(Un) Civil Society and Political Change in Indonesia provides critical analysis of Indonesia s civil society and its impact on the country s democratization efforts that does not only take the classical, pro-democratic actors of civil society into account but also portrays uncivil groups and their growing influence on political processes.

Beittinger-Lee offers a revised categorization of civil society, including a model to define the sphere of uncivil society more closely and to identify several subcategories of uncivil society. This is the first book to portrays various uncivil groups...