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Title: | Living with difference in rural Indonesia: What can be learned for national and regional political agendas? | Contributor(s): | Carnegie, Michelle (author) | Publication Date: | 2010 | DOI: | 10.1017/s0022463410000263 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21389 | Abstract: | Much research has sought to understand why mixed communities in Indonesia have been torn apart by violent conflict. By contrast, little is known about how people live together successfully in the mixed, low-conflict communities that exist in abundance throughout the Indonesian archipelago. This paper explores the inter-communal relations in the multiethnic, Christian-Muslim coastal village of Oelua in Roti, Nusa Tenggara Timur province. Mechanisms of agreement across ethnic, religious and livelihood differences have shaped and reproduced a low-conflict community - including transfers of land, labour, technology and surplus; use of customary law and conflict management; and social mixing and interpersonal relations. The findings suggest that there are lessons to be learned from communities like Oelua about how to foster social and economic inclusion, which could inform national and regional political agendas concerned with governing difference in a post-New Order Indonesia. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 41(3), p. 449-481 | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1474-0680 0022-4634 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160101 Anthropology of Development 229999 Philosophy and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified 169903 Studies of Asian Society |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society 950599 Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Environmental and Rural Science |
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