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Theme: 3. Prosperity, the Pains of Growth and its Governance
Muhammad Syukri
The SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia
Greg Acciaioli
The University of Western Australia, Australia
Riwanto Tirtosudarmo
independent researcher, Indonesia
Riwanto Tirtosudarmo
independent researcher, Indonesia
Muhammad Syukri
The SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia
Greg Acciaioli
The University of Western Australia, Australia
Riwanto Tirtosudarmo
independent researcher, Indonesia
Daya Negri Wijaya
Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia
This proposed panel endeavours to engage with the dynamics of marginalisation processes and their effects upon the social, economic and political life of Southeast Asia. The five papers proposed for this panel focus their attention upon various cases where different types of marginal groups have been subjugated and relegated to the margins by various forms of social, political and economic processes. The first paper, by Riwanto Tirtosudarmo, lays out a general analytic for marginalization processes and applies it to the Papuan people. This paper argues that understanding the dynamic relation between marginalisation and the politics of resistance critically requires a re-reading of the history of the process of decolonization from the Dutch and the process of integration within Indonesia . The second paper, by Nila Warda et al., brings the Papuans into the centre stage by elaborating the concept of Orang Asli Papua, delving into their marginal characteristics using a mix of statistical data analysis of secondary data and qualitative research. This paper argues that due to multidimensional marginalized aspects, the Orang Asli Papua need full support from the Indonesian state by employing a model of adaptive social protection. The third paper, by Ridwan al-Makassary, provides a comparative analysis of the Papuan people, with a special focus on the Muslim minority, with the Muslim Malay minority in Southern Thailand. The fourth paper, by Muhammad Syukri et al., discusses the Indonesian government’s effort to respond to the dominant discourse of climate change by progressively developing marine protected areas (MPA). Comparing three different MPAs, the paper contends that the development of MPAs in Indonesia has ignored the poor and other marginalised people around them. The last paper, by Greg Acciaioli, also places attention on the marine context in the area by comparing the situation of the Bajau as mobile marine communities in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia with regard to such processes as ethnogenesis, sedentarisation, participation in Indigenous movements, economic complementarity, and the impact of state policies concerning both marine protected areas and citizenship/statelessness.
Covering research areas in all the states of archipelagic Southeast Asia and southern peninsular Thailand as well, the papers draw attention to processes of how indigenous people, the poor and minority religious groups have been marginalised by various social and political processes that impede their access to adequate services, equitable resource distribution, and meaningful political participation.
Presenter: Muhammad Syukri – The SMERU Research Institute
Presenter: Greg Acciaioli – The University of Western Australia
Presenter: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo – independent researcher
Presenter: Daya Negri Wijaya – Universitas Negeri Malang