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9789815203714 Academic Inspection Copy

Governing Urban Indonesia

  • ISBN-13: 9789815203714
  • Publisher: ISEAS
    Imprint: ISEAS
  • Edited by Edward Aspinall, Other Amalinda Savirani
  • Price: AUD $104.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 02/01/2025
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 639 pages Weight: 458g
  • Categories: Urban communities [JFSG]
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Indonesia has become a majority urban society. Despite the classic images of rice fields, volcanoes and rural life we often associate with the country, now almost 60 per cent of Indonesia's people live in cities, towns, suburbs, gated communities and other urban areas. Urbanisation has brought with it a familiar range of problems, including some of the worst traffic jams and air pollution in the world, housing scarcity, periodic flooding and dramatic land subsidence. These problems pose massive challenges to Indonesian governments as they try to provide clean water, public transport, housing, garbage disposal and other services to urban dwellers. Governing Urban Indonesia brings together scholars and practitioners with diverse backgrounds to examine how urbanisation is remaking Indonesia, and how governments are responding. It focuses on how varied political patterns are shaping urban governance, enabling some cities to pioneer improved service delivery and better public amenities for their citizens, while others stagnate. And it brings to bear multiple perspectives on how historical legacies, changing residential patterns, social inequality and myriad other factors are combining to produce a new social and political landscape across urban Indonesia.
Edward Aspinall, Professor, Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University
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