Who are the Orang Riau? Negotiating Identity across Geographic and Ethnic Divides
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Ford, MicheleAbstract
Debates about identity have multiplied across Indonesia in the wake of the implementation of regional autonomy. In the ethnically heterogeneous province of Riau, identity is prominent in the public debate and pivotal to struggles over the distribution of resources and questions of ...
See moreDebates about identity have multiplied across Indonesia in the wake of the implementation of regional autonomy. In the ethnically heterogeneous province of Riau, identity is prominent in the public debate and pivotal to struggles over the distribution of resources and questions of political allegiance. This chapter examines the extent to which these public discourses of identity are reflected at the grassroots level, drawing from my own experiences as an intermittent member of a non-Malay Riau household, and on data from semi-structured interviews conducted in June 2002 with community leaders and 40 other people from a range of social and ethnic backgrounds.
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See moreDebates about identity have multiplied across Indonesia in the wake of the implementation of regional autonomy. In the ethnically heterogeneous province of Riau, identity is prominent in the public debate and pivotal to struggles over the distribution of resources and questions of political allegiance. This chapter examines the extent to which these public discourses of identity are reflected at the grassroots level, drawing from my own experiences as an intermittent member of a non-Malay Riau household, and on data from semi-structured interviews conducted in June 2002 with community leaders and 40 other people from a range of social and ethnic backgrounds.
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2003-01-01Publisher
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak InstituteLicence
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Who are the Orang Riau? Negotiating Identity across Geographic and Ethnic Divides by Michele Ford, Chapter 9, Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation & Democratisation edited by Edward Aspinall and Greg Fealy, 2003, pp. 132 – 147. This article is reproduced here with the kind permission of the publisher ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, https://bookshop.iseas.edu.agFaculty/School
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Ford, M. (2003). Who are the Orang Riau? Negotiating Identity Across Geographic and Ethnic Divides. In Aspinall and Fealy (Eds.), Local Power and Politics In Indonesia: Decentralisation and Democratisation, (pp. 132-147). Singapore: ISEAS Publishing (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies).Share