State and Society in a Post-Authoritarian Indonesian City - A Study of Liponsos Keputih Surabaya

Dini Nurul Ilmiah, Karnaji

2018

Abstract

This research examines the state and society relationship in the post-authoritarian era in Indonesia. Through the exploration of the Liponsoso Keputih, a shelter for people with social-welfare problems in Surabaya, this paper looks at the panopticon mechanism employed by the shelter and the forms of resistance carried out by the residents in order to understand the relationship between the state’s apparatus and the ordinary people in the state-funded shelter. It describes the everyday politics through which power and subjectification occur and how they are reproduced in daily activities. Using a qualitative technique, this research observes the everyday politics in Liponsos Keputih and interviews persons who can relate to the information that this research needs. This work concludes that the state’s domination over the people in state-funded social facilities remain, although the demand for an altered approach has grown since the 1998 political and bureaucratic reformation. This is depicted in the surveillance techniques and social control inside the shelter which posits the occupants as the subject of the working power. To a certain degree, it drives the emerging resistance carried out by the occupants who try to escape from the system of power that the shelter produces.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ilmiah D. and Karnaji. (2018). State and Society in a Post-Authoritarian Indonesian City - A Study of Liponsos Keputih Surabaya.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA, ISBN 978-989-758-393-3, pages 101-106. DOI: 10.5220/0008817401010106

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icocspa18,
author={Dini Nurul Ilmiah and Karnaji},
title={State and Society in a Post-Authoritarian Indonesian City - A Study of Liponsos Keputih Surabaya},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA,},
year={2018},
pages={101-106},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008817401010106},
isbn={978-989-758-393-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA,
TI - State and Society in a Post-Authoritarian Indonesian City - A Study of Liponsos Keputih Surabaya
SN - 978-989-758-393-3
AU - Ilmiah D.
AU - Karnaji.
PY - 2018
SP - 101
EP - 106
DO - 10.5220/0008817401010106