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PEOPLE CAUGHT BETWEEN CONCESSIONS: The Legal Politics of Mining Permits for Religious Organizations
Umat Terjepit Konsesi: Politik Hukum Izin Tambang Ormas Keagamaan examines the political and business interests behind the granting of mining concessions to companies owned by religious organizations. Through legal analysis and cases involving affected residents, the book questions promises of prosperity for religious communities and highlights the risks of environmental damage, agrarian conflict, and weakening organizational independence. It invites readers to reassess the responsibilities of the state and religious organizations to protect communities and manage...
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Fenced-Off Land, Locked-Up Water: The Tangled Web of Energy Projects and the Seizure of Living Space in East Java
This book documents conflicts over control of the sources of livelihood in several parts of East Java through three main sections. The first section highlights agrarian inequality in Ijen, Bondowoso, where plantation workers and farmers have lived for generations without secure land rights and face conflicts with state-owned plantations and the expansion of geothermal projects. The second section discusses the water crisis in Batu City. Water, which should belong to everyone, has become a commodity controlled by a handful of pe
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CHINA-INDONESIA RELATIONS: 2025 Year in Review and 2026 Outlook
Book Description This book examines China–Indonesia relations in 2025, marking 75 years of diplomatic ties amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty. Cooperation across trade, investment, infrastructure, technology—including artificial intelligence (AI)—and defense expanded, even as Indonesia faced challenges in governance and strategic positioning. Indonesia joining BRICS and US tariffs set the tone for the year, shaping expectations around Global South engagement, trade realignment, and access
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THE STATE IN COMMAND MODE: Legal Autocracy and Environmental Emergency
This book was born out of concern about the direction of state governance, which is moving ever further from the spirit of constitutionalism, democracy, and ecological justice. In recent years, state power has shown a tendency to operate in command mode: centralized, narrowing civic space, dominated by state apparatuses in the public and private sectors, rapid, minimally participatory, and reliant on legal instruments for legitimacy. This phenomenon does not always take the form of visible violations of the law
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