The book contains essays on current issues in Social and Political Sciences, such as the issues of governance and social order; social development and community development; global challenges and inequality; civil society and social movement; IT-based community and social transformation; poverty alleviation and corporate social responsibility; and gender issues. Asia and the Pacifi c are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of social and political development. Therefore, this book covers areas that have been traditionally known as the social and political areas such as communication studies, political studies, governance studies, criminology, sociology, social welfare, anthropology and international relations.

The book contains essays on current issues in Social and Political Sciences, such as the issues of governance and social order; social development and community development; global challenges and inequality; civil society and social movement; IT-based community and social transformation; poverty alleviation and corporate social responsibility; and gender issues. Asia and the Pacifi c are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of social and political development. Therefore, this book covers areas that have been traditionally known as the social and political areas such as communication studies, political studies, governance studies, criminology, sociology, social welfare, anthropology and international relations.

In this book, Rochman Achwan illuminates the 'great transformation' of textile business networks that has been occurring in one of Indonesia's fast-growing, medium-sized urban areas for five decades (1960s-2000s). Guided by conceptual devices of New Economic Sociology and working in the tradition of Burawoyan sociology, it uncovers how the structures of multi-ethnic business networks have changed, adapted, and even ruptured as a consequence of textile policies adopted by successive, and very different, Indonesian political systems across a half century. The book argues that hybridisation of local context of business networks and external institutional rules should be the norm for the formulation of public policy in Indonesia's textile industry. Such hybridisation is also important for the advancement of economic sociology in Indonesia.