Introduction

Debating Spatial Governance in the Pluralistic Institutional and Legal Setting of Bali

“…Those critical of the political developments used the phrase to express their fear that decentralisation would amount to a reempowerment of regional elites claiming power and authority on the basis of ethnicity, indigeneity, the history of local polities like kingdoms, etc. See for example Schulte Nordholt and van Klinken (2007).…”

At the edges of states; Dynamics of state formation in the Indonesian borderlands

“…See Aspinall and Fealy 2003b;Schulte Nordholt and Van Klinken 2007b. highlighting the role of locally entrenched elites. 21 Second, and linked to the above, is the creation of new administrative districts often headed by local elites motivated by their desire to enhance their authority over valuable local resources.…”