Ropewalking and safety nets : local ways of managing insecurities in Indonesia / edited by Juliette Koning and Frans H?usken.

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CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: SOCIAL SECURITY IN INDONESIA -- Frans H�sken and Juliette Koning -- CHAPTER TWO EXCLUSION, INCLUSION AND SOCIAL SECURITY IN CENTRAL JAVA -- Juliette Koning -- CHAPTER THREE HARVESTING AND HOUSEBUILDING: DECLINE AND PERSISTENCE OF RECIPROCAL LABOUR IN A JAVANESE VILLAGE, 1973�2000 -- Irwan Abdullah and Ben White -- CHAPTER FOUR PRECARIOUS SAFETY NETS: FAMILY SUPPORT FOR WIDOWS IN MALANG -- Ruly Marianti

CHAPTER FIVE SAFETY FIRST: STRATEGIES OF MANAGING INSECURITY AMONG CHINESE INDONESIANS IN YOGYAKARTA -- Andreas SusantoCHAPTER SIX MANAGING MONEY: URBAN SELF-HELP ORGANISATIONS IN YOGYAKARTA -- Hotze Lont -- CHAPTER SEVEN FISHERMEN AND FARMERS: ENTREPRENEURS IN RISKS, RESOURCES AND RESOURCE-RISKS? -- Juliette Koning -- CHAPTER EIGHT STYLES MATTER: LIVELIHOOD AND INSECURITY IN THE EAST JAVANESE UPLANDS -- Gerben Nooteboom -- REFERENCES -- GLOSSARY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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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