Nine Tenths Of The Law Enduring Dispossession In Indonesia Christian Lund by Christian Lund instant download after payment.

Property and citizenship constitute a very dynamic field, and treating rights and authorities as a fi nished product gets in the way of understanding them. They are always in the making. Moreover, rights and public authority are mutually constitutive and contingent. When an institution authorizes, sanctions, or validates certain rights, the respect or observance of these rights simultaneously constitutes recognition of the authority of that particular institution. Authorization of rights claims works to authorize the authorizers, so to speak. The process perspective has implications for empirical focus and consequently for the methodological choices.
Struggles over land form the focus of this book. People who want a place to farm, to build a house, and to make a living face competition from plantation companies, government authorities, national parks, forest authorities, urban developers, and others who equally have designs on the space. The book maps out the signifi cant claimants in the cases of conflict and their fi elds of engagements with each other and with the ideas of land rights and law. Although violence is a big part of the confl icts, all actors also argue and legitimate their claims. Custom, established practice, need, and law are all mobilized to impress and convince the relevant public of the justice of the claims.
The research was done in three different regions of Indonesia: West Java, North Sumatra, and Aceh, each home to the capitalist frontier in Indonesia of the seventeenth, nineteenth, and twenty-first centuries, respectively. West Java and North Sumatra have long experienced frontier convulsions as property regimes and social orders altered at the bidding of world commodity markets. More recently, Aceh has entered the vortex of the oil palm boom with wide-reaching consequences. Despite their obvious differences, the three areas share violent agrarian struggles and ingenious forms of legalization. Together, the three areas also demonstrate that capitalist frontiers are not appointed moments that pass, but extended moments—if moments at all. The regional history also demonstrates that anyone engaging in land politics is in it for the long haul.