Solar and wind electricity generation technologies have become cost competitive and
account for a growing share of global investment in new electricity generation capacity. Both …

An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia,
and how people navigate dispossession​ The old aphorism" possession is nine-tenths of …

Across cities of the global South, major initiatives are underway to assemble land from
informal settlements in order to make it available for large-scale infrastructure and …

According to conventional law-and-economics theory, private property rights tend to evolve
as resource values rise. This optimistic assessment fails to explain the development of open …

Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity is a long-term study of the
historical transformations of the Minangkabau polity of nagari, property relations and the …

This paper reviews the emerging effects of the 2012 decision of the Constitutional Court of
Indonesia relating to the customary management of Indonesia's traditional forests. It focuses …

Indonesia is Southeast Asia's largest economy and freest democracy yet vested interests
and local politics serve as formidable obstacles to infrastructure reform. In this critical …

In this article we look at rights discourses and law as an arena of struggle in which local
people attempt to gain and secure access to localities of value. Following administrative …

After the New Order follows up Abidin Kusno's well-received Behind the Postcolonial and
The Appearances of Memory. This new work explores the formation of populist urban …

Land rights are uneven in Indonesia as they favor government over citizens as rights
subjects. Moreover, legal complexity and social inequality make legal knowledge about land …