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Assoc Prof Anton Lucas

BAgEc (New England) MA (Hawaii), PhD (ANU)

 

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61 8 8201 2243

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61 8 8201 5111

Email

Anton.Lucas@flinders.edu.au

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School of Political and International Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
ADELAIDE SA 5001

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Room 388 Social Sciences South

Appointed to Flinders in 1981. Major areas of teaching and research are in Indonesian studies, with research interests in modern Indonesian history; environment and development in Asia; land tenure, livelihood and the law in Indonesia; community environment and regional autonomy in reform era Indonesia.

Recent publications

One Soul One Struggle: Peristiwa Tiga Daerah, Yogyakarta, Resist Press, revised edition, 2004.

(with Carol Warren)(2003) ‘The State, the People and their Mediators: the Struggle over Agrarian Reform in post-New Order Indonesia’, Indonesia, 76, October, pp. 87-126.

(2003) ‘Reformasi Lokal di Jawa Pasisir: Kasus Jatuhnya Seorang Walikota di Tegal’ [Local reform on Java’s northcoast: the downfall of the Mayor of Tegal] in Jim Schiller (ed.) Jalan Terjal Reformasi Lokal: Dinamika Politik di Indonesia [The Steep Road to Lokal Reformasi: the Dynamics of Politics in Indonesia], Yogyakarta, Program Pascasarjana Politik Lokal dan Otonomi Daerah, Program Studi Ilmu Politik, Universitas Gadjah Mada, 2003, pp. 161-197.

(2003) ‘Reformasi Lokal di Jawa Pasisir: Kasus Jatuhnya Seorang Walikota di Tegal’ [Local reform on Java’s northcoast: the downfall of the Mayor of Tegal] in Jim Schiller (ed.) Jalan Terjal Reformasi Lokal: Dinamika Politik di Indonesia [The Steep Road to Lokal Reformasi: the Dynamics of Politics in Indonesia], Yogyakarta, Program Pascasarjana Politik Lokal dan Otonomi Daerah, Program Studi Ilmu Politik, Universitas Gadjah Mada, 2003, pp. 161-197.

(with Dianto Bachriadi) (2002), ‘Hutan Milik Siapa? Upaya-upaya mewujudkan Forestry Land Reform di Kabupaten Wonosobo, Jawa Tengah’ [Who owns the forest? Forestry landreform in the District of Wonosobo, Central Java], in Anu Lounela and R..Yando Zakaria (eds.), Berebut Tanah: Beberapa Kajian Berperspektif Kampus dan Kampung [Seizing the Land: Some Investigations from the Campus and the Kampung] , Yogyakarta, Insist Press. pp. 79-158.

(with Dianto Bachriadi) (2001), Merampas Tanah Rakyat: Kasus Tapos dan Cimacan [Seizing the People’s Land: Tapos and Cimacan Case Studies] Jakarta, KPG [Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia].

(with Arief Djati) (2000) The Dog Is Dead Throw It In the River: Environmental Politics and Water Pollution in Indonesia, Melbourne, Monash Asia Institute, Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No 51.

Research

  • Land tenure, policy and the law in Indonesian
  • Modern Indonesian social and political history
  • Indonesian oral history
  • Environment and development issues in Indonesia