The Making of Middle Indonesia

Klinken, Gerry van

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“…In contrast, provinces like Banten, Lampung, Central Kalimantan, and Sulawesi that received high CPI scores are known for harboring entrenched political dynasties whose dominance largely rests on targeted distribution of state resources (Buehler, 2013). Other studies highlight the state-dependent nature of the economy in provincial capitals outside Java, arguing that they grew through a process of “state-sponsored urbanization” (van Klinken, 2014, p. 32). Lacking a broad industrial base, these provincial towns harbor a particular type of middle class consisting of, mainly, civil servants, contractors, and owners of small businesses that are highly dependent on state budgets (see van Klinken & Berenschot, 2014).…”

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The Political Economy of Clientelism: A Comparative Study of Indonesia’s Patronage Democracy

Berenschot

2018

Comparative Political Studies

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What kind of economic development curtails clientelistic politics? Most of the literature addressing this relationship focuses narrowly on vote buying, resulting in theories that emphasize the importance of declining poverty rates and a growing middle class. This article employs a combination of ethnographic fieldwork and an expert survey to engage in a first-ever, more comprehensive comparative study of within-country variation of clientelistic politics. I find a pattern that poorly matches these dominant theories: Clientelism is perceived to be less intense in rural, poverty-prone Java, while scores are high in relatively wealthy yet state-dependent provincial capitals. On the basis of these findings, I develop an alternative perspective on the relationship between economic development and clientelism. Emphasizing the importance of societal constraints, I argue that the concentration of control over economic activities fosters clientelism because it stifles the public sphere and inhibits effective scrutiny and disciplining of politico-business elites.

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The Political Economy of Clientelism: A Comparative Study of Indonesia’s Patronage Democracy

Berenschot

2018

Comparative Political Studies

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Fishers’ responses to the Danish seiner ban and the history of fisheries governance on the Java north coast

Semedi

Schneider

2020

Maritime Studies

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In 2015, the Indonesian government announced that it would prohibit the operation of the so-called cantrang (Danish Seine). The stated purpose of the cantrang ban was to make marine fisheries more environmentally sustainable. In response, cantrang fishers along the north coast of Java staged mass protests, and after 3 years of negotiations and uncertainty, the government exempted the cantrang fleets on the Java north coast from the policy. This paper analyses fishers’ responses to the ban from a historical and ethnographic perspective. Specifically, it compares the cantrang ban to two earlier government interventions in the fisheries on the Java north coast, one in 1905, the second 1980/81. With each intervention, a new governance principle was introduced to small-scale fisheries, established elites transferred their capital elsewhere, and new elites emerged who supported the new principle locally. Since 2015, however, only very few members of the established elites have exited the cantrang fishery, and no members of a new local elite have emerged yet who would support sustainability as a governance principle for fisheries. The paper aims to clarify why this was the case. More generally, it suggests that understanding the history of fisheries governance on the Java north coast requires attention to the role of local elites, and therefore to social differentiations among fishers.

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On the Edge of Asia: Maritime Trade in East Indonesia, Early Seventeenth to Mid-twentieth Century

Sutherland¹

2015

Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750

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The Making of Middle Indonesia

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

The Political Economy of Clientelism: A Comparative Study of Indonesia’s Patronage Democracy

The Political Economy of Clientelism: A Comparative Study of Indonesia’s Patronage Democracy

Fishers’ responses to the Danish seiner ban and the history of fisheries governance on the Java north coast

On the Edge of Asia: Maritime Trade in East Indonesia, Early Seventeenth to Mid-twentieth Century

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