Urbanization in (post-) New Order Indonesia: connecting unevenness in the city with that in the countryside

Bosman Batubara; Michelle Kooy; Van Leynseele Yves; Margreet Zwarteveen; Ujianto Ari

doi:10.1080/03066150.2021.2000399

Urbanization in (post-) New Order Indonesia: connecting unevenness in the city with that in the countryside

Bosman Batubara^*
, Michelle Kooy
, Van Leynseele Yves
, Margreet Zwarteveen
, Ujianto Ari

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This article explores the relationship between the uneven outcomes of development in Indonesian cities with exclusionary outcomes of capitalist development in rural areas. Combining concepts of planetary urbanization with critical agrarian studies, we show how sociospatial and socionatural differentiations in (post-) New Order Java result in the emergence of the Kaum Miskin Kota, a ‘stagnant relative surplus population’ residing in precarious flood-prone urban spaces. These forms of differentiation are dialectically related to rural enclosures caused by the creation of political forest and political water. Tracing such relations forms a good basis to connect rural- and urban-based social movements.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1207-1226
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Peasant Studies
Volume	50
Issue number	3
Early online date	4 Jan 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.2000399
Publication status	Published - 2023
Externally published	Yes

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Funding

We would like to thank UPC/JRMK and Ciliwung Merdeka network for facilitating research in Jakarta; Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) for funding doctoral study of the first author; Arupa, The Indonesian Institute of Sciences, our colleagues at Water Governance Department at IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education, the 2019 scholar-activists Writeshop-Workshop (co-organized by: Journal of Peasant Studies, College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University [Beijing], and Future Agricultures Consortium), and the 2020 Rujak Centre for Urban Studies and Antipode ‘Sekolah Urbanis’, all for discussing the early idea of this article; Noer Fauzi Rachman for endless discussion about agrarian movement; and three anonymous reviewers whose comments facilitate the strengthening of article’s internal logic. Responsibility for the final version stays with us.

Funders
Future Agricultures Consortium
JRMK
Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Keywords

Jakarta
New Order Indonesia
Urbanization
flood
political forest
relative surplus population

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