Land-Use Change Conflicts and Anti-Corporate Activism in Indonesia: A Review Essay

IF 1.2 3区 社会学 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Journal of East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.1017/jea.2022.12
Afrizal, W. Berenschot
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Abstract While processes of land-use change have triggered conflicts across Asia, our knowledge of the responses of affected communities is largely based on case-studies. This review essay addresses this challenge by reviewing and synthesizing 49 studies of conflicts between rural communities and companies in order to identify salient characteristics of anti-corporate activism in Indonesia. We find that, in contrast to the ‘rightful resistance’ observed elsewhere, the strategies employed by rural communities in Indonesia are remarkably “rightless” as both their discourse and their conflict resolution efforts are marked by a remarkable irrelevance of laws, regulations and courts. Communities frame their claims mostly in terms of customary laws while largely relying on informal mediation by local authorities. We attribute this “rightless” character of land-use change conflicts to the weak legal protection of land rights in Indonesia and the relative powerlessness of communities in the face of collusion between authorities and companies.
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印尼土地利用变化冲突与反企业活动:综述
虽然土地利用变化的过程引发了亚洲各地的冲突,但我们对受影响社区的反应的了解主要基于案例研究。这篇评论文章通过回顾和综合49项关于农村社区和公司之间冲突的研究来解决这一挑战,以确定印度尼西亚反公司行动主义的显著特征。我们发现,与其他地方观察到的“正当抵抗”相比,印度尼西亚农村社区采用的策略明显是“无权利的”,因为他们的话语和解决冲突的努力都与法律、法规和法院明显无关。社区主要根据习惯法提出要求,同时主要依靠地方当局的非正式调解。我们将土地使用变化冲突的这种“无权利”特征归因于印度尼西亚对土地权利的法律保护不力,以及社区在面对当局和公司之间的勾结时相对无能为力。
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