DEMOCRACY, CORRUPTION AND THE POLITICS OF SPIRITS IN CONTEMPORARY INDONESIA

First Edition. Publisher's original pictoral boards with no dustwrapper, as issued. A fine copy with some light rubbing to the boards and a little bumping to the panel corners. Previous owners inscription to the front free endpaper, but otherwise the contents are clean throughout and the binding, tight and square.

Using biographical accounts of of political entrepreneurs 'the book seeks to provide a portrait of Indonesia's contradictory democracy, contending that the contradictions that haunt democracy in Indonesia also infect democracy globally. Exploring the intimate ways in which the world of politics and the world of spirits are entangled, it argues that Indonesia's seemingly peculiar problems with democracy and spirits in fact reflect a set of contradictions within democracy itself.' - publisher's blurb.