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- Title: Muhammadiyah, Local Politics and Local Identity in Kotagede (Research Notes and Comments)
- Author : SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 220 KB
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This article is based on two research field trips I made to Kotagede, Indonesia, in 2005. (1) My long-term research plan is to document the political ethnography of Kotagede during the post-Soeharto period, exploring the interplay between local politics and local identity in the era of decentralization and paying attention to the significance of Muhammadiyah and the role of local actors in Kotagede. Here I will offer some thoughts on the directions this study will take. The importance of studying local politics in Indonesia in the era of decentralization cannot be overemphasized. Scholars have been debating the ramifications of the decentralization policies adopted in the post-Soeharto period. Generally they agree that the ways in which local communities have responded to decentralization have varied between the regions (Aspinall and Fealy 2003; Kingsbury and Aveling 2003; Erb, Sulistiyanto and Faucher 2005). In the Soeharto period, the relationship between local politics and religion was shaped by a centralistic political structure. Since the fall of Soeharto in 1998, the regions have had to think more for themselves and find their own ways of dealing with local issues. Maintaining local identity has become an important issue in the regions in the era of decentralization in Indonesia.