@article{ref1,
title="Explaining Anti-Chinese Riots in Late 20th Century Indonesia",
journal="World development",
year="2011",
author="Panggabean, Samsu Rizal and Smith, Benjamin",
volume="39",
number="2",
pages="231-242",
abstract="SummaryIn this essay we ask why anti-Chinese riots took place in some Indonesian cities but not in others during the upheaval of May 1998. Employing process-tracing within a sub-national comparison of four cities, we argue that anti-Chinese riots in May 1998 were a frame-shifting strategy employed by security forces to distract public attention from their failure to control anti-government student demonstrations. Anti-Chinese rioting took place only where the local government and the security forces failed to limit the repertoires and spatial reach of protests used by prior student demonstrators.<p />",
language="",
issn="0305-750X",
doi="10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.036",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.036"
}