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Author
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Raden Barata Indrajaya
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Thesis Year
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2007 |
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Keywords
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social segregation, solidarity, unfair policy, authoritarian state, cultural diversity, communal conflict, vertical conflict, ethnic-religious revivalism, military intervention, national reconciliation
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This
study seeks primarily to elaborate the complex nature and
characteristics of social segregation in Indonesian pluralistic
society. The term social segregation does not draw its range of
meaning merely from sociological appropriation or understanding of
social realitym, but much more from discursive analytical perspective
as to highlight broader spectrum of its becoming in the long course
of two distintictive periods of New Order and the current post reform
regime. By employing social hermeunetical mode of analysing, this
paper brings to clearer light the multi-dimensional aspects of the
social segregation, ranging from the political factors up to the
inter-cultural dynamics particularly in the past three decades.
This
study then approaches to a set of tentative but illuminating remarks
on the phenomenon of social segregation, that, in most part, owes its
becoming to the constants but violent encounter between social class,
ethnic groups, political party, and, more importantly, between state
and society. Social segregation is completely inseparable from the
notion of the strikingly lack of solidarity, tolerance, mutual trust,
government's unfair policy, and the weak law enforcement. It
becomes a conceptual lens and social reality at once, which enables
us to fully grasp the interlink of factors constitutive to the
phomenona of vertical and horizontal conflict. This study ends with
some recommendation that should be immediately taken to deescalate it
from becoming as widespreading as extremely difficult to be resolved
in years ahead.
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