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Subtitle: the life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian human rights lawyer
By: Daniel S. Lev ; introduction by Benedict Anderson ; and contributions by Arlene O. Lev ... [et al.].
Contributors: Lev, Arlene O. (Arlene Offenhender)
Series: Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies
Publisher: University of Washington Press; Brand: University of Washington Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780295991146
Subjects: Human rights; Politics and government; Lawyers; Biography; Chinese
Description: A biography of human rights lawyer Yap Thiam Hien (1913-1989) that focuses on the country's contemporary political turmoil and struggle for human rights, the workings of Indonesia's legal system, and the history of the Chinese community there.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Aceh; title: Java; title: Batavia; title: From Sukabumi to Leiden; title: Jakarta; title: Hazardous waters; title: At sea in peranakan politics; title: The Baperki wars; title: Out of the ethnic cage; title: Into New Order Indonesia; title: Early New Order battlefields; title: Reform frontiers; title: Law as politics : a sidetrip to detention; title: Epilogue : a steady course / Arlene O. Lev; title: Postscript : New Order landmark cases / Sebastiaan Pompe and Ibrahim Assegaf; title: Appendix : defense summation in Asep Suryaman trial / Yap Thiam Hien.