Renegotiating boundaries : local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia

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Renegotiating boundaries : local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia

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local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia

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eng

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For decades almost the only social scientists who visited Indonesia{u2019}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{u2019}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{u2019}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 {u2018}captured{u2019} 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 {u2013} mainly from Indonesia and the Netherlands but also from the United States, Australia, Germany, Canada and Portugal
Subject term: Humanities
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Subject term: Politics
Subject term: Political change
Subject term: Reformasi
Subject term: Democratization
Subject term: Decentralization
Subject term: Local government
Subject term: Good governance
Subject term: Civil society
Subject term: Local economy
Subject term: Ethnicity
Subject term: Cultural identity
Subject term: Violence
Subject term: Indonesia
Subject term: Politiek
Subject term: Politieke veranderingen
Subject term: Reformatie
Subject term: Democratie
Subject term: Decentralisatie
Subject term: Lokaal bestuur
Subject term: Bestuur
Subject term: Burgerlijk bestuur
Subject term: Lokale economie
Subject term: Etniciteit
Subject term: Culturele identiteit
Subject term: Geweld
Subject term: Indonesie

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