State of Authority

by Van Klinken, Gerry

• ISBN13: 9780877277507
• ISBN10: 0877277508
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia

Summary

This book challenges and reinvigorates our understanding of Indonesia's postcolonial state. Based on recent fieldwork in locales throughout the archipelago, the essays in this volume bring to life figures of authority who have sought to carve out positions of power for themselves using legal and illegal means. These analytical portraits demonstrate that the state of Indonesia is not monolithic, but is constituted from the ground up by a host of local negotiations and symbolic practices. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Map of Indonesia	p. vii
Introduction: State in Society in Indonesia	p. 1
Reflections on the State in Indonesia	p. 17
Negara Beling: Street-Level Authority in an Indonesian Slum	p. 47
Milk Coffee at 10 AM: Encountering the State through Pilkada in North Sumatra	p. 73
The Majelis Ulama Indonesia versus "Heresy": The Resurgence of Authoritarian Islam	p. 95
Reading Politics from a Book of Donations: The Moral Economy of the Political Class in Sumba	p. 117
Provincial Business and Politics	p. 149
Governing Villages in Indonesia's Coastal Zone	p. 163
Their Moment in the Sun: The New Indonesian Parliamentarians from the Old OKP	p. 181
Contributors	p. 219
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