Pop Cultures in Indonesia: a New Asian Politics of Pleasure and Identity

这项研究针对的是国家研究重点之一(目标4“保护澳大利亚”)，通过更好地“了解我们的地区和世界”，并提升澳大利亚的“软实力”。印度尼西亚最近的变化使我们对那个社会的许多了解都过时了。这项研究将为迫切振兴印度尼西亚和文化研究作出重大贡献。它有望提高我们关于世界上最大的穆斯林人口国家和澳大利亚邻国的公开辩论的质量，因为它将认真和早就应该关注当代印度尼西亚最光明的一面，这些方面占据了当地约1亿普通人的头脑。

The study addresses one of National Research Priorities (Goal 4 'Safeguarding Australia'), by better 'understanding our region and the world', and boosting Australia's 'soft power'. Recent changes in Indonesia render much of our knowledge about that society outdated. The study will deliver a significant contribution to the urgent revitalisation of Indonesian and cultural studies. It will hopefully elevate the quality of our public debate about the world's largest Muslim populated country and Australia's neighbour, by paying serious and overdue attention to the brightest sides of contemporary Indonesia that have occupied the minds of one hundred millions or so ordinary people there.