Title: Movements for Land Rights in Democratic Indonesia
Abstract: This chapter deals with land rights, which have long been a matter of contention in Indonesia. It argues that a wave of peasant protests in the late Suharto period—and, in particular, a series of high-profile land disputes—not only gave rise to a series of regional peasant unions but also helped destabilize the regime. Like the labor movement, the peasant movement played little or no part in the actual moment of regime change. But, also like the labor movement, peasant movements have since worked to make use of the new political spaces made available to them by democratization. As the movement for land rights has evolved, it has been forced to broaden its repertoire of action from traditional modes of contentious politics, such as mass mobilization, to include tactics such as critical knowledge production, engagement in electoral politics, and a range of economic strategies. The chapter concludes, however, that the movement failed to mount an effective challenge to the dominance of Indonesia's political and economic elites in this domain.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-12-15
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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