ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the boundaries of the body itself, and on the significance of bodies as sites where expatriates' relations with Indonesia are enacted, articulated and negotiated. It suggest that these boundaries become especially important in situations where the body is perceived as an entity in flux, both in a corporeal as well as a conceptual sense. Employing Stoler's arguments in a contemporary context, expatriates' bodily practices can be seen as attempts to maintain, and sometimes transcend, the boundaries between a symbolic West' and Indonesia'. Although their clientele can consist of both Indonesian and expatriate women, some salons offer services specifically tailored to expatriates, and are more obviously designed for Western customers. The choice of name is significant, as it indicates the kind of transformation from the alien into the palatable that he have described in relation to food.
