Forgotten people : poverty, risk and social security in Indonesia : the case of the Madurese / by Gerben Nooteboom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nooteboom, Gerben, 1970- author.

Series:

Power and place in Southeast Asia ; Volume 6.

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; Volume 296.

Power and Place in Southeast Asia, 1572-1892 ; Volume 6

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Landen Volkenkunde, 1572-1892 ; Volume 296

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor--Indonesia.

Poor.

Peasants--Indonesia--Java--Economic conditions.

Peasants.

Madurese (Indonesian people)--Indonesia--Kalimantan Timur--Economic conditions.

Madurese (Indonesian people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 314 pages) : illustrations (chielfy colour), colour maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2015

Leiden, Netherlands : BRILL, 2015.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

Forgotten People deals with people living at the fringes of the Indonesian society. It describes and analyses their livelihoods and styles of making a living from an insider perspective. While Indonesia has experienced steady economic growth for more than a decade, the livelihoods and lifestyles of poor people and migrants confronted with poverty and insecurity have received less attention. This book describes and analyses diversity in livelihood strategies, risk-taking and local forms of social security (social welfare) of people living below or close to the Indonesian poverty line. It puts two categories of forgotten people at the centre. Peasants, living in remote areas in rural Java, and Madurese migrants craving for a better life in urban and rural East Kalimantan. A full text Open Access version is also available.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

A Baseline of Desire: Rural Livelihoods, Inequality and Social Mobility

Bonds of Protection; Structures of Exclusion: Social Security in East Java

Styles Matter: Coherent Diversity in Livelihood and Social Security

Risk Taking: Sex, Gambling and Power

Badlands: Madurese Livelihoods in East Kalimantan

Experiences of Violence

Risk, Illegality and the State in Kalimantan

Conclusion: Forgotten people?: Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode

ISBN:

90-04-28298-X

OCLC:

897378788

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004282988 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access