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Record Nr.

UNINA9910130889103321

Autore

Klinken van, Gerry

Titolo

Renegotiating boundaries : local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia / / edited by Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden - Boston, : Brill, 2007

Leiden : , : KITLV Press, , 2007

ISBN

90-04-26043-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 562 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; ; 238

Altri autori (Persone)

KlinkenGeert Arend van

Disciplina

320.9598

320.809598

959.804

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-540) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Introduction / Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- M. Isa Sulaiman (1951-2004) / Gerry van Klinken -- Elite competition in Central Sulawesi / Lorraine volume Aragon -- New colonizers?: Identity, representation and government in the post-New Order Mentawai Archipelago / Myrna Eindhoven -- Campaigning for a new district in West Sumba / Jacqueline Vel -- Many governors, no province: The struggle for a province in the Luwu-Tana Toraja area in South Sulawesi / Dik Roth -- Sold down the river: Renegotiating public power over



nature in Central Kalimantan / John F Mccarthy -- Deregulation of the tin trade and creation of a local Shadow State: A Bangka case study / Erwiza Erman -- ‘Shadow State’?: Business and politics in the province of Banten / Syarif Hidayat -- The rise and fall of governor Puteh / M. Isa Sulaiman and Gerry van Klinken -- The security forces and regional violence in Poso / Arianto Sangaji -- Criminality and the political economy of security in Lombok / John M. Macdougall -- Preserving the peace in post-New Order Minahasa / David Henley , Maria J.C. Schouten and Alex J. Ulaen -- Civil society in Jepara: Fractious but inclusive / Jim Schiller -- Ethnic identity politics in West Kalimantan / Taufiq Tanasaldy -- Family rule in Wajo, South Sulawesi / Andi Faisal Bakti -- Bali: An open fortress / Henk Schulte Nordholt -- Ambivalent identities: Decentralization and Minangkabau political communities / Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann -- Contesting boundaries in the Riau Archipelago / Carole Faucher -- Erring decentralization and elite politics in Papua / Jaap Timmer -- Glossary / Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Abbreviations and acronyms / Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- About the authors / Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Bibliography / Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken -- Index / Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken.

Sommario/riassunto

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)