Robert W. Hefner:
Challengers of democracy are a minority
August 18, 2010
Indonesia is not a strange country to Robert William Hefner. This American anthropologist has known Indonesia since 1977 when he first came to the country to study the Tengger community of East Java. "My history resembles that of Indonesia. I used to be a country boy who grew up without electricity, without paved roads and I became a city boy working in Malang and Yogya," said Hefner, 58. At the end of the 1990s, towards the end of Suharto's ru
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