Papua's Insecurity: State Failure in the Indonesian Periphery - Softcover

Anderson, Bobby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 086638264X ISBN 13: 9780866382649

Verlag: EAST WEST CTR, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

West Papua is the most violent area of Indonesia. Indonesian security forces battle the country's last active separatist insurgency there. The majority of Indonesia's political prisoners are Papuans, and support for independence is widespread.

But military repression and indigenous resistance are only one part of a complex topography of insecurity in Papua: vigilantism, clan conflict, and other forms of horizontal violence produce more casualties than the vertical conflict that is often the exclusive focus of international accounts of contemporary Papua. Similarly, Papua's coerced incorporation into Indonesia in 1969 is not unique; it mirrors a pattern of long-term annexation found in other remote and highland areas of South and Southeast Asia. What distinguishes Papua is the near-total absence of the state in indigenous areas. This is the consequence of a morass of policy dysfunction over time that compounds the insecurity that ordinary Papuans face.

The author illuminates the diverse and local sources of insecurity that indicate too little state as opposed to too much, challenges common perceptions of insecurity in Papua, and offers a prescription of policy initiatives. These include the reform of a violent and unaccountable security sector as a part of a broader reconciliation process and the urgent need for a comprehensive indigenous-centered development policy.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: EAST WEST CTR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 086638264X
• ISBN 13: 9780866382649
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 92
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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