Acknowledgments

Many people contributed to this book and to the conference in honour of Harold Crouch that preceded it. In expressing our thanks to all those who helped to make both book and conference a success, we are thus also acknowledging the esteem and affection with which Harold Crouch is regarded by a wide circle of Indonesia specialists.

In organising the conference, which was held at The Australian National University in November 2005, we received invaluable assistance from the University’s Department of Political and Social Change and particularly its head, Professor Ben Kerkvliet, as well as the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Beverley Fraser at the Department of Political and Social Change, as well as many other individuals, helped to organise the conference. We especially thank those colleagues and friends of Harold Crouch who presented papers at the conference, many of whom travelled long distances at their own expense to attend, and most of whom subsequently revised their papers for inclusion in this book. We thank them for their responsiveness and patience during a lengthy editorial and publication process. Several individuals who presented papers at the conference, notably, Andrew MacIntyre, David Bourchier, Simon Philpott and Richard Robison, were not able to contribute book chapters, but we appreciate their participation.

Our greatest thanks are reserved for Allison Ley, a member of staff of the Department of Political and Social Change, and herself a long-time colleague of Harold Crouch. She has done an outstanding job copy-editing the book and coordinating its preparation. We have relied heavily on Allison during the publication process and her good judgement, sense of humour and patience have made working with her a pleasure. Most importantly, without her professionalism and persistence we would not have been able to produce this book and we are very grateful to her for all her hard work.

Finally, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to Craig Reynolds and editorial staff at the ANU E-Press for their invaluable support and assistance, and also to the two anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments on the draft manuscript.

Edward Aspinall and Greg Fealy