FKP hosted by ANU Indonesia Project with Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (Independent Social Researcher; former researcher at LIPI between 1980-2017), Palmira Bachtiar (The SMERU Research Institute) and Turro Wongkaren (Demographic Institute, Universitas Indonesia). Kamis, 14 April 2022
Riwanto Tirtosudarmo discussed his book entitled “From colonization to nation-state: the political demography of Indonesia”. There are four parts of this book, each discussing different topics related to the political demography of Indonesia. The first part of the book talks about the demographic engineering and territorial integrity in Indonesia. In order to create (and recreate) the ideal imagined Indonesian, Indonesian elites use various policies, among others, transmigration. However, moving people around is not the same as trade or capital investment, and there are social issues in the destination area.
There are some parallels of challenges in political demography between the 20th century and the 21th century. These parallels include: demographic imbalance between “inner” and “outer” islands, between Java and other islands; the problem of economic inequality and social injustice between the limited few and the majority of the population; and the challenge of maintaining territorial integrity as centrifugal tendencies continually recurred.
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