Exemplary Centre, Administrative Periphery: Rural Leadership and the New Order on Java (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) - Softcover

Antlov, Hans

 
9780700702930: Exemplary Centre, Administrative Periphery: Rural Leadership and the New Order on Java (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies)

Synopsis

Investigates the position of rural leaders and villages within the Indonesian nation-building process. It is the story of an exemplary village eventually caught up in cultural tensions characteristic not only of Indonesia but indeed of many authoritarian societies.

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Synopsis

After the New Order came to power in Indonesia in 1965, there followed a radical change in state policies toward rural areas. This book investigates the position of rural leaders and the increased presence of the State through a detailed community study of a village in west Java.

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