Abstract
Author(s): Alam, Meredian; Nilan, Pam; Leahy, Terry | Abstract: This paper traces the onto-genesis of a specific environmental campaign in Indonesia. A highly effective struggle to save the local city forest was instigated by young activists in Bandung who had previously been involved with Greenpeace Indonesia. The data comes from interviews, a focus group and ethnographic fieldwork. The paper illustrates the point that when youth get involved in a highly structured environmental protest movement like Greenpeace, the skills, network resources and confidence they gain there can later be deployed to great advantage in a local conservation campaign. That phenomenon can be understood using the notion of radical habitus derived from the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu. Keywords: youth, activism, radical habitus, Greenpeace
Highlights
Indonesia is a middle-income developing country in Southeast Asia that only became a full democracy in 1999
Backsilmove activists took the values they learned in Greenpeace regarding environmental activism and re-activated them, in their public, space-based repertoire
Their left-leaning immersion in Greenpeace activism served as an effective social learning tool that later helped them to constitute a novel environmental movement
Summary
Indonesia is a middle-income developing country in Southeast Asia that only became a full democracy in 1999. The environmental movement had been tolerated during the previous three decades of authoritarian rule After 1999, environmental lobby groups and Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) stepped up political demands for change (Peluso, Afiff, & Fauzi Rachman, 2008). Indonesia is a ‘forest-rich’ nation with a long history of dispossession of forest areas for the sake of ‘development’ (Di Gregorio, 2014). It is not surprising that in the new millennium the country is characterized by a multi-faceted environmental justice movement fighting for recognition of local forest rights (Nomura, 2009; Peluso et al, 2008). As Della Porta and Fabbri point out, ‘local contentious politics tend to make frequent references to the ways in which territory is used and misused’ The use of territory very often constitutes the stakes of the struggle
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