Extended Agrarian Question in Concessionary Capitalism: The Jakarta’s Kaum Miskin Kota

Bosman Batubara; Noer Fauzi Rachman

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Extended Agrarian Question in Concessionary Capitalism: The Jakarta’s Kaum Miskin Kota

Bosman Batubara^*, Noer Fauzi Rachman

^*Corresponding author for this work

International Development Studies

Padjadjaran University

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Abstract

This article reassesses agrarian questions by using the ongoing explosion in urban and urbanization theories to explain Jakarta’s urban poor (the Kaum Miskin Kota) as an extended agrarian question. It shows how the two capitalist development trajectories identified by Lenin as the Russian and American paths, or the transformation of feudal large-scale and small landholders into capitalists, respectively, do not apply in Indonesia. In the latter, a “concessionary capitalism” of large-scale land claims and allocations by the state is observed. This specific process produces specific agrarian questions of soil/land and labor through which the urban poor germinated. It closes with a political project, that is, to open more alliance-building possibilities between urban and rural social movements.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	232-255
Number of pages	24
Journal	Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy
Volume	11
Issue number	2
Early online date	4 May 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/22779760221095121
Publication status	Published - Aug 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) for doctoral scholarship of the first author; University of Amsterdam for providing first author part-time job (NWO project number: W 07.50.1806); Margreet Zwarteveen, Michelle Kooy, and Yves Van Leynseele for years of discussion on this topic; and all participants of our panel in People, Power, Politics, Pandemics, & Other Perils in Southeast Asia 35th Biennial Conference of The Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies 21–24 October 2021, in which we presented this article, and in particular, Rita Padawangi (one of panel organizers), for her comments on our draft. The responsibility for the final version stays with us. Doctoral scholarship of the first author, to which research for this article is part of, is funded by Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education.

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© 2022 SAGE Publications.

Keywords

Extended agrarian question
Indonesia
concessionary capitalism
near-South
urban poor
urbanization

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