Ropewalking and Safety Nets : Local Ways of Managing Insecurities in Indonesia.
- 1st ed.
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- Social Sciences in Asia Series ; v.12 .
- Social Sciences in Asia Series .
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Between Two Worlds: Social Security in Indonesia -- Social Security: Genesis and Semantics of a Concept -- Social Networks, Social Capital and Reciprocity -- Reciprocity in Java -- This Volume -- Chapter 2: Exclusion, Inclusion and Social Security in Central Java -- Introduction -- Rikmokčri Village 1994 and 1998 -- Land: The Ongoing Importance of Paddy Cultivation -- Labour: Working the Land or Working in the City -- Securing Livelihood by Negotiating Access -- Times of Insecurity -- National Support Programmes, Local Outcomes -- Local Exchange -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3: Harvesting and Housebuilding: Decline and Persistence of Reciprocal Labour in a Javanese Village, 1973-2000 -- Introduction -- Agrarian Relations, Insecurity and 'GOTONG ROYONG' -- Kali Loro, 1973 and 2000 -- 'GOTONG ROYONG' and Cooperative Labour -- BAWON and TEBASAN: Elements of Reciprocity in Rice Cultivation -- Social Capital in Housing? Reciprocal Labour in Housebuilding and Repair, 1972-1973 and 1999 -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Precarious Safety Nets: Family Support for Widows in Malang -- Introduction -- From Insecurities to (Family) Support -- Aspects of Differentiation -- Economic Support -- Family Members as Providers of Economic Support -- Emotional Support -- Practical-Instrumental Support -- Access to Family Support -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 5: Safety First: Strategies of Managing Insecurity among Chinese Indonesians in Yogyakarta -- Introduction -- Anti-Chinese Outbreaks -- The Chinese in Yogyakarta -- A Brief History of the Relationship between Chinese and PRIBUMI Elites -- Feeling Insecure and Managing Insecurity -- Chinese Business People -- Buying Protection -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 6: Managing Money: Urban Self-Help Organisations in Yogyakarta -- Introduction. Bujung, a Place where Money Flows -- Direct Protection from Financial Self-help Organisations -- Managing Relations: Coping Based on Social Capital -- Reciprocity -- The Role of Financial SHOs -- Managing Money: Coping Based on Indirect Lump Sum Allocation -- Collateral for Loans -- A Kick-start to Savings . . . -- And Investment -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Fishermen and Farmers: Entrepreneurs in Risks, Resources and Resource-Risks? -- Introduction -- Karangrejo, an Agro-Fishing Community -- Living Off the Land -- Going to Sea -- The Village and Non-resource Related Risks During the Crisis -- The Village and the Crisis -- Non-resource Related Risks -- Risks and Resources in Karangrejo -- Fishing: Risk-Exposure and Risk-Arrangements -- Farming and Risks: A Family Affair -- Concluding Remarks: Risks and Resources During a Crisis -- Chapter 8: Styles Matter: Livelihood and Insecurity in the East Javanese Uplands -- Introduction -- The Research Area -- Styles: Balancing Livelihood and Insecurity -- Entrepreneurial People (Orang Bisnis) -- Money People (Orang Duit) -- 'Stingy People' (Orang Pelit) -- Village People (Orang Lugu) -- Sub-styles: Religious, Wayward, and Educated People -- Styles in Day-to-day Life -- The Norwana Business Family: 'Making Money by People' -- Patik ('Scrooge'): Rich and Stingy -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index -- SOCIAL SCIENCES IN ASIA.
In this volume, anthropologists and sociologists address the issue of changing forms of local social security in Indonesia, pointing to increasingly exclusivist tendencies that leave the poor and weak out. It provides rich data from cases studies in urban and rural Java.
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Social problems-Indonesia. Indonesia-Social conditions.