Being Special, Becoming Indigenous: Dilemmas of Special Adat Rights in Indonesia

Tyson, Adam

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“…Th e demand for immediate recognition is one of the reasons for continuous movement along with the extended autonomy gained by the village. Th is is not only at the formal level, but an acknowledgment proved by granting rural village rights, including the provision of free spaces to manage assets based on customary rules or adat (Djaha and Lake, 2018; Steenbergen, 2016; Tyson, 2011). Th is is as the antithesis of the situation controlled by the centralized government system.…”

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Indigenous Village Governance: Lessons from Indonesia

Nas¹,

Nurlinah²,

Haryanto³

2019

PAI

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Th is article explores the model of indigenous village governance as an approach to determine locality value adopted. Th is approach was chosen in order to criticize the concept of governance which has so far neglected the value of locality that exists in society. Th is research uses the qualitative method while analyzing the individual and social relationships of people living in Tanah Toa, Indonesia. Th e research focus is on indigenous governance actors, processes, and regulations. Th e result shows that Tanah Toa runs the governance with locality value based on three aspects. Th e fi rst consists of civil society groups while neglecting partners such as market and state. Th e second focuses on determining whether service delivery to the community is more inclusive, isolated and not integrated with the modern government system. Th irdly, it is self-regulatory, with the rule that runs in government initiated by the community.

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Indigenous Village Governance: Lessons from Indonesia

Nas¹,

Nurlinah²,

Haryanto³

2019

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“…Examples of ethnographic accounts of “becoming indigenous” include Li () and Tyson () for Asia; Speed () for Latin America; and Hodgson (), Igoe (), and Lynch () for cases in Africa.…”

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Essentialism and the Indigenous Politics of Recognition in Southern Africa

Sylvain

2014

American Anthropologist

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In this essay, I explore familiar tensions between anthropological theories of identity and activism on behalf of indigenous causes, with special attention to strategic uses of theoretically dubious forms of essentialism. I examine the contradictions between essentialism and constructionism, and between recognition and redistribution, in light of San struggles for rights to traditional territories in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana. I begin by outlining how the politics of theorizing in an apartheid context imposed a false choice between essentialist and deconstructionist views of identity. I then discuss the controversial relocation of San from the CKGR and how

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“…Masyarakat adat is translated as "indigenous people" and allows them to ally with the international indigenous peoples' movements. SAD, therefore, explicitly refers to masyarakat adat and the distinctive international attention indigenous communities receive; they are, as Tyson called it, different and "special" (Tyson 2011) and, therefore, appeal to the category of "indigenous" as defined by the ILO convention and used in UNDRIP. In contrast, the name Batin Sembilan implies not first and foremost indigeneity, but rather defines the community's place in history and the changing socio-cultural landscapes and ruling dynasties over centuries.…”

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“…(Li 2001:653). Based on this contradictory appeal, the act of playing by the rule of the state, adopting its strategies, the legitimacy of the state receives acknowledgment by those who initially had the aim of challenging it (Li 2001;Tyson 2011). The ambivalence of this potential expected to lie behind the idea of recognition (Tyson 2011:670) is further traceable in the difficulty Wana see in recognising the state (see above).…”

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“…Bapak Palimbong became Vice Regent of Toraja in 2000. 16 Toraja noble elders quickly became involved in AMAN on different levels (see Tyson 2010). Membership in AMAN, however, is a contested issue in Toraja, as nobles from competing adat districts claim to be the only officially recognised AMAN representative and try to prevent others from gaining access to the structures and resources.…”

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Mobilities of Indigeneity: Intermediary NGOs and Indigenous Peoples in Indonesia

Sanmukri¹

Adat and Indigeneity in Indonesia

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This volume presents the results of five years' research on the processes of the propertisation of culture that have been carried out by the Research Unit 772 on The Constitution of Cultural Property (speaker: Regina Bendix), sponsored by the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). 1 Our research focused on the certification and heritisation of culture (nominations and listing of tangible and intangible UNESCO World Heritages) during the first three years. Since 2011, we have been investigating how "culture", or more specifically adat (concepts of traditional ways of life and values), is shaped and deployed by various actors in Indonesia to define their identities, reclaim rights and property, and reposition themselves in the multi-ethnic state of Indonesia since the fall of the Suharto regime (1998). A workshop entitled "Adat between state governance and self-determined indigeneity in Indonesia" was held at Göttingen University in October 2011. The preliminary results of the most recent anthropological research on adat or rather on "indigeneity" in Indonesia were presented by scholars at this workshop, including our much-valued research fellow from Jakarta, Fadjar Ibnu Thufail, from the Göttingen projects, and also by a scholar from Bonn University. Since the struggles for recognition of a special adat particularly of "indigenous groups" in Indonesia can only be understood against 1 The research on which the chapter by Steinebach is based was carried out during a project within the Collaborative Research Centre 990, "Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)", also based at Göttingen University. 4 Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin the background of international conventions and aid programmes for the promotion of indigenous peoples, two scholars from the International Law Department of Göttingen University (Katja Göcke and Maria Victoria Cabrera Ormaza) were invited, as well as the well-known Indonesian lawyer and indigenous peoples activist, Sandra Moniaga, to present their perspective on the issue of indigeneity. The present volume mirrors this anthropological-international law cooperation and exchange of views on indigeneity. We are grateful that two lawyers from Indonesia, Yance Arizona and Erasmus Cahyadi, wrote an insightful paper on the current state of affairs on a special law on indigenous peoples in Indonesia. Francesca Merlan, the renowned anthropologist from the National University in Canberra and an expert on "indigeneity", spent a month as a Fellow of the Research Unit at Göttingen in June 2013. We all benefitted tremendously from her lectures, the comments she gave on earlier versions of several chapters and her insights. She has written an Epilogue to the volume from an encompassing, comparative perspective. I would like to thank her for writing this important chapter, for her commitment and the fruitful discussions we had in a very friendly and relaxed atmosphere. This research only took place with the great help ...

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Being Special, Becoming Indigenous: Dilemmas of Special Adat Rights in Indonesia

Cited by 24 publications

References 33 publications

Indigenous Village Governance: Lessons from Indonesia

Indigenous Village Governance: Lessons from Indonesia

Essentialism and the Indigenous Politics of Recognition in Southern Africa

Mobilities of Indigeneity: Intermediary NGOs and Indigenous Peoples in Indonesia

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