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Title Local power and politics in Indonesia : decentralisation & democratisation / edited by Edward Aspinall and Greg Fealy
Published Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Indonesia update series
Indonesia update series.
Contents Tables; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Glossary; 1 Introduction: Decentralisation, Democratisation and theRise of the Local; PART I Political and Economic Update; 2 Political Update 2002: Megawati's Holding Operation; 3 Economic Update 2002: Struggling to Maintain Momentum; PART II Decentralisation and Democratisation Overview; 4 Regional Autonomy and Local Politics in Indonesia; 5 Not Enough Politics! Power, Participation and the NewDemocratic Polity in Indonesia; 6 What Is Happening on the Ground? The Progress ofDecentralisation
7 New Rules, Old Structures and the Limits of DemocraticDecentralisationPART III Regional Case Studies; 8 Power and Politics in North Sumatra: The Uncompleted Reformasi; 9 Who Are the Orang Riau? Negotiating Identity acrossGeographic and Ethnic Divides; 10 The Privatisation of Padang Cement: Regional Identity andEconomic Hegemony in the New Era of Decentralisation; 11 Coming Apart and Staying Together at the Centre:Debates over Provincial Status in Java and Madura; 12 Changing the Cultural Landscape of Local Politics inPost-authoritarian Indonesia: The View from Blora,Central Java
13 Between Rights and Repression: The Politics of SpecialAutonomy in PapuaPART IV Institutions and Society; 14 Decentralisation and Women in Indonesia: One Step Back,Two Steps Forward?; 15 Shifting Power to the Periphery: The Impact ofDecentralisation on Forests and Forest People; 16 Business as Usual? The Indonesian Armed Forces and LocalPolitics in the Post-Soeharto Era; 17 Decentralisation and the Indonesian Bureaucracy:Major Changes, Minor Impact?; References; Index
Summary Indonesia is experiencing an historic and dramatic shift in political and economic power from the centre to the local level. The collapse of the highly centralised Soeharto regime allowed long-repressed local aspirations to come to the fore. The new Indonesian Government then began one of the world's most radical decentralisation programmes, under which extensive powers are being devolved to the district level. In every region and province, diverse popular movements and local claimants to sta ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-290) and index
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Subject Decentralization in government -- Indonesia -- Congresses
Central-local government relations -- Indonesia -- Congresses
Democratization -- Indonesia -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General.
Central-local government relations
Decentralization in government
Democratization
Economic history
Politics and government
Lokale politiek.
Decentralisatie.
Macht.
SUBJECT Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 1998- -- Congresses
Indonesia -- Economic conditions -- 1997- -- Congresses
Subject Indonesia
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Aspinall, Edward
Fealy, Greg, 1957-
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Indonesia Update Conference (2002 : Australian National University)
LC no. 2003411876
ISBN 9789812305237
9812305238
Other Titles Decentralisation & democratisation