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    Governing Urban Indonesia
    Governing Urban Indonesia
    Governing Urban Indonesia
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    Governing Urban Indonesia

    By Edward Aspinall

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherISEAS
    Release dateAug 28, 2024
    ISBN9789815203714
    Governing Urban Indonesia
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    Edward Aspinall

    Francoise N. Hamlin is the Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Brown University.

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