Does the proliferation of jilbabs (headscarves) in Indonesia since 1998 mean the nation has gone hardline? How did democracy happen in Indonesia, which has the largest population of Muslims in the world, and will it stick? Is the term ‘Muslim feminist’ an oxymoron? Do Muslims even like sex? Julia’s Jihad provides the answer to these questions and much, much more: how the nation struggles to maintain the ‘unity in diversity’ of its 300 ethnic groups; how it practices ‘political ...

What hides under such a trumpeting title? What is today's Bali? Is it so different from yesterday's? Perhaps, but perhaps not too... Bali today actually refers to a method, which has been that of the principal writer, Jean Couteau, and his friend Usadi Wiryatnaya while runnning a daily "English Corner" at the Bali Post, the island's main newspaper, between 1991 and 1994. Everyday an article had to be written on Bali or a Balinese topic. This volume is the first in the series. It deals with ...