Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Klinken, Gerry <<van>>

Titel

The Making of middle Indonesia : middle classes in Kupang town, 1930s-1980s

Ist Teil von

• Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
• Power and place in Southeast Asia

Ort / Verlag

[Place of publication not identified] : Brill

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-296) and index
• Some hidden strength -- A historical synthesis -- A researcher's notes -- Betting on the Rajas (1930s) -- Elite brokers (1934-1950) -- Authority (1950s-1970s) -- The gatekeeper (1950s-1970s) -- The making of middle Indonesia (1962-1965)
• What holds Indonesia together? 'A strong leader' is the answer most often given. This book looks instead at a middle level of society. Middle classes in provincial towns around the vast archipelago mediate between the state and society and help to constitute state power. 'Middle Indonesia' is a social zone connecting extremes. This book examines the rise of an indigenous middle class in one provincial town far removed from the capital city. Spanning the late colonial to early New Order periods, it develops an unusual, associational notion of political power. 'Soft' modalities of power included non-elite provincial people in the emerging Indonesian state. At the same time, growing inequalities produced class tensions that exploded in violence in 1965-1966