Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia
This book makes an important contribution to citizenship studies, not only in Indonesia but to the field in general. Contrary to the dominant patronage-clientelism paradigm of the Global South, the author demonstrates that notions of equality, justice, pa
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Gerry van Klinken
Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia
Gerry van Klinken
Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia
Gerry van Klinken University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Preface
Murder in Maumere is the story of one individual in a town so small that even many Indonesians have trouble placing it on a map. At the same time it is the story of an entire nation, and even a universal story. It tells of a desire for freedom, a longing to find a voice that rings out in the face of a hierarchy stiffened by tradition, and by brute state forces. In 1945, Indonesians fought a revolution for freedom. Yet today, many appear happy on an everyday basis to be ruled like clients by protective patrons. Why is citizenship of the rights-claiming, assertive kind so rare in this postcolonial country? That was the basic (if perhaps somewhat undiplomatic) question behind the Dutch-Indonesian research programme I had the privilege to be part of between 2012 and 2017. ‘From clients to citizens? Emerging citizenship in democratising Indonesia’ took us to the arena of local politics.1 This social zone has recently become of great interest in Indonesia, as it is in so many Third Wave democracies in the global south. This is
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