On track. Spontaneous privatization of public urban land in Bandung, Indonesia
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On track. Spontaneous privatization of public urban land in Bandung, Indonesia. / Nurman, Ari; Lund, Christian.
In: South East Asia Research, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2016, p. 41-60.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - On track. Spontaneous privatization of public urban land in Bandung, Indonesia
AU - Nurman, Ari
AU - Lund, Christian
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The history of land control in Indonesia is overwhelmingly one of colonial conquest, government enclosure and expropriation of traditional property rights. However, beneath these great transformations, counter-currents also flow. Encroachment on state land and its gradual privatization by ordinary people sometimes gnaw at government property. Through a series of small, sometimes innocuous actions, people manage to undo the previous ownership regime. This article shows how settlers over a period of some 30 years – through a strategic mixture of civic disobedience and civic compliance – managed to appropriate, formalize and effectively privatize land belonging to the stateowned railway company in the city of Bandung. The authors argue that disobedient occupation and subsequent obedient payment of taxes, documentation of residence and 'normalization' of the area have reduced the company's ownership to thin formality, whereas new residents hold all the substantial elements of property rights to the land.
AB - The history of land control in Indonesia is overwhelmingly one of colonial conquest, government enclosure and expropriation of traditional property rights. However, beneath these great transformations, counter-currents also flow. Encroachment on state land and its gradual privatization by ordinary people sometimes gnaw at government property. Through a series of small, sometimes innocuous actions, people manage to undo the previous ownership regime. This article shows how settlers over a period of some 30 years – through a strategic mixture of civic disobedience and civic compliance – managed to appropriate, formalize and effectively privatize land belonging to the stateowned railway company in the city of Bandung. The authors argue that disobedient occupation and subsequent obedient payment of taxes, documentation of residence and 'normalization' of the area have reduced the company's ownership to thin formality, whereas new residents hold all the substantial elements of property rights to the land.
U2 - 10.5367/sear.2016.0296
DO - 10.5367/sear.2016.0296
M3 - Journal article
VL - 24
SP - 41
EP - 60
JO - South East Asia Research
JF - South East Asia Research
SN - 0967-828X
IS - 1
ER -
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