Local and national: Keroyokan mobbing in Indonesia

Journal of East Asian Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 473-504

  Welsh, Briget ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bali; Bengkulu; Decentralization; Ethnography; Indonesia; Java; Kalimantan; Keroyokan; Mobbing; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049145726     PISSN: 15982408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1598240800006512     Document Type: Article

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