Abstract
The article begins by examining the integration of the dukun bayi (traditional midwives) into biomedical health services a process that reveals the adaptiveness and also the limits of biopower in the realm of Javanese birthing. Considering the recent wave of Islamic growth I discuss how the popularity of the jilbab reflects changing ideas about gender and sexuality in the post-Suharto period and creates new possibilities for bidan identity. Finally I look at the moral piety of jilbab-wearing bidan as part of a transition toward a form of Islam that opposes the West but embraces modern power in its particularly Indonesian form. Even though biopower in Indonesia may derive from European colonial strategies of rule it is now bound to the local nodes of authority knowledge and morality that made its exercise possible. (excerpt)
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