Renegotiating boundaries : local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia

Nordholt, H.G.C. Schulte; Klinken, Gerry van

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“…The best strategy for Sumba's local governments was to split up districts into smaller units (Vel 2007). This phenomenon could be found all over Indonesia (Aragon 2007;Schulte Nordholt and Van Klinken 2007). 7 The splitting campaign took a long time (also due to a lack of money for bribing the relevant officials), but eventually it succeeded in 2007, when West Sumba was divided into three new districts.…”

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Decentralisation and village governance in Indonesia: the return to thenagariand the 2014 Village Law

Vel

Bedner

2015

The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law

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Section: What Makes West Sumatra Special?mentioning

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“…The centre of governmental gravity moved considerably downward and many Jakarta-watchers followed suit (Schulte Nordholt and Van Klinken 2007). Yet, few looked beyond provinces, districts, and towns to see what happened at the village level.…”

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Decentralisation and village governance in Indonesia: the return to thenagariand the 2014 Village Law

Vel

Bedner

2015

The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law

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“…For the first time, Bali's development trajectory would lie in the hands of elected Balinese decisionmakers. But although democratization and decentralization have significantly altered the political atmosphere in which these debates now take place, they have failed to produce the transformation of power relations expected (see Aspinall and Mietzner 2009;Hadiz 2010;Schulte Nordholt and van Klinken 2007). 3 More than a decade into the 'Reform Era', little more than rhetoric has addressed the now entrenched patterns of corruption and exploitation.…”

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

Warren

2012

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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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“…After the economic and political crises of 1998-1999, which led to the fall of president Suharto's authoritarian New Order regime (Schulte Nordholt and van Klinken, 2007), the state withdrew its support for these smallholder schemes and the palm oil sector was liberalized to attract foreign direct investment. In the spirit of decentralization, the responsibility for plantation licensing and monitoring was transferred to district governments (McCarthy, 2010;Pichler, 2015).…”

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“…The central state supported these plantations through subsidies and by providing land and labour. After the economic and political crises of 1998-1999, which led to the fall of president Suharto's authoritarian New Order regime (Schulte Nordholt and van Klinken, 2007), the palm oil sector was extensively liberalized and responsibility for plantation licensing and monitoring was transferred to district governments (McCarthy, 2010;Pichler, 2015).…”

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Oil palms in the rice field : An ethnography of large-scale land acquisition foroil palm plantation development in West Kalimantan

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List of figures, tables and pictures ix Acknowledgements x Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1. Palm oil people 1.2. Land acquisition for oil palm plantation development 1.3. Fieldwork confusion: how to understand 'oil palm conflicts'? 1.4. Research questions 1.5. Palm oil controversies and policies 1.6. Research approach 1.7. Research location 1.8. Overview of the chapters Chapter 2 Theory and methodology 29 2.1. Atomizing land acquisition 2.2. Practices of conflict 2.3. Territorialization: claiming and counter-claiming 2.4. A place-based research approach 2.5. Ethnography of land acquisition and resistance 2.6. Reflecting on the researcher as a storyteller 2.7. Description of cases Chapter 3 Multi-functional lands facing oil palm monocultures 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Methodology 3.3. The meaning of land in oil palm land conflicts 3.4. Oil palm expansion in West Kalimantan 3.5. Oil Palm land conflict in Kebun Hijau village 3.6. The oil palm project 3.7. Conclusion Viii Chapter 4 "We'll turn your water into Coca-Cola" 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Land acquisition and FPIC 4.3. Regulating land acquisition for palm oil plantations 4.4. Case study: resistance against two plantation projects 4.5. Atomizing practices of land control for plantation development 4.6. Conclusion Chapter 5 Spaces for participation and resistance 117 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Gendered impacts of oil palm development 5.3. Spaces for participation 121 5.4. Methodology and methods 5.5. Gendered spaces for participation 5.6. Reflections and conclusion 137 Chapter 6 Counter-mapping against oil palm plantations 141 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Creating territories for resource extraction 6.3. "Map your land before someone else will" 6.4. Oil palm land conflicts in Sambas 6.5. What role for the new Village Law? 6.6. Conclusion Chapter 7 Oil palms in the rice field 161 7.1. Introduction 7.2. Processes of land acquisition and resistance 7.3. Putting global land acquisition in place 171 7.4. Implications for the palm oil debate 7.5. Concluding remarks: 'oil palms in the rice field' 177

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Renegotiating boundaries : local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia

Cited by 67 publications

References 2 publications

Decentralisation and village governance in Indonesia: the return to thenagariand the 2014 Village Law

Decentralisation and village governance in Indonesia: the return to thenagariand the 2014 Village Law

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

Oil palms in the rice field : An ethnography of large-scale land acquisition foroil palm plantation development in West Kalimantan

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