Jennifer Ho, ed. <i>Global Anti-Asian Racism</i>

Furthermore, Golkar did win disproportionately at the polls in rural areas, including in the villages that the government electrified.But did Golkar experience losses-or at least narrower wins-in villages where electrification was forgone?It may be that this level of fine-grained data is not available, but if it were, it would further strengthen the argument of the electricityelection link.A mark of any good scholarship is its ability to change how we see the world, and by that measure Electrifying Indonesia succeeds wonderfully.Whereas Anderson encouraged us to view the light bulb as a metaphor for power, Mohsin shows us how political and social power came to be intertwined with electricity.Finally, it is worth noting that while Mohsin's study is focused primarily on the past, it also hints at the present.In one interview, a former PLN employee recalls the "aura" of rural electrification and how that aura disappeared "after the Orba" (New Order government).But the interviewee quickly adds "Although it seems to start again" and cites an electrification ceremony in Bali in 2012, during the Yudhoyono presidency (p.62).Techno-patrimonialism, it seems, may still be alive and well.