Religion and Political Conflict in Southern Thailand-Northern Malaysia Alexander Hortsmann (Muenster University Germany) My paper draws on the recent clashes between the Thai military, the Thai police, the local mafia, and militant Islamic organizations in Southern Thailand. Taking a longue dureé perspective, the paper looks at earlier clashes as well. The war on drugs as...Read More

Cross-Border Movements and Rural/Urban Migration: A Moral Geography of the Kelabit Community Matthew Amster (Department of Sociology and Anthropology Gettysburg College USA) This paper examines the nature of the relationships that emerges between the Kelabit, an indigenous group of Sarawak, Malaysia, and their neighbours on the other side of the international frontier in Kalimantan, Indonesia....Read More

Indigenous Peoples in the Border Areas of Indonesia Herry Yogaswara (P2K-LIPI, Jakarta) This paper will described several issues related to existence of indigenous peoples (masyarakat adat) in some borderlands in Indonesia, such as West Papua, West Kalimantan and East Kalimantan. The central issues on indigenous peoples are how their relation with the state, in term...Read More

Community Development of People in the Border Areas Between Indonesia and Democratic Republic of Timor Leste Johanis Haba (Research Center for Society and Culture, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta) Since the failure of pro independence group to sustain former East Timor Province to be part of the Republic Indonesia in 1999, and the inclusion of...Read More

Forest as a Cultural Resource to Function as a School of Democracy: Challenges for Collaborative Forest Governance in West Kutai District of East Kalimantan Makoto Inoue (University of Tokyo) In West Kutai District, a working group for district forest management (hereinafter KK-PKD) was established in 2000 as an advisory body when the first governor was...Read More