Gerry van Klinken
Gerry van Klinken (1952) is a permanent research fellow at the KITLV. He coordinates the Dutch-Indonesian research program “In Search of Middle Indonesia”, which studies middle classes and youth in provincial towns.
After gaining a MSc in geophysics (Macquarie University, Sydney, 1978), Van Klinken taught physics in universities in Malaysia and Indonesia (1979-91). In 1996 he moved into Asian Studies with a PhD in Indonesian history (Griffith University, Brisbane, 1996). After that he taught and researched in this field at universities in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Yogyakarta (Indonesia), and now Leiden.
Since 1998 he has been a frequent media commentator on Indonesian current affairs in Australia. He was editor of the Australian quarterly magazine Inside Indonesia between 1996 and 2002 and remains on the editorial board. From late 1999 to 2002 he was resident director in Yogyakarta for the Australian Consortium of In-Country Indonesian Studies (Acicis). In 2002-2004 he spent nine months as research advisor to the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR).
Van Klinken’s recent Indonesianist research has been on human rights, ethnicity, post-authoritarian transition, historical memory, and illegality.
Project:
In Search of Middle Indonesia
Contact:
A full list of KITLV publications and their authors can be obtained from our archive of annual reports.
Selected Publications
(Some publications are available online at the Social Science Research Network, http://ssrn.com/author=890930)
(with Joshua Barker, eds), State of authority: state in society in Indonesia , Ithaca, NY: Cornell University SEAP, 2009.
(with Joshua Barker), 'Introduction: state in society in Indonesia', in: Gerry van Klinken and Joshua Barker (eds), State of authority: state in society in Indonesia, Ithaca, pp.1-16. NY: Cornell University SEAP, 2009.
(with Edward Aspinall), 'Building relations: corruption, competition and cooperation in the construction industry', in: Edward Aspinall and Gerry van Klinken (eds), The state and illegality in Indonesia, Leiden: KITLV Press, in press.
'Patronage democracy in provincial Indonesia', in: John Harriss, Kristian Stokke and Olle Törnquist (eds), Rethinking popular representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
‘Etnisch geweld in Ambon, Indonesië: tussen Marx en Eisenstadt', in: Ward Berenschot and Hubert Schijf (ed.), Etnisch geweld: groepsconflict in de schaduw van de staat, Mens en Maatschappij vol.84. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2009.
(with Syarif Hidayat), 'Provincial business and politics', in: Gerry van Klinken and Joshua Barker (eds), State of authority: state in society in Indonesia, pp.149-161. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University SEAP, 2009.
‘Indonesian anti-corruption agenda falters, but perhaps other things matter more’, Austral Policy Forum 09-7A, Policy forum from the Nautilus Institute at RMIT, Australia, 30 March 2009 (http://www.globalcollab.org/Nautilus/australia/apsnet/policy-forum/2009/van-klinken-corruption/); also posted on www.japanfocus.org 12 April 2009.
(with Edward Aspinall) (eds), The state and illegality in Indonesia, Leiden: KITLV Press, in press.
(with Edward Aspinall), 'Introduction: The State and Illegality in Indonesia', in: Edward Aspinall and Gerry van Klinken (eds), The state and illegality in Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press, in press.
(with Joshua Barker), 'Reflections on the state in Indonesia', in: Gerry van Klinken and Joshua Barker (eds), State of authority: state in society in Indonesia, pp17-45. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University SEAP, 2009.
Review of Lex Rieffel and Karaniya Dharmasaputra, 2009, Di balik korupsi yayasan pemerintah [behind the corruption of government foundations], Jakarta: Freedom Institute. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 45-3 (November 2009):.401-2.
‘Decolonization and the making of Middle Indonesia’, Urban Geography [special edition on decolonizing the Indonesian town], 30-8 (2009): 879–897.
PDF-document: URBAN_30n08_879-897-vanKlinken.pdf
Review of Tjalling H. F. Halbertsma, Early Christian remains of Inner Mongolia: discovery, reconstruction and appropriation (Leiden, 2008), Asian Studies Review, 33-2 (2009): 252-3.
Review of Peter Sercombe and Bernard Sellato, (eds.), 2007, Beyond the green myth: Borneo's hunter gatherers in the twenty-first century. Copenhagen: Nias Press. Pacific Affairs, 82-1 (Spring 2009): 167-8.
Review of Gusti Asnan, 2007, Memikir ulang regionalisme: Sumatera Barat tahun 1950-an [Rethinking regionalism: West Sumatra in the 1950s]. Jakarta: KITLV Jakarta [etc]. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI), 165-1 (2009): 160-3.
‘Nationale helden in Indonesië’, pp.216-235 in Rosemarijn Hoefte, Peter Meel and Hans Renders (eds.), Tropenlevens: de (post)koloniale biografie, Amsterdam [etc]: Boom [etc], 2008.
‘The limits of ethnic clientelism in Indonesia’, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs (RIMA), 42-2 (December 2008): 35-65. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1321803
‘Indonesian politics in 2008: the ambiguities of democratic change’, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 44-3 (December 2008): 365-381.
Review of Adrian Vickers, 2005, A history of modern Indonesia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; R. E. Elson, 2008, The idea of Indonesia: a history. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI), 164-2/3 (2008): 325-9.
‘Special issue: the state and illegality in Indonesia - Introduction’, South East Asia Research, 16-2 (July 2008): 157-63.
"Blood, timber, and the state in West Kalimantan, Indonesia", Asia-Pacific Viewpoint 49-1 (April 2008): 35-47 Download draft as pdf http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1127113
Communal violence and democratization in Indonesia; small town wars, London: Routledge, 2007; translated as Perang kota kecil: kekerasan komunal dan demokratisasi di Indonesia, Jakarta: Obor/ KITLV, 2007.
(with Henk Schulte Nordholt,eds), Renegotiating boundaries; local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia, Leiden: KITLV, 2007; translated as Politik Lokal di Indonesia, Jakarta: Obor/ KITLV, 2007.
'The combative "I"; state domination and Indonesian self-writing', Life Writing 4-2 (2007):197-214. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1309410
'Communal conflict and decentralisation in Indonesia', Occasional Papers 7, Brisbane: Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS), July 2007, download as pdf; alternative: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1025846
Review of Mujiburrahman, 2006, 'Feeling threatened; Muslim-Christian relations in Indonesia's New Order'. PhD dissertation, Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 163-2/3 (2007):390-3.
Review of John Roosa, 2006, Pretext for mass murder; the September 30th Movement and Suharto's coup d'etat in Indonesia. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 163-1 (2007):181-5.
'Return of the sultans: the communitarian turn in local politics', pp. 149-69 in James Davidson and David Henley (eds), The revival of tradition in Indonesian politics: the deployment of adat from colonialism to indigenism, London: Routledge, 2007. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1309406
(with David Bourchier), ‘The key suspects’, in: Richard Tanter, Desmond Ball, Gerry van Klinken (eds), Masters of terror: Indonesia's military and violence in East Timor, New York [etc]: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, pp. 113-223.
'Colonizing Borneo: State-building and ethnicity in Central Kalimantan', Indonesia 81 (April 2006): 23-50.
Review of Karel E. M. Bongenaar. 2005. De ontwikkeling van het zelfbesturend landschap in Nederlandsch-Indie: 1855-1942. Zutphen, Netherlands: Walburg Pers. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 162-1 (2006):154-60.
'The Maluku wars: 'Communal contenders' in a failing state', in Charles A. Coppel (ed), Violent conflicts in Indonesia: Analysis, representation, resolution, pp. 129-143. London: Routledge, 2006. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1309404
'Indonesian casualties in East Timor, 1975-1999: Analysis of an official list', Indonesia 80 (October 2005): 109-22.
'New actors, new identities: Post-Suharto ethnic violence in Indonesia', in Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Helene Bouvier, Glenn Smith and Roger Tol (eds), Violent internal conflicts in Asia Pacific: Histories, political economies and policies, pp. 79-100. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia/ LIPI/ Lasema-CNRS/ KITLV-Jakarta, 2005; translated in Konflik Kekerasan Internal: Tinjauan Sejarah, Ekonomi-Politik, dan Kebijakan, Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia/ LIPI/ Lasema-CNRS/ KITLV-Jakarta, 2005. Download as pdf http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1134267
'Dayak ethnogenesis and conservative politics in Indonesia's outer islands', in Henk Schulte Nordholt and Hanneman Samuel (eds), Indonesia in Transition: Rethinking 'Civil Society', 'Region' and 'Crisis', pp. 107-28. Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar, 2004, download as pdf; alternative: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1030241
Minorities, modernity and the emerging nation; Christians in Indonesia, a biographical approach. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2003. Translated as Lima penggerak bangsa yang terlupa, Jakarta [etc]: Obor [etc], in press [2009].
'Decentralisation, violence, and democracy; The colonial roots of ethnic conflict in Indonesia', in: Stanley Adi Prasetyo, A.E. Priyono, and Olle Tornquist (eds), Indonesia's post-Soeharto democracy movement, pp. 81-96. Jakarta: Demos, 2003. Download as pdf http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1134268
'Ethnicity in Indonesia', in: Colin Mackerras (ed.), Ethnicity in Asia, pp. 64-87. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Download as pdf http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1127126
'Indonesia's new ethnic elites', in: Henk Schulte Nordholt and Irwan Abdullah (eds), Indonesia; In search of transition, pp. 67-105. Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar, 2002, download as pdf; alternative: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1127117
'Beyond the crisis; Religion and politics in post-Suharto Indonesia', Interface 4-1 (2001): 33-54.
'The coming crisis in Indonesian area studies', Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 32-2 (2001): 263-68.
'Big states and little independence movements', in: Mark Shelden, Richard Tanter, and Stephen R. Shalom (eds), Bitter flowers, sweet flowers; East Timor, Indonesia and the world community, pp. 209-25. New York [etc]: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
'The battle for history after Suharto', Critical Asian Studies 33-3 (2001): 323-50; shorter version in Mary S. Zurbuchen (ed), Beginning to remember: The past in the Indonesian present, pp.233-258. Singapore: Singapore University Press and Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.
'The Maluku wars; bringing society back', Indonesia 71 (2001): 1-26. Download as pdf
'Richard Wagner and Minahasa's past'', in: Harry A. Poeze and Antoinette Liem (eds), Lasting fascinations; essays on Indonesia and the Southwest Pacific to honour Bob Hering, pp. 187-93. Stein: Kabar Seberang, 1998. [Yayasan Soekarno Monograph Series.]
'Power, symbol and the Catholic mission in Java; the biography of Frans van Lith', Documentatieblad voor de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse zending en overzeese kerken 4-1 (1997): 43-59.
