Joshua Barker (Author)
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 11
Issue: 1
Pages: 91-99
Edition Details: Special issue of the journal on STS and Indonesia
Language: English
How do new infrastructures for the movement of goods, people, and ideas get built, and how do they change? How do infrastructures function as instruments for new modes of political power and control? Can social actors mobilize to shape the direction of infrastructure change? These are the core questions that animate this excellent set of articles written by an emerging cohort of STS scholars with an interest in Indonesia. Each of the articles presents a case study of a specific infrastructure project: Mohsin traces the history of a state-led project to build out the electrical grid in Bali during Indonesia's New Order; Padawangi examines the politics of a community-based project aimed at expanding piped water service to poor neighborhoods in Jakarta; Fatimah analyzes a university-based project to establish a new biofuel industry in Sumbawa; and Budiastuti describes the deployment of a new DNA tracking system for Indonesian timber exports. Taken together, these case studies contribute to an emerging picture of sociotechnical change in Indonesia that draws sharp contrasts between how infrastructures were built and organized during the New Order period (1966–98) and how they are coming to be built and organized now.
...MoreArticle Amir, Sulkiar (2017) Reconstructing the Archipelago: Introduction to Special Issue. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 1-7).
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