Under Construction ：The Politics of Urban Space and Housing during the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1930-1960 ( Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde )

Publication subTitle ：The Politics of Urban Space and Housing during the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1930-1960

Publication series ：Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

Author： Colombijn   Freek  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9789004263932

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004258648

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004258648

Subject： B82 Ethics ( Moral Philosophy )

Language： ENG

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Colombijn examines the social changes in Indonesian cities during the process of decolonization. That process had major repercussions for urban society. These social changes are studied from the angle of urban space in general, and the provision of housing in particular. This provides fresh insight into how people experienced decolonization. Published in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute of War Documentation (NIOD).Originally published with imprint KITLV (ISBN 9789067182911).

Chapter

Under Construction

pp.：  3 – 3

Copyright

pp.：  4 – 4

Contents

pp.：  5 – 8

Abbreviations

pp.：  9 – 9

List of figures and tables

pp.：  10 – 12

Preface

pp.：  13 – 16

I. Introduction

pp.：  17 – 44

Decolonization

pp.：  22 – 28

Urban space and ethnicity

pp.：  29 – 34

Housing

pp.：  35 – 36

Methodology

pp.：  37 – 39

Six portraits, one story

pp.：  40 – 41

Conclusion

pp.：  42 – 44

II. A political and spatial history of Indonesian cities

pp.：  45 – 86

The Dutch colonial period

pp.：  46 – 51

The Japanese period

pp.：  52 – 61

The Indonesian Revolution

pp.：  62 – 69

The postcolonial democratic experiment

pp.：  70 – 80

Runaway urbanization

pp.：  81 – 84

Conclusion

pp.：  85 – 86

PART ONE URBAN SPACE: RACE AND SOCIAL CLASS

pp.：  87 – 196

III. Race, class, and spatial segregation

pp.：  89 – 118

Ethnic divisions in colonial times

pp.：  93 – 97

The case for racial segregation

pp.：  98 – 100

Social class divisions

pp.：  101 – 107

The housing market

pp.：  108 – 111

Race, social class and spatial segregation

pp.：  112 – 112

Live histories

pp.：  113 – 116

Conclusion

pp.：  117 – 118

IV. Life in the kampongs

pp.：  119 – 156

Kampongs: chaos or order

pp.：  120 – 126

Living conditions in kampongs

pp.：  127 – 132

Social composition of kampongs

pp.：  133 – 138

Indigenous and European types of houses

pp.：  139 – 148

Urban planning

pp.：  149 – 153

Conclusion

pp.：  154 – 156

V. Land tenure

pp.：  157 – 196

Formal and informal forms of ownership

pp.：  159 – 171

Local diversity and spatial patterns of land tenure

pp.：  172 – 179

Insecurity of land tenure during decolonization

pp.：  180 – 192

Conclusion

pp.：  193 – 196

PART TWO HOUSING: INSECURITY AND OPPORTUNITY

pp.：  197 – 428

VI. Housing in the kampong; The contest between dwellers and the government

pp.：  199 – 244

Strategies of kampong improvement

pp.：  200 – 209

Boon or burden of kampong improvement

pp.：  210 – 214

The size of the investments

pp.：  215 – 222

Squatting: the spread of mushrooms in the wet season

pp.：  223 – 226

1950-1954: ad hoc moves against squatters

pp.：  227 – 230

1954-1956: concerted actions

pp.：  231 – 236

After 1956: facing the facts

pp.：  237 – 239

Conclusion

pp.：  240 – 244

VII. The housing crisis during the years of turmoil

pp.：  245 – 292

Housing shortages

pp.：  247 – 256

The crisis in Jakarta

pp.：  257 – 264

Tensions between the Army and the civil government

pp.：  265 – 268

Tensions between the civil government and private property owners

pp.：  269 – 273

Tensions between corporate enterprise, the military, and the state

pp.：  274 – 278

The Housing Allocation Bureaus

pp.：  279 – 288

Conclusion

pp.：  289 – 292

VIII. Post-war reconstruction and the recommencement of urban planning

pp.：  293 – 326

A Japanese-Indonesian think-tank

pp.：  295 – 296

Reconstruction of eastern Indonesia

pp.：  297 – 303

Post-war urban planning

pp.：  304 – 312

Kebayoran Baru

pp.：  313 – 322

Conclusion

pp.：  323 – 326

IX. Construction; Public housing and the private sector

pp.：  327 – 370

The building sector

pp.：  329 – 332

Real-estate developers

pp.：  333 – 335

Company housing

pp.：  336 – 337

Private house owners

pp.：  338 – 340

Public housing in colonial times

pp.：  341 – 348

The end of the NV Volkshuisvesting corporations

pp.：  349 – 351

Public housing in independent times

pp.：  352 – 358

The balance sheet of public housing in the 1950s

pp.：  359 – 363

The rise of the concept of self-help housing

pp.：  364 – 367

Conclusion

pp.：  368 – 370

X. Strategies of landlords and tenants

pp.：  371 – 408

The composition of the rental sector

pp.：  372 – 378

Housing agencies

pp.：  379 – 383

How landlords and tenants reacted to fluctuations on the rental market

pp.：  384 – 388

The rental market after 1945

pp.：  389 – 394

The Rent Tribunals

pp.：  395 – 399

Forum shopping

pp.：  400 – 403

Conclusion

pp.：  404 – 408

XI. Conclusion

pp.：  409 – 428

A landscape of chaos

pp.：  409 – 411

‘Race’ and class

pp.：  412 – 417

Becoming a developing state

pp.：  418 – 420

Three ugly legacies of the housing crisis

pp.：  421 – 422

Surviving the chaos

pp.：  423 – 424

National integration

pp.：  425 – 426

The politics of housing during the long decolonization

pp.：  427 – 428

Appendix 1. Population figures of Indonesia’s major cities

pp.：  429 – 432

Bibliography

pp.：  433 – 478

Index

pp.：  479 – 496

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