TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Explaining Anti-Chinese Riots in Late 20th Century Indonesia
JO  - World development
A1  - Panggabean, Samsu Rizal
A1  - Smith, Benjamin
SP  - 231
EP  - 242
VL  - 39
IS  - 2
N2  - Summary In 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 /> 
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SN  - 0305-750X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.036
ID  - ref1
ER  -