No Concessions: The Life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian Human Rights Lawyer

Daniel S Lev; Benedict Anderson
University of Washington Press
 9780295996103
0-295-99610-2

The compelling personal story of human rights lawyer Yap Thiam Hien (1913-1989) brings decades of modern Indonesian history to life. No Concessions is a penetrating analysis of the trajectory of the Chinese.

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minority in Indonesia over close to a century and the remarkable making of a civic leader. Without abandoning his ethnic roots, Yap transcended them by becoming a courageous legal defender of civil and human rights of all oppressed Indonesians, including former communists and radical Muslims.