Edward Aspinall is a professor of politics at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. He has published extensively on the politics of Indonesia, including on democratisation, ethnic politics, subnational conflict and civil society. He is the author of two books, Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in Indonesia (Stanford University Press, 2005) and Islam and Nation: Separatist Conflict in Aceh, Indonesia (NUS Press & Stanford University Press, 2009). Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia is his tenth edited volume.
Allen Hicken is professor of Political Science, a Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.
Meredith Weiss is professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
