Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy

<p>The Internet in Indonesia’s New Democracy is a detailed study of legal economic political and cultural practices surrounding the provision and consumption of the Internet in Indonesia at the turn of the twenty-first century. Hill and Sen detail the emergence of the Internet into Indonesia in the mid-1990s and cover its growth through the dramatic economic and political crises of 1997 and the subsequent transition to democracy.</p><p>Conceptually the Internet is seen as a global phenomenon with global implications however this book develops a way of thinking about the Internet within the limits of geo-political categories of nations and provinces. The political turmoil in Indonesia provides a unique context in which to understand the specific local and national consequences of a global universal technology.</p>