ABSTRACT
The fall of Suharto was marked on the one hand by euphoria about democratic decentralisation of government and society and on the other by separatist and intercommunal violence that tested the parameters of the national boundary. In earlier chapters we have examined the new communication technology’s articulations into the new democratic processes and institutions in Indonesia, and its part in the birth of the new nation of East Timor. In this chapter we examine the Internet in the context of the longest continuing communal conflict after the fall of Suharto, in an effort to identify further the links between politics in cyberspace and the politics of the street.
