The state in Indonesian villages : authority, autonomy and apparatus
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The state in Indonesian villages : authority, autonomy and apparatus
(Working papers / Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 131)
Monash University Press, c2009
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
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  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
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  Ehime
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  Okinawa
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-33)
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Studies of Indonesia have characterized the state as all-powerful and overbearing, and as dominating society. This working paper offers a critique of the idea that local representatives are simply agents of their state superiors by viewing interactions between the state and the local community from 'below.' Drawing on research into the killings of alleged sorcerers in the Banyuwangi District of East Java, Dr. Nicholas Herriman demonstrates that state power in Banyuwangi is negotiated, and that local state officials negotiate with, and are influenced by, local residents.
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