Abstract
This paper attempts to understand modernisation risk politics under Indonesias’ democratisation in post-reform era. It endeavors to identify the politics of knowledge between civil society, academics, private companies, and government in defining and minimising modernisation risks, or in managing manufactured-uncertainties, under democratic regime. This paper argues that highlighting welfare issues in Indonesias’ democratisation is insufficient as welfare distributions, characterised by Indonesias’ effort to conduct modernisation specifically in development sector, are at the same time producing a high amount of manufactured-risk which is lack in number of analysis. The fundamental differences between welfare and risks results in distinctive characteristics of democratisation that the actors have to face. Informed by the notion of risk society by Ulrich Beck (1992) and transformative approach to democratisation (Harris et.al., 2004; Tornquist et.al., 2009), risk politics are best understood and conducted under the lens of transformative democratic politics—an approach that equally recognise the importance of democratic institutions as well as actors’ will and capacity to posit themselves in the structure and to make use of demoratic institution in creating a more prosperous life. This paper uses qualitative method to assess the construction of New Yogyakarta International Airport (2011-2017) in Kulon Progo as a case study.
Highlights
Issues of unequal access to affordable, safe, and sustainable water continue to characterise the distribution of welfare in Indonesia
The production and export of palm oil—in the forms of Crude Palm Oil (CPO), Palm Kernel Oil (PKO), oleochemical, and biodiesel—for example, showed positive growth between July and August 2018, with monthly volume hitting a record of 3.22 million tonnes; this was a 27% rise from the 2.54 million tonnes produced in July 2017 (Indonesian Palm Oil, 2018)
As for actors, the configuration of stakeholders considered ‘relevant’ to participate, involve, and craft solutions is different for each dispositif
Summary
Issues of unequal access to affordable, safe, and sustainable water continue to characterise the distribution of welfare in Indonesia. Mainstreaming Modernisation Risk Politics in Indonesia’s Democratisation: Towards Public Control of Welfare and Risk in Expanding Water Access settings that organise risk politics empirically (Beck, 2000) This departs from the assumption that the more objective and less calculable risk appears, the more its reality depends on its cultural perceptions in specific contexts. Two important kinds of power are put into effect: the power of knowledge of the truth, in the form of discourse and rationality, and the power to Mainstreaming Modernisation Risk Politics in Indonesia’s Democratisation: Towards Public Control of Welfare and Risk in Expanding Water Access disseminate this knowledge, in the form of specific technologies. This is clear, as governments addresses the dimensions of history composed by the invention, contestation, operationalisation, and transformation of more or less rationalised schemes, programmes, techniques, and devices that seek to shape conduct so as to achieve certain ends; to govern is to presuppose the freedom of the governed, to acknowledge their capacity to act and to utilise it for one’s own objectives (Rose, 2004)
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