| Abstrak/Abstract |
Indigenous Rights Movement (IRM) has proliferated in Indonesian regions in the last decade as a consequence of the diversity and plurality of social life brought about by democratization. However, the movements are still relatively isolated in their interests, right claims, and local tradition, without much connection with a broader arena of democratic activity. Therefore, they still have a limited impact to alter their life chances against exclusionary policy impacts effected by state policy and extractive business activities. This study examines the political agency of the movement including civil society organizations and political party leaders representing and advocating claims and demands of the movement in the arena
of public policy. By comparing three cases of the indigenous rights movement in post-conflict areas of Aceh and Maluku and in West Nusa Tenggara where the movement is strengthened under decentralization, this study elaborates the nature of the indigenous rights movement, their particularities and diversities, their problems and challenges in dealing with state policies and private business, and opportunities for integrating these movements into broader democratic movements at the national, regional and global level. Within democratic framework perspective, as this study proposes, the extent to which the advocacy is effective depends on the capacity and strategy of the movements to link their demands with other demands of different groups in public policy. Urgency of this proposed study is to (1) fill the gap in the current study and advocacy of indigeneity movement in Indonesia characterized by narrow focus on identity and welfare (liberal discourse), (2) to help advance political struggle of the movement into public policy arena at local and national level, and (3) to connect Indonesian experience of indigeneity movement into Asian, Australian, Oceanic and global discourse of indigeinity agenda and advocacy. |
