Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem Anthony Reid (Singapore and Seattle: Singapore University Press and University of Washington Press, 2006)
For years the isolation of Aceh from the outside world has been detectable in the scarcity of academic studies on the region. The volume put together by Anthony Reid is a welcome effort to fill in some of that empty space of Aceh studies and, hopefully, its publication marks the beginning of a new era in this respect. The collection of articles is based on papers presented in a conference at the National University of Singapore's Asia Research Institute in 2004. Fourteen researchers have provided their insights ...