Borneo 1963-66: Counter-insurgency Operations and War Termination

Tuck, Christopher

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“…26 In 1964, 30,000 British soldiers were employed in this undeclared war, the largest British military operation since World War Two. 27 The M I C H A E L E I L E N B E R G leftist rebel army was called the North Kalimantan National Army (Tentara Nasional Kalimantan Utara, hereafter TNKU).…”

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Straddling the Border: A Marginal History of Guerrilla Warfare and ‘Counter-Insurgency’ in the Indonesian Borderlands, 1960s–1970s

Eilenberg

2011

Mod. Asian Stud.

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Post-independence ethnic minorities inhabiting the Southeast Asian borderlands were willingly or unwillingly pulled into the macro politics of territoriality and state formation. The rugged and hilly borderlands delimiting the new nation-states became battlefronts of state-making and spaces of confrontation between divergent political ideologies. In the majority of the Southeast Asian borderlands, this implied violent disruption in the lives of local borderlanders that came to affect their relationship to their nation-state. A case in point is the ethnic Iban population living along the international border between the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan and the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. Based on local narratives, the aim of this paper is to unravel the little known history of how the Iban segment of the border population in West Kalimantan became entangled in the highly militarized international disputes with neighbouring Malaysia in the early 1960s, and in subsequent military co-operative ‘anti-communist’ ‘counter-insurgency’ efforts by the two states in the late 1960–1970s. This paper brings together facets of national belonging and citizenship within a borderland context with the aim of understanding the historical incentives behind the often ambivalent, shifting and unruly relationship between marginal citizens like the Iban borderlanders and their nation-state.

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Straddling the Border: A Marginal History of Guerrilla Warfare and ‘Counter-Insurgency’ in the Indonesian Borderlands, 1960s–1970s

Eilenberg

2011

Mod. Asian Stud.

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“…As indicated above, military involvement in resource extraction and population resettlement in Indonesia and Southeast Asia as a whole is not a novel phenomenon and can be traced back to the counterinsurgencies of the Cold War era, when many of the burgeoning Southeast Asian nation-states were plunged into violent conflict. The rugged and forested borderlands often became insurgent hideouts and thus key battlefields in the war against communism and communist regimes (Dennis and Grey 1996, Subritzky 2000, Jones 2002, Tuck 2004, instigating processes of violent resettlement, resource exploitation and firm military control (De Koninck 2006). As argued by Nancy Peluso and Peter Vandergeest, counterinsurgency measures in forest frontiers in Southeast Asia (especially along national borders) have played a crucial role in state territorialization of forest resources (2011) Many of these forestlands have since been under various forms of military control and have become zones for economic exploitation, generating revenue for the military budgets (Peluso 2008, Eilenberg 2011.…”

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Frontier constellations: agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian-Malaysian border

Eilenberg

2014

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Borderland regions in Southeast Asia have increasingly been reimagined as resource-rich, unexploited 'wastelands' targeted for large-scale development schemes for economic integration and control. Common and overlapping features of these regions are processes of resource extraction, agricultural expansion, population resettlement and securitization, and the confluence of these dynamic processes creates special frontier constellations. Through the case of the Indonesian-Malaysian borderlands, I explore how processes of frontier colonization through agricultural expansion have been a recurrent product of Indonesian development and security policies since the early 1960s. I argue that frontier development accelerates and intensifies when national discourses of security and sovereignty and state-led agrarian expansion intersect along national borders. The study generates new insights into how contemporary statecapitalist processes of agricultural expansion in the borderlands of Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia are justified through discourses of national sovereignty and notions of 'untamed' and 'wild' resource frontiers. I highlight the multiple meanings and notions associated with regions where resource frontiers and national borders interlock. The study offers an explanation of how frontiers as discursive constructs and material realities play out along national borders.

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Beyond the State: Armed Groups and Social Order

Miroiu

2020

Political Theory of Armed Groups

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Borneo 1963-66: Counter-insurgency Operations and War Termination

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Straddling the Border: A Marginal History of Guerrilla Warfare and ‘Counter-Insurgency’ in the Indonesian Borderlands, 1960s–1970s

Straddling the Border: A Marginal History of Guerrilla Warfare and ‘Counter-Insurgency’ in the Indonesian Borderlands, 1960s–1970s

Frontier constellations: agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian-Malaysian border

Beyond the State: Armed Groups and Social Order

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