Extended Agrarian Question in Concessionary Capitalism: The Jakarta’s Kaum Miskin Kota

Bosman Batubara and Noer Fauzi Rachman

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, vol. 11, issue 2, 232-255

Abstract: This article reassesses agrarian questions by using the ongoing explosion in urban and urbanization theories to explain Jakarta’s urban poor (the Kaum Miskin Kota ) as an extended agrarian question. It shows how the two capitalist development trajectories identified by Lenin as the Russian and American paths, or the transformation of feudal large-scale and small landholders into capitalists, respectively, do not apply in Indonesia. In the latter, a “concessionary capitalism†of large-scale land claims and allocations by the state is observed. This specific process produces specific agrarian questions of soil/land and labor through which the urban poor germinated. It closes with a political project, that is, to open more alliance-building possibilities between urban and rural social movements.

Keywords: Extended agrarian question; urbanization; near-South; Indonesia; urban poor; concessionary capitalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/22779760221095121

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