Identity-Based Administrative Involution in Indonesia: How Political Actors and Community Figures Do It?

Erond L. Damanik

SAGE Open, 2020, vol. 10, issue 4, 2158244020974015

Abstract: The article aims to explore and discuss administrative involution in the context of the establishment of autonomous regions in Indonesia. The problem focuses on the role of actors to consolidate identities as a strategy of cleavage and the emergence of provinces. The study compares four cases of provincial cleavage in Sumatra, where two provinces have been formed, Bangka Belitung and Riau Islands, as well as two pending provinces of Tapanuli and Nias Islands. Data were collected through in-depth, personal interviews and self-report measures. The study refers to the constructive identity paradigm. Administrative involution, the findings of this study, is a product of ethnic politics that consolidates identity, determines the main political actors and categories, and changes its particular characteristics into a significant predictor of self-esteem for power-sharing. Administrative involution, the conclusion of the study, is an actor’s game of dividing the province, the power-sharing mechanism.

Keywords: administrative; cleavages; consolidation; identity; involution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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