Renegotiating boundaries : local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia /
Renegotiating boundaries : local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia /
edited by Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 238 .
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 238. KITLV Press Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2012, ISBN: 9789004248687. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-540) and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / M. Isa Sulaiman (1951-2004) / Elite competition in Central Sulawesi / New colonizers?: Identity, representation and government in the post-New Order Mentawai Archipelago / Campaigning for a new district in West Sumba / Many governors, no province: The struggle for a province in the Luwu-Tana Toraja area in South Sulawesi / Sold down the river: Renegotiating public power over nature in Central Kalimantan / Deregulation of the tin trade and creation of a local Shadow State: A Bangka case study / ‘Shadow State’?: Business and politics in the province of Banten / The rise and fall of governor Puteh / The security forces and regional violence in Poso / Criminality and the political economy of security in Lombok / Preserving the peace in post-New Order Minahasa / Civil society in Jepara: Fractious but inclusive / Ethnic identity politics in West Kalimantan / Family rule in Wajo, South Sulawesi / Bali: An open fortress / Ambivalent identities: Decentralization and Minangkabau political communities / Contesting boundaries in the Riau Archipelago / Erring decentralization and elite politics in Papua / Glossary / Abbreviations and acronyms / About the authors / Bibliography / Index / Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Gerry van Klinken -- Lorraine volume Aragon -- Myrna Eindhoven -- Jacqueline Vel -- Dik Roth -- John F Mccarthy -- Erwiza Erman -- Syarif Hidayat -- M. Isa Sulaiman and Gerry van Klinken -- Arianto Sangaji -- John M. Macdougall -- David Henley , Maria J.C. Schouten and Alex J. Ulaen -- Jim Schiller -- Taufiq Tanasaldy -- Andi Faisal Bakti -- Henk Schulte Nordholt -- Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann -- Carole Faucher -- Jaap Timmer -- Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken.
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For decades almost the only social scientists who visited Indonesia’s provinces were anthropologists. Anybody interested in politics or economics spent most of their time in Jakarta, where the action was. Our view of the world’s fourth largest country threatened to become simplistic, lacking that essential graininess. Then, in 1998, Indonesia was plunged into a crisis that could not be understood with simplistic tools. After 32 years of enforced stability, the New Order was at an end. Things began to happen in the provinces that no one was prepared for. Democratization was one, decentralization another. Ethnic and religious identities emerged that had lain buried under the blanket of the New Order’s modernizing ideology. Unfamiliar, sometimes violent forms of political competition and of rentseeking came to light. Decentralization was often connected with the neo-liberal desire to reduce state powers and make room for free trade and democracy. To what extent were the goals of good governance and a stronger civil society achieved? How much of the process was ‘captured’ by regional elites to increase their own powers? Amidst the new identity politics, what has happened to citizenship? These are among the central questions addressed in this book. This volume is the result of a two-year research project at KITLV. It brings together an international group of 24 scholars – mainly from Indonesia and the Netherlands but also from the United States, Australia, Germany, Canada and Portugal. Full text (Open Access)
English.
9789004260436
10.1163/9789004260436 DOI
Since 1997
Local government--Indonesia.
Ethnicity--Indonesia.
Civil society.
Economic history.
Ethnicity.
Local government.
Politics and government.
Indonesia--Politics and government--1998-
Indonesia--Economic conditions--1997-
Indonesia.
JS7193.A2 / R46 2007
320.9598 320.809598 959.804
Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-540) and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / M. Isa Sulaiman (1951-2004) / Elite competition in Central Sulawesi / New colonizers?: Identity, representation and government in the post-New Order Mentawai Archipelago / Campaigning for a new district in West Sumba / Many governors, no province: The struggle for a province in the Luwu-Tana Toraja area in South Sulawesi / Sold down the river: Renegotiating public power over nature in Central Kalimantan / Deregulation of the tin trade and creation of a local Shadow State: A Bangka case study / ‘Shadow State’?: Business and politics in the province of Banten / The rise and fall of governor Puteh / The security forces and regional violence in Poso / Criminality and the political economy of security in Lombok / Preserving the peace in post-New Order Minahasa / Civil society in Jepara: Fractious but inclusive / Ethnic identity politics in West Kalimantan / Family rule in Wajo, South Sulawesi / Bali: An open fortress / Ambivalent identities: Decentralization and Minangkabau political communities / Contesting boundaries in the Riau Archipelago / Erring decentralization and elite politics in Papua / Glossary / Abbreviations and acronyms / About the authors / Bibliography / Index / Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Gerry van Klinken -- Lorraine volume Aragon -- Myrna Eindhoven -- Jacqueline Vel -- Dik Roth -- John F Mccarthy -- Erwiza Erman -- Syarif Hidayat -- M. Isa Sulaiman and Gerry van Klinken -- Arianto Sangaji -- John M. Macdougall -- David Henley , Maria J.C. Schouten and Alex J. Ulaen -- Jim Schiller -- Taufiq Tanasaldy -- Andi Faisal Bakti -- Henk Schulte Nordholt -- Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann -- Carole Faucher -- Jaap Timmer -- Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
For decades almost the only social scientists who visited Indonesia’s provinces were anthropologists. Anybody interested in politics or economics spent most of their time in Jakarta, where the action was. Our view of the world’s fourth largest country threatened to become simplistic, lacking that essential graininess. Then, in 1998, Indonesia was plunged into a crisis that could not be understood with simplistic tools. After 32 years of enforced stability, the New Order was at an end. Things began to happen in the provinces that no one was prepared for. Democratization was one, decentralization another. Ethnic and religious identities emerged that had lain buried under the blanket of the New Order’s modernizing ideology. Unfamiliar, sometimes violent forms of political competition and of rentseeking came to light. Decentralization was often connected with the neo-liberal desire to reduce state powers and make room for free trade and democracy. To what extent were the goals of good governance and a stronger civil society achieved? How much of the process was ‘captured’ by regional elites to increase their own powers? Amidst the new identity politics, what has happened to citizenship? These are among the central questions addressed in this book. This volume is the result of a two-year research project at KITLV. It brings together an international group of 24 scholars – mainly from Indonesia and the Netherlands but also from the United States, Australia, Germany, Canada and Portugal. Full text (Open Access)
English.
9789004260436
10.1163/9789004260436 DOI
Since 1997
Local government--Indonesia.
Ethnicity--Indonesia.
Civil society.
Economic history.
Ethnicity.
Local government.
Politics and government.
Indonesia--Politics and government--1998-
Indonesia--Economic conditions--1997-
Indonesia.
JS7193.A2 / R46 2007
320.9598 320.809598 959.804