This volume is the product of an extended and intensive process of collaboration in which many individuals participated. It has its genesis in a panel
at the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (Euroseas) conference in Naples, Italy, on 12-15 September 2007. Several of the papers in that
panel were published in a special edition of South East Asia Research in 2008
(Volume 16, Number 2). A second workshop on the State and Illegality in
Indonesia brought together some of the Naples authors with a considerably
enlarged group of researchers a year later. It was hosted by the Australian
National University in Canberra on 22-24 September 2008. Participants presented and debated their draft chapters. We would like to thank the Australia
Netherlands Research Collaboration (ANRC) for generously funding this
workshop