Why is the Bad Legacy of Colonialism Kept Alive?
KITLV researcher Ward Berenschot on oil palm land conflicts and Indonesia’s informal politics that benefits the economic elites.
Abdul Manan
August 7, 2023
WARD Berenschot, professor of comparative political anthropology with the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has twice conducted in-depth studies on Indonesia. The first study done in 2012 was about Indonesia’s contemporary politics. With Edward Aspinall, a political professor from the Australian National University, Berenschot published the findings in a book titled Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism and the State in Indo
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