This important resource provides detailed coverage of the growing significance of adat in Indonesian politics. It identifies its origins, the historical factors that have conditioned it and the reasons behind its recent blossoming.

1. Radical Conservatism: The Protean Politics of Adat 2. Colonial Dilemma: Van Vollenhoven and the Struggle between Adat Law and Western Law in Indonesia 3. Custom, That is Before All Law 4. Custom and Koperasi: The Cooperative Ideal in Indonesia 5. The Romance of Adat in the Indonesia Political Imagination 6. Land, Custom and the State in Post-Suharto Indonesia 7. Return of the Sultans: Local Community and the Rejection of Modernity after Suharto 8. Adat in Balinese Discourse: Locating Citizenship and the Common Weal 9. The Many Roles of Adat in West Sumatra 10. Culture and Rights in Ethnic Violence 11. Adat Revivalism in Western Flores 12. From Bumi Putera to Masyarakat Adat: A Long and Confusing Journey 13. From Customary Law to Indigenous Sovereignty: Reconceptualising Adat in Contemporary Indonesia 14. The Masyarakat Adat Movement in Indonesia: A Critical Insider's View 15. Adat in Central Sulawesi: Contemporary Deployments