Sriro's Desk Reference of Indonesian Law 2008 provides access to the Indonesian legal system in a clear and concise format. Updated annually with the latest rules and regulations through September 2007, this indispensable reference covers over 90 substantive subjects including: Anti-trust - Arbitration - Banking - Business Organizations - Capital Markets - Contracts - Courts and Civil Actions - Criminal - Debtor and Creditor - Documents and Records - Employment and Immigration - Estates and Trusts - Family Law - Finance and Securities - Foreign Investment and Trade - Government and Legal System - Intellectual Property - Marriage and Divorce - Property Ownership - Property Rights - Sales - Taxation. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andrew I. Sriro is an attorney practicing law in Jakarta. Andrew holds licenses from the Indonesian Ministry of Justice and Human Rights and the California State Bar. With a broad practice covering corporate, commercial, finance and international transactions and litigation matters, Andrew has represented major international investors and financial institutions, governments, international aid and philanthropic organizations, media conglomerates, insurance companies, and infrastructure developers and operators in multi-billion dollar transactions. In addition to this book, Andrew has been the Reviser of the Indonesian law chapter of Martindale-Hubbell's International Law Digest since 1998, has written a book on Indonesian arbitration law as well as numerous articles and papers on telecommunications, property, financial security interests, shipping, aviation and other areas of Indonesian and international law. Andrew has served as a post-graduate lecturer at Universitas Gadjah Mada and Universitas Borobudur and regularly delivers lectures to officials at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights and the Supreme Court.

The study of Asia and its plural legal systems is of increasing significance, both within and outside Asia. Lawyers, whether in Australia, America or Europe, or working within an Asian jurisdiction, require a sound knowledge of how the law operates across this fast-growing and diverse region. Law and Legal Institutions of Asia is the first book to offer a comprehensive assessment of eleven key jurisdictions in Asia - China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore and the Philippines. Written by academics and practitioners with particular expertise in their state or territory, each chapter uses a breakthrough approach, facilitating cross-jurisdictional comparisons and giving essential insights into how law functions in different ways across the region and in each of the individual jurisdictions.

The Chinese have a saying about family businesses: the first generation builds the company, the second generation grows the company, and the third generation destroys the company. There are many examples of this growth and decline in many countries, especially in Indonesia where the business conglomerates - mostly owned by ethnic Chinese - are notoriously secretive; their companies' trials and tribulations are known only to a very select group. However, every once in a while, one of the insiders opens the company's doors and allows the general public a chance to see what has really transpired over the generations. Even less frequently are these stories allowed to be published in a book. Family Business is one of those rare books. For the first time, the inside story of one of Indonesia's largest traditional medicine companies is available in the English language. From the tales of the founder's struggles in raising a family and managing a company, to the passing of command to its second and third generations, Family Business is a real insider's account of how in business, everything is personal. Filled with anecdotes and court cases, advertising campaigns and newspaper clippings, Family Business is an Indonesian success story and case study detailing what to do - and more importantly what not to do - in running a family business. It should be required reading for entrepreneurs all over the globe. ABOUT THE AUTHORS ASIH SUMARDONO has worked as a journalist since 1986 - for the BBC, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Most of that time has been spent in Asia, covering uprisings in Thailand and Burma, wars in Cambodia, East Timor and Afghanistan. MARK HANUSZ is the author of the critically acclaimed Kretek: The Culture and Heritage of Indonesia's Clove Cigarettes and co-author of A Cup of Java. He is also the founder of Equinox Publishing.