Johan A. Lindquist Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009, 193pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-3201-8 (hard cover) ISBN 978-0-8248-3315-2 (paperback) The Indonesian island of Batam, just a short boat ride from Singapore, used to be largely deserted. Yet in recent years it has transformed from a space of thick jungle to a sprawling boom town, home to a major industrial park (Batamindo) and a throbbing economy of sex, drugs, and vice tourism catering predominantly to working-class Singaporean men.