ABSTRACT
Territory still matters. Amidst all the strong assertions regarding the impact about globalization, the end of the nation-state, and its increasingly porous boundaries, we tend to forget that institutions still depend on territory, and people still have strong feelings about the places where they live. The nature of territory may be changing, as it always has, and the Indonesian experience shows us how complex these shifting forces can be. In Indonesia, the national state faced pressures of territorial fragmentation after economic and political turmoil, but emerged mostly unscathed. It has been territorial change at the subnational level that has come fast and furious.
