Ropewalking and Safety Nets

by Koning, Juliette

• ISBN13: 9789004154872
• ISBN10: 9004154876
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This volume discusses how national and local social security in Indonesia has changed over the past decades and in particular during the economic and political crisis of the late 20th and early 21st century. The contributions, based on case studies from urban and rural Java, focus on the evolution of existing formal and informal institutions providing social security and at the ways in which people create access to such institutions and develop strategies to handle insecurities. The main conclusion is that informal institutions providing support to those who need it, more and more tend to exclude the poor and weak sections of society, and that government policy in this field is only beginning to address these major social issues. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Between Two Worlds: Social Security in Indonesia	p. 1
Exclusion, Inclusion and Social Security in Central Java	p. 27
Harvesting and Housebuilding: Decline and Persistence of Reciprocal Labour in a Javanese Village, 1973-2000	p. 55
Precarious Safety Nets: Family Support for Widows in Malang	p. 79
Safety First: Strategies of Managing Insecurity among Chinese Indonesians in Yogyakarta	p. 107
Managing Money: Urban Self-Help Organisations in Yogyakarta	p. 125
Fishermen and Farmers: Entrepreneurs in Risks, Resources and Resource-Risks?	p. 147
Styles Matter: Livelihood and Insecurity in the East Javanese Uplands	p. 175
References	p. 199
Glossary	p. 209
Contributors	p. 213
Index	p. 217
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