Territorial Change and Conflict in Indonesia - Confronting the Fear of Secession

This book focuses on Indonesia and investigates why competition between various identity-affiliated groups to claim a new province, increases conflict severity.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 The Arguments Behind Territorial Autonomy and Conflict
3 Methodology
4 The Quantitative Study: New Province Claim and Conflict
5 Bima: Messy Beginning, Yet a Promising End
6 Cirebon: Too Many Interests, Too Little Consensus
7 Tana Toraja: Myth and Culture that Keep Toraja’s People Together
8 Purwakarta: The Null Case
9 Connecting the Puzzle
Index

About the author

Ratri Istania is an Assistant Professor at NIPA Polytechnic School of Administration (Politeknik STIA-LAN Jakarta) and Senior Researcher at Populi Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research, Jakarta, Indonesia. The preparation for this book was conducted while she was a Postgraduate Research Fellow and Part-time Faculty Member in the Political Science Department at Loyola University Chicago, USA.

Summary

This book focuses on Indonesia and investigates why competition between various identity-affiliated groups to claim a new province, increases conflict severity.

Product details

• Authors: Ratri Istania, Ratri (Nipa Polytechnic School of Adminis Istania
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032220567
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3222056-7
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Political Geography, Regional / International studies, Indonesia, Regional Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General