This book consist of critical junctures, nationalism, and ethnic violence, the national model and its institutional history, exclusion, marginality, and the nation, Islam and nation: the Muslim-Christian dimension, the escalation of religious conflict, conflict in Maluku, late integration into the nation: east Timor, Aceh's ethnonationalist conflict, and autonomy as a solution to ethnic conflict it was within the context of these challenges that the very definition of the Indonesian nation and what it meant to be Indonesian came under scrutiny. The book sheds light on the roots of religious and ethnic conflict at a turning point in Indonesia's history