Indonesianising Indonesia: Conservative indigenism in an age of globalisation

Bourchier, David

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“…Sukarno, for instance, used the notion of adat and village life as well, but rather emphasized mutual cooperation, solidarity, and social equality (Bourchier 2007 : 114–117). In other words, there was a conservative and a populist indigenism among those who struggled for Indonesian independence, and both deployed the notion of adat for their purposes (Bourchier 1998 : 204–205, 209).…”

Section: Indigeneity In the Indonesian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paradoxes of indigeneity: identity, the state, and the economy in Indonesia

Duile

2021

Dialect Anthropol

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Contributing to recent debates on indigeneity, this article investigates contradictions of indigeneity, especially the “indigenous paradox,” that is, the formation of indigeneity through claiming sovereignty and autonomy from the state by acknowledging the very state and its laws as the framework for those claims, in the context of Indonesia. After analyzing how indigeneity came into existence in the Indonesian context, this article sheds light on the process of indigenous recognition in the Duri highlands, South Sulawesi. It is argued that the contradictions of indigeneity concern not only indigenous—state relations, but also narratives on tradition and history, and most of all, economic contradictions. It is the recognition of the overall framework of capitalism and the state which makes possible the emergence of alternative local economies based upon solidarity. Drawing on Louis Althusser’s concept of overdetermination, this article suggests that indigeneity shapes the way how economic contradictions are expressed, and while it provides local spaces for alternative economies, indigeneity is also prone to being incorporated into the logics of capitalism.

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Section: Indigeneity In the Indonesian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paradoxes of indigeneity: identity, the state, and the economy in Indonesia

Duile

2021

Dialect Anthropol

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“…The nationalist movement referred to a populist version of Indonesian indigeneity, indigeneity that on the one hand sought to transcend the particular identities of the plural society with their particular languages, religions, and customs. It was populist, insofar, as it relied on widely shared and commonly acknowledged patterns and values (such as gotong royong , mutual help) as basic “Indonesian” features for the new state (Bourchier, 1998: 204). On the other hand, the movement had to consider the traditional elements that it borrowed from the adat of several groups in the archipelago and thus was declared to be an expression of genuine Indonesian identity.…”

Section: Marginality In Indonesia: Politics Law and The Imaginationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This ambiguity reflects the need for an indigenous foundation of the state, on the one hand, and the need for unity on the other, that is, a national unity indigenously grounded, but potentially at odds with particular indigeneities. As Bourchier (1998: 206) has pointed out, the new state borrowed its idea of Indonesian-ness from discourses of indigeneity in the sense of autochthony and defined its political features in populist terms: guided democracy ( demokrasi terpimpin ) and gotong royong , for instance, were portrayed as originally Indonesian in opposition to liberal and individualist Western stances. Adat as the Indonesian other of Western imperialism and individualism also emerges in the agricultural law of 1960.…”

Section: Marginality In Indonesia: Politics Law and The Imaginationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As much as these conservative discourses on indigeneity stress Indonesian-ness, they borrowed heavily from anti-liberal, reactionary Catholic and German romanticist political currents in Europe and fascist Japanese ideas. It was mainly the old elite that had previously collaborated with the colonial regime in the bureaucracy that supported these reactionary thoughts (Bourcher, 1998: 205–207). As an antithesis to populist indigenous discourses of national unity, they came into power only by stressing the indigenous character of their own traditionalist version of Indonesia.…”

Section: Marginality In Indonesia: Politics Law and The Imaginationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Indigeneity and the State in Indonesia: The Local Turn in the Dialectic of Recognition

Sukri

Duile

2020

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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When the indigenous peoples’ movement emerged in the 1990s and grew stronger in the wake of reformasi, people formally termed “backward” and “primitive” suddenly emerged as political actors. This article traces the relationship between the state and the idea of the original, sometimes referred to as the autochthonous, sometimes as the indigenous, in Indonesian history and analyses how these relationships are reflected in legislation on land issues, the major concern of recent indigenous movements. In a second step, the article deals with current political strategies of the indigenous movement (AMAN), concluding that the movement is shifting its efforts from the “centre” (national legislation), to the provinces and the margins, a process we term the “local turn” in the indigenous people’s movement in Indonesia. By drawing on the example of Enrekang, South Sulawesi, the contribution shows how peraturan dearah (local regulations) provide a basis for recognition within the margins of the Indonesian nation state.

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“…Within the national discourses of development, the kampung represents a bastion of timeless Indonesian culture, and a space from which students believed they had to distance themselves in order to become part of modern society. This was especially true during the Suharto New Order, where the kampung was used to legitimise political and economic policies as well as class distinctions, becoming what Bourchier has referred to as a form of ‘conservative indigenism’ (Bourchier, 1998). Indonesian culture, through the kampung , was promoted as being communalistic and harmonious, and so reinforced Javanese aristocratic notions of statecraft.…”

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Salafi activism and the promotion of a modern Muslim identity

Chaplin

2018

South East Asia Research

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Indonesia has witnessed the emergence of a market of Islamic goods, services and media platforms that have catalysed a qualitative shift in the ways individuals come to express their religious convictions. Salafi Islam is no exception to this transformation, and this article provides a case study of contemporary Salafi propagation amongst Yogyakarta’s students and graduates. Through description and analysis of campus based religious lectures, websites, magazines and fashion outlets linked to the al-Atsary Islamic Education Foundation, this article explores the intricacies of campus affiliated da’wa. Linked to a ‘literalist’ interpretation of Islam reliant on scholars in Saudi Arabia, Salafism is frequently denounced as foreign to Indonesian norms. Yet, while activists do indeed promote a rigid adherence to Islamic tenets, they also align Islamic values to concerns with a modern Muslim identity. By framing Salafism as sensitive to ideas of professional employment, while juxtaposing it against images of a less well-educated rural Islam, they have thus have created a unique strand of urban Salafi propagation.

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Indonesianising Indonesia: Conservative indigenism in an age of globalisation

Cited by 13 publications

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Paradoxes of indigeneity: identity, the state, and the economy in Indonesia

Paradoxes of indigeneity: identity, the state, and the economy in Indonesia

Indigeneity and the State in Indonesia: The Local Turn in the Dialectic of Recognition

Salafi activism and the promotion of a modern Muslim identity

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