The Entangled State: Sorcery, State Control, and Violence in Indonesia (Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series)

This book studies the way state officials interacted with local residents of an Indonesian
village with regard to problems created by sorcery. Local residents who wished to be rid of alleged sorcerers, sometimes killed them. This presented a conundrum for sympathetic state officials, who were constrained by the rule of law. Prevailing models of state-society interaction in Indonesia proved inadequate to describe the response to this conundrum, and Herriman's study outlines a different model.