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Between Two Worlds: Modern State and Traditional Society in Indonesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Abstract

Indonesian political leaders in the mid-20th century attempted to create a new state founded both on the rule of law and on their understandings of traditional Indonesian communal life. They sought simultaneously to “advance” toward modernization and industrialization and to preserve older, village-level norms and values which they projected onto the national legal and political screen. This article examines the inconsistencies inherent in these twin aspirations and the continuing tensions, during a period of rapid growth and economic development, between rights-based conceptions and those based on an ideology of harmony and communal village life.

Type
Part I: Religion & Law
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 by The Law and Society Association.

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References

1 CN is a combination of “C” (for Cassa, the name of the Spanish company) and “N” for Nurtanio, the abbreviated name of the Indonesian aircraft industry—Industri Pesawat Terbang Nurtanio.