Riset Internasional ‘Politics of Indigenity: Popular movement in Post Reform Indonesia’. Studi ini mengkaji gerakan politik masyarakat adat di 3 propinsi dengan karakteristik berbeda (Aceh, Maluku dan Nusa Tenggara Timur). Gerakan politik masyarakat adat merupakan bagian dari upaya masyarakat pertanian suburban sebagai kelompok warga negara aktif bernegosiasi dengan rezim pembangunan kabupaten, propinsi dan pusat. Kerjasama Fispol UGM dan University of Queensland, Australia.
Produk Kegiatan: Laporan Penelitian, Artikel Jurnal, Jaringan Advokasi
Frans Djalong: Peneliti Utama
Periode: 2015
Lokasi: Aceh, Maluku Utara dan Nusa Tenggara Timur
Beyond Liberal Politics of Recognition: Bringing Indigenous Rights Movements into Democratic Framework of Public Policy
Comparative Studies of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Aceh, Maluku and East Nusa Tenggara Provinces
Abstract
Indigenous Rights Movement (IRM) has proliferated in Indonesian regions in the last decade as the consequence of diversifying and pluralizing of social life brought about by democratization. However, the movements are still relatively isolated in their interests, right claims, and local tradition, without much connection with a broader arena of democratic activity. Therefore, they still have a limited impact to alter their life chances against exclusionary policy impacts brought by state policy and extractive business activities. This study examines the political agency of the movement including civil society organizations and political party leaders representing and advocating claims and demands of the movement in the arena of public policy. By comparing three cases of the indigenous rights movement in post-conflict areas of Aceh and Maluku and in West Nusa Tenggara where the movement is strengthened under decentralization, this study elaborates the nature of the indigenous rights movement, their particularities and diversities, their problems and challenges in dealing with state policies and private business, and opportunities for integrating these movements into broader democratic movements at the national, regional and global level. This study finds first that the articulation of indigeneity reveals the limit of both development and democracy practices framed by the decentralization policy. As a consequence, indigeneity politics enables the disfranchised to rearticulate problems of welfare distribution and recognition in each region. Second, indigeneity signifies different meanings as attempt to overcome crisis respective to each region’s local characteristics. In Aceh, indigeneity politics sets out to contrast their demands in comparison with the ‘others’ in order to shed light the existing exlusionary policy of post-conflict development and democratization. In Ambon, indigeneity is being revived again to unify different groups’ interests post-conflict period. And in East Nusa Tenggara, indigeneity becomes the site of contestation of state and non-state actors in claiming, constituting and representing the citizens’ aspirations.