Dr David Bourchier

Associate Professor

Research Interests

• Human rights, law and the military in Indonesia
• Indonesian history, politics and society
• Southeast Asian politics

David Bourchier's main interest is in the politics of Indonesia and Southeast Asia. He has taught courses on Asian politics and Indonesian language at Flinders University, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Murdoch University. Since 1998 he has been at UWA where he has taught in courses including Contemporary Indonesia , Identity and Politics in Asia and Democratisation in Asia as well as Intermediate, Advanced and Specialist level Indonesian.

David has written on many aspects of Indonesian society and politics, with publications on law, labour, ideology, human rights and the military. Recent publications include "Habibie's Interregnum: Reformasi, Elections, Regionalism and the Struggle for Power" in Chris Manning and Peter van Diermen (eds) Indonesia in Transition: Social Aspects of Reformasi and Crisis (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2000: 15-38); "Conservative Political Ideology In Indonesia: A Fourth Wave?" in Lloyd Grayson and Luke Shannon (eds) Indonesia Today: Challenges of History (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2001); and, together with Hamish McDonald, Desmond Ball, James Dunn, Gerry van Klinken, Douglas Kammen and Richard Tanter, Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military and Violence in East Timor in 1999 (Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No.145, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 2002)
He has also recently completed a major textbook on Indonesian politics, with Vedi Hadiz, titled Indonesian Society and Politics: A Reader (Routledge-Curzon, London and New York, 2003).