Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies
Vol. 45 No. 2, August 2009
CONTENTS
In this issue: notes from the editor Survey article Mudrajad Kuncoro, Tri Widodo and Ross H. McLeod Survey of recent developments Economic legislation series Simon Butt ‘Unlawfulness’ and corruption under Indonesian law Other articles Christian von Luebke The political economy of local governance: findings from an Indonesian field study Mark Turner, Amir Imbaruddin and Wahyu Sutiyono Human resource management: the forgotten dimension of decentralisation in Indonesia In memoriam Thee Kian Wie Robert Charles Rice (1939–2009) Acknowledgment of referees Abstracts of doctoral theses on the Indonesian economy Book reviews (see over) Glossary 251 255 257 263 273 179 151 149
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Book reviews
Thee Kian Wie J. Thomas Lindblad (2008) Bridges to New Business: The Economic Decolonization of Indonesia Budy P. Resosudarmo Michael S. Hamilton (2005) Mining Environmental Policy: Comparing Indonesia and the USA Randy Stringer Arsenio M. Balisacan and Nobuhiko Fuwa (eds) (2007) Reasserting the Rural Development Agenda: Lessons Learned and Emerging Challenges in Asia Archanun Kohpaiboon Ikuo Kuroiwa and Toh Mun Heng (eds) (2008) Production Networks and Industrial Clusters: Integrating Economies in Southeast Asia Stephen Sherlock Patrick Ziegenhain (2008) The Indonesian Parliament and Democratization 263
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