the answer: this rousing and inspirational guide, drawing from lessons of our favorite superheroes, for how we can band together, live more heroically (and meaningfully), and save the world.It’s exhausting to give a damn these days, isn’t it? Perhaps you’re feeling anguished about what you see on the news or...

The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare was roped in, as Victorian entrepreneurs transformed quiet Stratford-upon-Avon into a combination shrine and tourist trap.Stratford continues to lure the tourists today, as do many other sites of literary p...

Joshua Blahyi wuchs in Westafrika als Spross einer Familie von Zauberpriestern auf. Noch als Junge wurde er selbst Priester seines Stammes und entwickelte sich schnell zu einem der gefürchtetsten Warlords im von Bürgerkriegen erschütterten Liberia. Durch dämonische Kräfte ermächtigt, kämpfte und tötete Butt Naked, so sein Kriegername, nackt, und brachte mit eigenen Händen Menschenopfer dar. Doch dann begegnete ihm, wie einst Saulus, der Herr Jesus von Angesicht zu Angesicht.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.How do we hold onto friends and communities in a world that feels increasingly fragmented?This timely collection explores how social connection unfolds across personal, physical, community and digital spaces. From loneliness to belonging, the collection explores the broader social forces that shape our interactions. Packed with fresh insights and accessible research, the contributors bridge theory and practice.

Providing a critical compendium of the main tenets of contemporary Indonesian law since the fall of Soeharto in 1998, this landmark volume traces the development of key legal institutions and charts how they have fared during the last five years, investigating key judicial decisions and identifying essential reforms.Based on original research by experts in the field, including prominent Indonesian scholars and lawyers, the handbook offers detailed analysis of issues linked to the c...

Events are unfolding at a breakneck pace in the Old Kingdom!Laugh as your favourite characters spit in the face of danger ... then run for the hills.Admire the verbal jousting and witty wordplay ... or is it the other way round?Gasp as kings and queens lose their heads.'Enjoy' the groanworthy puns and suffer the slings and arrows of poorly-trained archers.But wait, there's more ...Prepare to be amazed as you learn exactl...

The book outlines the regulatory environment for disaster prevention and management in broad social, economic and political context. The first half of the book focuses mainly on Japan, especially the ‘3-11’ events: the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tohoku area on 11 March 2011 and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant radiation leaks. The second half focuses on the USA (the only other Asia-Pacific country to have experienced a serious nuclear emergency), Indonesia, China, ...