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Political contestation, resource control and conservation in an era of decentralisation at I ndonesia's K erinci S eblat N ational P ark
Author(s) -
Bettinger Keith Andrew
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
asia pacific viewpoint
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.571
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8373
pISSN - 1360-7456
DOI - 10.1111/apv.12069
Subject(s) - decentralization , national park , politics , authoritarianism , contest , political science , government (linguistics) , thriving , democratization , public administration , political economy , economy , economic growth , development economics , geography , sociology , democracy , economics , law , social science , archaeology , linguistics , philosophy
Since the fall of long‐time strongman S uharto and his authoritarian ‘ N ew O rder’ government in 1998, I ndonesia has embarked upon a series of decentralisation and democratisation reforms. This new era of decentralised politics has come to be known as Reformasi and has significantly altered the political landscape of the archipelago as national and subnational levels of administration continue to contest the balance of power. I ndonesia's national parks, which remain under the authority of the national government, have become arenas for negotiated encounters between local resource users, aspiring district elites and the national government. This essay explores three legacies of incomplete and unfinished decentralisation as they related to national‐park‐based conservation, using S umatra's K erinci S eblat N ational P ark as a case study.