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Ropewalking and Safety Nets : Local Ways of Managing Insecurities in Indonesia

By Juliette Koning; Frans Hüsken

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2006
ISBN
9789047411482, 9789004154872
LCC
HN703.5.R67 2006
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1758581 bytes)
Series
Social Sciences in Asia Series
Edition
1
Pages
235\235
Time added
2023-08-08 23:38:42
SOC002000; SOC026000

Description

This volume discusses how national and local social security in Indonesia has changed over the past decades and in particular during the economic and political crisis of the late 20th and early 21st century. The contributions, based on case studies from urban and rural Java, focus on the evolution of existing formal and informal institutions providing social security and at the ways in which people create access to such institutions and develop strategies to handle insecurities. The main conclusion is that informal institutions providing support to those who need it, more and more tend to exclude the poor and weak sections of society, and that government policy in this field is only beginning to address these major social issues.

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