Uma Politics [electronic resource] : an Ethnography of Democratization in West Sumba, Indonesia, 1986-2006 / Jacqueline A.C. Vel.
"Democracy cannot be implemented overnight. Democratization is an often unpredictable process. This book concentrates on that political transformation in one of Indonesia's most 'traditional' islands, Sumba. Why does democratization create such great opportunities for local polit...
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2008.
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| Series: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;
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Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction
- Sumbanese election campaign
- Making democracy work
- Outline and arguments
- Sumba in Indonesian context
- Neo-patrimonialism in a democratic state
- Widening world of the local elite
- State, power and the forms of capital
- Tradition and authority
- Space and time
- Individuals and networks
- Political class
- Uma economy and Uma politics
- II. Sumba and the state
- Sumba: geography and subsistence
- Population
- History of state formation on Sumba
- State and Sumbanese Christianity
- State as career: Umbu Djima and the forms of capital
- The state as bureaucratic procedures
- The state as economic sector
- Social cleavage
- III. Tradition, leadership and power
- Traditional cultural capital
- Ethnicity and traditional political organization
- Traditional leadership
- Legitimacy and adat
- Traditional concepts of power
- Power resources
- Village.
- IV. Legal pluralism and village politics
- Village politics
- Legal pluralism
- Forms of capital
- Adat in Lawonda
- The state in the village
- The Christian church in Lawonda
- The development organisation
- Umbu Hapi versus Pak Vincent
- Clash of paradigms or legal pluralism
- Village justice in West Sumba in 2004-- V. Regime change and democratization
- Democracy and constitutional liberalism
- Demands of Reformasi
- Changing local regime
- Uncertainty after May
- Capital town
- VI. Violence in Waikabubak
- Explaining communal violence
- Preparation: master narratives, previous antagonisms and crisis discourse
- Narrative one: clan rivalries
- Narrative two: violence, warfare and violent rituals in West Sumba
- Narrative three: local political rivalry
- Narrative four: national crisis discourse
- Trigger incident
- Transformation into communal conflict
- Elevation into a wider discourse
- The aftermath
- Explanation and interpretation
- Explanation one: criminal incident
- Explanation two: part of local elite's political struggle
- Explanation three: part of long series of endemic riots
- Waikabubak as case of 'post-Suharto violence in Indonesia'
- Consequences for the 1999 bupati elections.
- VII. Growing political public
- International development aid for political reform
- Civil society on Sumba
- Adat revival
- In touch with the rest of the world
- Radio and newspapers
- Voices of the political public
- Small town
- VIII. Creating a new district
- Decentralisation and pemekaran
- Economic stakes
- Historical arguments for pemekeran
- Cultural and religious arguments
- Rhetoric and theatre
- Social forces behind pemekaran
- Overseas Sumbanese
- Local campaign leaders
- Well-educated but unemployed youths
- Women
- Campaigning for Central Sumba
- IX. Elections
- Local election experience
- Democratic elections in
- Parliament elections in
- Presidential elections
- Pilkada
- West Sumba's pilkada candidates
- Umbu Bintang: the performing prince
- Election rally in Kabunduk, Central Sumba
- Symbols, rhetoric and 'the angry man'
- Pote Leba: the intellectual bureaucrat
- Golkar, bureaucrats and businessmen
- The result
- X. Conclusions
- The local context
- Capital and leadership
- Political identity
- Political class, political public and the tani class
- Democratization and Uma politics.