This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country. It provides a full account of the key trends of recent years, focusing largely, but not exclusively, on the period since the collapse of the authoritarian Suharto regime, a time of great change in Indonesian society more generally. It explains how one of the most significant results of the deepening industrialization in Southeast Asia since the 1980s has been the expansion of consumption and new forms of media, and that Indonesia is a prime example of this development. It goes on to show that although the Asian economic crisis in 1997 had immediate and negative impacts on incumbent governments, as well as the socioeconomic life for most people in the region, at the same time popular cultures have been dramatically reinvigorated as never before. It includes analysis of important themes in contemporary popular culture in Indonesia, including political activism and citizenship, gender, class, age and ethnicity. Throughout, it shows how the multilayered, complex and contradictory processes of identity formation in Indonesia are inextricably linked to popular culture. This important book, bringing material on Indonesia's media and popular culture to an English readership for the first time, is a significant addition to the literature on Asian popular culture, and will be of interest to anyone who is interested in new developments in media and popular culture in Indonesia and Asia.