National Culture, Local Concerns: Debating Otonomi Daerah

This paper presents a cultural analysis of the autonomy debates of a certain intellectual elite in Jakarta, as reflected in the print media, who are challenging the cultural politics of the New Order regime. I discuss three aspects of the approach of various intellectuals to key areas in the autonom...

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Main Author: Jones, Tod
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Crawford House Publishing 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16040
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description This paper presents a cultural analysis of the autonomy debates of a certain intellectual elite in Jakarta, as reflected in the print media, who are challenging the cultural politics of the New Order regime. I discuss three aspects of the approach of various intellectuals to key areas in the autonomy debates, which come to embody challenges to New Order cultural politics. These areas are: national unity; relationship to the global economy; and the 'democratisation' of local politicians and officials.The first section of this paper discusses the circumstances that fashioned the autonomy laws. The second section develops an understanding of the New Order regime's 'national culture' and its relationship to the regime's administrative approach. The third section examines the use of the legislation by the intellectual elite to contest New Order cultural politics.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-160402017-05-30T07:59:54Z National Culture, Local Concerns: Debating Otonomi Daerah Jones, Tod New Order regime national unity Jakarta media freedom Indonesia global economy cultural politics autonomy debates national culture intellectual elite democratisation autonomy laws Habibe This paper presents a cultural analysis of the autonomy debates of a certain intellectual elite in Jakarta, as reflected in the print media, who are challenging the cultural politics of the New Order regime. I discuss three aspects of the approach of various intellectuals to key areas in the autonomy debates, which come to embody challenges to New Order cultural politics. These areas are: national unity; relationship to the global economy; and the 'democratisation' of local politicians and officials.The first section of this paper discusses the circumstances that fashioned the autonomy laws. The second section develops an understanding of the New Order regime's 'national culture' and its relationship to the regime's administrative approach. The third section examines the use of the legislation by the intellectual elite to contest New Order cultural politics. 2002 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16040 Crawford House Publishing restricted
spellingShingle New Order regime
national unity
Jakarta
media freedom
Indonesia
global economy
cultural politics
autonomy debates
national culture
intellectual elite
democratisation
autonomy laws
Habibe
Jones, Tod
National Culture, Local Concerns: Debating Otonomi Daerah
title National Culture, Local Concerns: Debating Otonomi Daerah
title_full National Culture, Local Concerns: Debating Otonomi Daerah
title_fullStr National Culture, Local Concerns: Debating Otonomi Daerah
title_full_unstemmed National Culture, Local Concerns: Debating Otonomi Daerah
title_short National Culture, Local Concerns: Debating Otonomi Daerah
title_sort national culture, local concerns: debating otonomi daerah
topic New Order regime
national unity
Jakarta
media freedom
Indonesia
global economy
cultural politics
autonomy debates
national culture
intellectual elite
democratisation
autonomy laws
Habibe
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16040