Siegel, James T.

James T. Siegel is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University and author of numerous books, including Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City and Fetish, Recognition, Revolution. In A New Criminal Type in Jakarta, James T. Siegel studies the dependence of Indonesia??'s post-1965 government on the ubiquitous presence of what he calls criminality, an ensemble of imagined forces within its society that is poised to tear it apart. Siegel, a foremost authority on Indonesia, interprets Suharto??'s New Order???in powerful contrast to Sukarno??'s Old