Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Tables and figures
- 1 Conflict, civil war and underdevelopment
- 2 Revisiting the greed and grievance explanations for violent conflict
- 3 Greed, grievance and globalization
- 4 Economic dimensions of the liberal peace and its implications for conflict in developing countries
- 5 Enforcing peace agreements through commitment technologies
- 6 The conflict–growth nexus and the poverty of nations
- 7 Conflict and fiscal capacity
- 8 Does civil war hamper financial development?
- 9 The clash of civilizations and the interaction between fear and hatred
- 10 Transnational terrorism as a spillover of domestic disputes in other countries
- 11 Quantitative restrictions on the flow of narcotics: supply and demand restraints in a North–South macro-model
- 12 Spatial-horizontal inequality and the Maoist conflict in Nepal
- 13 Socioeconomic determinants of everyday violence in Indonesia: an empirical investigation of Javanese districts, 1994–2003
- 14 Not loving thy neighbour as thyself: trade, democracy and military expenditure explanations underlying India–Pakistan rivalry
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
13 - Socioeconomic determinants of everyday violence in Indonesia: an empirical investigation of Javanese districts, 1994–2003
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Tables and figures
- 1 Conflict, civil war and underdevelopment
- 2 Revisiting the greed and grievance explanations for violent conflict
- 3 Greed, grievance and globalization
- 4 Economic dimensions of the liberal peace and its implications for conflict in developing countries
- 5 Enforcing peace agreements through commitment technologies
- 6 The conflict–growth nexus and the poverty of nations
- 7 Conflict and fiscal capacity
- 8 Does civil war hamper financial development?
- 9 The clash of civilizations and the interaction between fear and hatred
- 10 Transnational terrorism as a spillover of domestic disputes in other countries
- 11 Quantitative restrictions on the flow of narcotics: supply and demand restraints in a North–South macro-model
- 12 Spatial-horizontal inequality and the Maoist conflict in Nepal
- 13 Socioeconomic determinants of everyday violence in Indonesia: an empirical investigation of Javanese districts, 1994–2003
- 14 Not loving thy neighbour as thyself: trade, democracy and military expenditure explanations underlying India–Pakistan rivalry
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Social conflict and violence has entered the development discourse in Indonesia. The country's deep economic crisis and the subsequent democratic transition in late 1990s were marked by a significant eruption of violent conflict of various types. Deep social divisions within Indonesian society have been an inseparable part of the crisis and transition itself. In this regard, rebuilding the economy and restoring people's welfare has to be multi-faceted in nature. Therefore, economic development is required not only for its own sake, but also as a tool for preventing and reducing social violence. Therefore, it is imperative to investigate the link between violent social conflict and socio-economic variables to get a better understanding of socio-economic explanations for conflict. However, it seems that the empirical literature on the socio-economic determinants of violent conflict are dominated by studies which focus on the most high profile form of violence, i.e., civil war, and most of them apply a cross-country type of analysis. Only a few studies examine civil war by employing cross-sectional analysis within a single country. However, recent developments in this area of research show the emergence of new studies that employ cross-section empirical analysis within a single country, not only on civil war, but on other forms of social violence, such as civil unrest, ethno-communal violence, etc.
This study deals with the socio-economic origins of a low profile form of violence in Java, Indonesia. It is referred to as ‘everyday’ or ‘routine’ social violence, centred on vigilante violence/popular justice and inter-group/neighbourhood brawls. Routine violence covers group or collective violence, and it is different from individual violence, domestic violence, or homicide – which can simply be labelled as crime. So far, the focus on conflict and violence in Indonesia has been disproportionately directed to higher profile episodic kinds of incidents, which exclusively take place in the form of ethno-communal and separatist violence. There is, however, another form of social violence, a low profile routine kind that rarely produces headlines. These are not reported beyond the local newspapers, unless they turn ugly. If the ‘episodic’ violence is highly concentrated in few regions outside Java, the ‘routine’ type is common to almost all districts in the island of Java.
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- Essays on Civil War, Inequality and Underdevelopment , pp. 213 - 242Publisher: Agenda PublishingPrint publication year: 2021