13. Regional Autonomy and Its Discontents: The Case of Post-New Order Bali

Ramstedt, Martin

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“…The Balinese-Hindu-majority island of Bali is often studied by anthropologists, art historians and ethno-musicologists for its "exotic" culture, famed arts, and ritual life, but political or legal analysis is less common. Some recent work by Bali scholars has addressed the effects of decentralisation on Balinese society (Ramstedt 2009;Nordholt 2007;MacDougall 2003) and Balinese election politics (Arsana 2009;Putra 2008, 2009). However, most studies on contemporary Balinese politics directly address neither the roles (or lack of roles) of Balinese women in political institutions nor the effects of political and institutional change on the lives of Balinese women.…”

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Women's Political Participation in Indonesia: Decentralisation, Money Politics and Collective Memory in Bali

Rhoads¹

2012

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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This article contends that cultural, political and historical factors create a local political environment where de facto discrimination against women is the norm. Without thoroughly addressing and altering the underlying issues causing discrimination against women in politics, a weak quota system will not immediately lead to increased women's participation in Bali. This paper argues that the leading factors contributing to low levels of Balinese women's participation include widespread money politics, the revitalisation of customary institutions and local identities through decentralisation, and the collective memory of the violent dissolution of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) in 1965–66.

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Women's Political Participation in Indonesia: Decentralisation, Money Politics and Collective Memory in Bali

Rhoads¹

2012

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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“…The debates over the location of large-scale commercial tourism and real estate projects within the sacred sphere surrounding the temple at Tanah Lot and subsequently at a number of other sacred sites -Sakénan temple on Serangan Island, Uluwatu temple at Pecatu on Nusa Dua, and numerous sites in the mountains of Bedugul -came to stand surrogate also for a range of social, economic, political as well as ecological concerns, which have fuelled public discontent over the direction of development on the island. The much vaunted Balinese philosophy of Tri Hita Karana -responsibility for maintaining balanced relationships between the tripartite spiritual, social and environmental domains -was supposed to be the fundamental planning principle supporting the unique character of Bali's culture and an underlying policy commitment to appropriate forms of cultural tourism (Picard 1996;Propinsi Bali 1995;Ramstedt 2009). The concept, like so many other constructs of Indonesian national and regional identity since independence, came to epitomize the abyss between bureaucratic rhetoric and political practice (Roth 2012).…”

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Risk and the Sacred: Environment, Media and Public Opinion in Bali

Warren

2012

Oceania

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This exploration of controversies over environmental regulation in the Indonesian province of Bali traces the relationship between the media, environmental attitudes and Balinese identity, focusing on the religious dimension of that identity and the ways in which this has become bound up with conceptions of environmental imbalance and a popular critique of capitalist development on the island. The fusion of cultural and environmental metaphors of 'erosion' and 'preservation' in public discourse is striking in the Balinese case, since sites of great spiritual significance are also attractive to investors for their aesthetic appeal and heritage value (Verschuuren et al. 2010). From the earliest emergence of environmental conflict on the island, the emotive power of cultural identity became intimately connected with environmental politics. This article traces several of the pervasive and interconnected dichotomies -sacred and profane, cultural value and economic interest, environmental preservation and use (exploitation), certainty and uncertainty (risk) -that characterise debates surrounding environmental regulation and development on the island.

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“…A distinction between customary (adat) and administrative (dinas) institutions first instigated by the Dutch colonial administration (Reuter, 2009: 866) gave rise to a 'dual order of political relations' (Warren, 1993: 70) that was never completely subsumed by Suharto's New Order autocracy. Post New Order, in democratic and decentralized Indonesia, the authority of customary institutions has been greatly recuperated (Ramstedt, 2009) and provides the basis for local corporatism articulated through concerns for communal security.…”

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Trouble in paradise: Contesting security in Bali

McDonald

Wilson

2017

Security Dialogue

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The last decade in Indonesia has seen the emergence of localized militia groups. In Bali, these groups are now particularly prolific. Conventional wisdom in international relations thought is that these organizations constitute a threat to the authority of the state (its monopoly on the legitimate use of force) and may require national security measures to deal with them. Yet these organizations ultimately define their own role in terms of the provision of security, claiming that they act to preserve or advance core values of their communities. In this sense, their security role with reference to the state is ambiguous: they often enjoy legitimacy at the local level and perform important security functions for their local communities, even while constituting an alternative site of security practice and challenging the (exclusive) security role of the Indonesian state. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article examines these actors as security agents and employs a framework of security contestation to make sense of the manner in which they engage with and redefine the provision of security in Bali. In this context, the emergence and practices of Balinese militia groups challenge the way we view non-state actors in the security space and, more generally, the way we conceive security agency in international relations.

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13. Regional Autonomy and Its Discontents: The Case of Post-New Order Bali

Cited by 10 publications

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Women's Political Participation in Indonesia: Decentralisation, Money Politics and Collective Memory in Bali

Women's Political Participation in Indonesia: Decentralisation, Money Politics and Collective Memory in Bali

Risk and the Sacred: Environment, Media and Public Opinion in Bali

Trouble in paradise: Contesting security in Bali

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