Departing from Java to Lampung: Locating Javanese Diasporic Practices in Indonesia’s Transmigration Resettlement Programme

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    Abstract

    This chapter traces the origins, practices and socio-cultural dynamics of Indonesia’s internal ‘Javanese’ diaspora, focusing on resettlement from Java to the southern Sumatran province of Lampung. It draws on historical and popular textual sources, together with more contemporary ethnographic research undertaken in a transmigration settlement founded in the early 1980s. In excavating the cultural politics of this particular aspect of the Javanese diaspora, the chapter focuses on the interplay between a changing political culture and everyday practices of identity, as the latter are expressed through discourses and practices around land use and livelihood.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDeparting from Java
    Subtitle of host publicationJavanese Labour, Migration and Diaspora
    EditorsRosemarijn Hoefte, Peter Meel
    Place of PublicationCopenhagen
    PublisherNIAS Press
    Pages27-53
    Number of pages26
    ISBN (Print)9788776942458
    Publication statusPublished - 2018

    Publication series

    NameNIAS Studies in Asian Topics
    PublisherNIAS Press
    Number66

    Keywords

    • diaspora
    • Javanese
    • transmigration
    • migration

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