ABSTRACT
In the beginning of this book, I posed the question: How is the integration of an isolated, traditional Balinese village into the Indonesian nation-state to be explained, if not by the action of a hegemonic, omnipotent state? Thinking of the need of nation-states to continually re-create themselves through their member parts, I asked: How can the view from Brassika help us to understand the longevity of the New Order? In the body of the book, multiple answers have been implied and supplied.
