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Security, Democracy, and Society in Bali

Trouble with Protection

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Editors:
  1. Andrew Vandenberg

    1. Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

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  2. Nazrina Zuryani

    1. Faculty of Social and Political Science, Udayana University, Denpasar, Indonesia

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  • Focuses on how diverse developments are reflected in the rise of the security groups in Bali

  • Emulates the approach taken by Nordholt (2007) in his analysis of cultural, political and social developments in Bali

  • Covers a wide range of political and social issues that have arisen in Indonesia since the end of the Suharto regime

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Trouble with Protection

    • Andrew Vandenberg
    Pages 1-22

  3. The People Answer Back: A Case Study in the Balinese Asserting Their Opinion About the Ormas

    • Kadek Dwita Apriani, Translated by Elisha Montgomery
    Pages 23-49

  4. The 2015 Billboards Campaign: What Was That All About?

    • Ni Nyoman Dewi Pascarani, Translated by Miriam Ramsay
    Pages 51-74

  5. The Historical Construction of Bali’s Security Groups

    • Andrew Vandenberg
    Pages 75-110

  6. “A Combination of Extortion and Civic Duty”: A Comparative Criminological Perspective on Informal Security Organisations in Bali

    • Richard Evans
    Pages 111-131

  7. Paradise Fabricated: Networking of Local Strongmen in Bali

    • Nazrina Zuryani
    Pages 133-154

  8. The Transitional Democracy Trap: Democracy, Complexity, and Local Oligarchy in Bali

    • Muhammad Ali Azhar, Translated by Abigail Robinson
    Pages 155-175

  9. The Internal Governance of Civil Militia

    • Tedi Erviantono, Translated by Augustina Wayansari
    Pages 177-208

  10. Power and the Security Organisations in Bali: Drug Gangsters, Neighbourhood Watch Groups, or What?

    • Andrew Vandenberg, I Gusti Agung Oka Mahangganga
    Pages 209-232

  11. Gender Dualism as Degendering Cosmic Multicultural Tolerance of Wargas: Community Security Practices in North Bali

    • Nazrina Zuryani, Tedi Erviantono, Translated by Hannah Mansfield
    Pages 233-252

  12. Digital Activism in Bali: The ForBALI Movement

    • Fiona Suwana
    Pages 253-284

  13. Elected and Non-elected Representative Claim-Makers in Indonesia

    • Michael Hatherell
    Pages 285-303

  14. Contesting Indonesia’s Democratic Transition: Laskar Jihad, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and Civil Society

    • Greg Barton
    Pages 305-331

  15. Correction to: The Transitional Democracy Trap: Democracy, Complexity, and Local Oligarchy in Bali

    • Muhammad Ali Azhar, Translated by Abigail Robinson
    Pages C1-C1

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 333-344
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About this book

This book focuses on how diverse developments are reflected in the rise of the security groups in Bali, Indonesia. Bali’s security groups pose many interesting questions. Why did they put up so many huge posters around the streets of southern Bali promoting themselves? Are their claims to represent the community plausible or are they “gangs”? How are they shaped by Indonesia’s violent past? How does Hinduism affect their gender politics? Do they promote illiberal populism or ethnic and religious tolerance? Does their central role in money politics prevent local democratization?

Rather than write bottom-up history or bring the state back in, this collection as a whole draws on the ideas that circulate among leaders. These circulating ideas construct contemporary politics around both reinterpretations of old practices and responses to problems around tourism, gender, populism, religion, and democracy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

    Andrew Vandenberg

  • Faculty of Social and Political Science, Udayana University, Denpasar, Indonesia

    Nazrina Zuryani

About the editors

Andrew Vandenberg is a senior lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies at Deakin University, Australia. He researches unionism, social movements, parties, and democratisation in Sweden, Australia, and Indonesia. His books include Democracy and Citizenship in a Global Era (Macmillan 2000), and Education Policy and the Australian Education Union: Resisting Social Neoliberalism and Auditing Technology (2018).


Nazrina Zuryani is an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Social and Political Science, Udayana University. She researches parties, local government and local administration. Her publications include Akuntabilitas Partai Politik (Accountability and Party Politics) (2015) and Penduduk dan Pajak (Population and Tax) (2015), written with nationally competitive funding, a team of co-authors, and close collaboration with leaders of the local public service and the local political parties.


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