Ropewalking and safety nets :: local ways of managing insecurities in Indonesia /

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 o...

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Other Authors: Koning, Juliette, H?usken, Frans
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Series:Social sciences in Asia ; v. 12.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 224 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789047411482
904741148X
1281457876
9781281457875
9786611457877
6611457879
ISSN:1567-2794 ;

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