Territorial Change and Conflict in Indonesia: Confronting the Fear of Secession

This book focuses on Indonesia and investigates why competition between various identity-affiliated groups to claim a new province increases conflict severity. It includes a quantitative study, along with complementary case studies of provinces in Indonesia, which provide evidence that group fragmentation plays a role in determining conflict during a new province’s struggle.

Against the background of the Indonesian government’s territorial autonomy (TA) strategy, regional proliferation, or p...