"There's Money but No Work": Diploma Disruptions in Urban Papua

Munro, Jenny; Parker, Lyn; Baransano, Yohana

doi:10.1353/cp.2021.0035

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“…The women described the early part of their lives during the Dutch era as revolving around training and work, being very busy and physically active, going to gardens, canoeing to various islands and coastal locations and walking to their office jobs. These descriptions of busy‐ness remind us of how they persevered, and can be contrasted not only with stereotypical views of Papuans today as ‘lazy’ but with the type of activity that is now ingrained in development strategies in Papua—waiting for assistance (Munro et al ., 2021).…”

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From saving to survivance: Rethinking Indigenous Papuan women's vulnerabilities in Jayapura, Indonesia

Munro

Baransano²

2023

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Racism, sexism and gendered violence disadvantage Indigenous Papuan women, yet government responses often focus on individual interventions like ‘raising awareness’ or training. In this article, we build on efforts to challenge these narratives about women's vulnerabilities. We draw on life history interviews with older Papuan women in Jayapura to rethink vulnerabilities and everyday struggles in the context of structural inequalities. We interpret their stories as forms of ‘survivance’ and argue that contrary to dominant perspectives, Papuan women are not economic novices or passive victims. Rather, opportunities have narrowed over time, and women's long history of activity, strategy, persistence and resistance has largely been forgotten. Women's life histories shed light on urban colonialism and Indigenous survivance in Jayapura since the 1940s, when Jayapura was still a Dutch colonial capital and not yet an Indonesian frontier. In a time dominated by concerns about Papuan demise, their experiences are provocative for rethinking vulnerabilities.

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From saving to survivance: Rethinking Indigenous Papuan women's vulnerabilities in Jayapura, Indonesia

Munro

Baransano²

2023

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‘Menjadi Manusia’ (Becoming Somebody): The Aspirations and Realities of Marind Young People, Papua, Indonesia

Sudibyo,

Parker

2024

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The Marind live in the southeast corner of Indonesian Papua, traditionally relying on sago cultivation, gardening, hunting and foraging for their daily subsistence. Like many Indigenous People, they have been subject to a series of unsought and often devastating incursions – of disease, sedentarization, cultural dislocation, the theft of traditional economic resources, the occupation of their land by large numbers of transmigrants, and the depredations of a massive agri‐business development. Multiple observers have predicted their annihilation over more than a century. Against this dire backdrop, it is important to study the aspirations and experiences of Marind youth. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, the article examines the meanings of the ubiquitous and hopeful expression, the desire to ‘menjadi manusia’, to ‘become somebody’, as a measure of human‐ness, and of Marind, and Papuan identity. Parents admonish their children to go to school so that they can ‘become somebody’ – thereby challenging the stigmatizing perception that the Marind are backward and inferior to non‐Papuan Indonesians. The article analyses the life stories of several Marind young people, showing their aspirations and the precariousness and unpredictability of their life pathways, but also their adaptability and resilience.

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Desiring Family Ties: Marriage, Class, and Care in the Life Stories of Young, Lower-Class Newlyweds in Indonesia

Munro,

Parker,

Rahayuningtyas

et al. 2024

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"There's Money but No Work": Diploma Disruptions in Urban Papua

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

From saving to survivance: Rethinking Indigenous Papuan women's vulnerabilities in Jayapura, Indonesia

From saving to survivance: Rethinking Indigenous Papuan women's vulnerabilities in Jayapura, Indonesia

‘Menjadi Manusia’ (Becoming Somebody): The Aspirations and Realities of Marind Young People, Papua, Indonesia

Desiring Family Ties: Marriage, Class, and Care in the Life Stories of Young, Lower-Class Newlyweds in Indonesia

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