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Based on extensive ethnographic research, Religioscapes in Muslim Indonesia examines three major Islamic practices found in Indonesia through exemplary case studies. It considers the historical and contemporary contexts which frame these practices, it traces their networks and connections and the ways people relate to them in their daily lives. The first case study provides a deep historical grounding in the mystic Islam found in Yogyakarta. The second case study explores the mixture of local and Hadhrami influences in the Islamic practice of South Sumatra, while the third case study examines an ‘imported’ form of reform Islam in an area of recent settlement. The analysis shows that Islam in Indonesia is pluriform, and that it is influenced by translocal transfers of ideas, practices, texts as well as embedment in local cultural contexts. Islam’s entanglement as a global religion with local sets of practices can be opened up by the concept of the religioscape. The analysis further illustrates that different variants of local Islam, as opposed to the idea of a universal Islam, have not lost their significance in Indonesia. This means that the plural and moderate Islam prevalent in Indonesia is not on the decline, and that rather than Islamization, a piousization can be observed to be taking place.

Indonesian Contemporary Art is an important feature of Indonesian identity and culture. Both well known and young unknown artists and their activities in the local and national art scene form a great part of contemporary art in Indonesia. The book focuses on the art and culture metropolis Yogyakarta where art and culture belong to everyday life. To obtain a deeper understanding about the dynamic of the current development and situation of contemporary Indonesian art, a period of around one year has been used for research in Yogyakarta. The result is this book that will be of interest to both art and Southeast Asian specialists and people interested in obtaining a better understanding of Indonesian art and culture in general. This book takes the reader on a colourful journey full of personal stories of artists, artworks and interesting exhibitions. Through personal diary records of art events by the author, the reader will feel like being on the (art) scene in Yogyakarta. Personal accounts by Indonesian artists will make the reader feel as if they are actually meeting them. “One Year on the Scene: Contemporary Art in Indonesia” invites the reader to become part of Indonesian contemporary art for the length of the book and aims to bring contemporary Indonesian art to the world.