Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, ICSS 2019, 5-6 November 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia

Research Article

Political Contestation of Local and National in the Implementation of Law No. 6/2014 in Public Spaces and its Implications on Social Institutions in West Sumatera

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.5-11-2019.2292526,
        author={Tamrin  Tamrin and Afrizal  Afrizal and Helmi  Helmi and Asrinaldi  Asrinaldi},
        title={Political Contestation of Local and National in the Implementation of Law No. 6/2014 in Public Spaces and its Implications on Social Institutions in West Sumatera},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, ICSS 2019, 5-6 November 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICSS},
        year={2020},
        month={3},
        keywords={political contestation public space social institution indigenous people},
        doi={10.4108/eai.5-11-2019.2292526}
    }
    
  • Tamrin Tamrin
    Afrizal Afrizal
    Helmi Helmi
    Asrinaldi Asrinaldi
    Year: 2020
    Political Contestation of Local and National in the Implementation of Law No. 6/2014 in Public Spaces and its Implications on Social Institutions in West Sumatera
    ICSS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.5-11-2019.2292526
Tamrin Tamrin1,*, Afrizal Afrizal1, Helmi Helmi1, Asrinaldi Asrinaldi1
  • 1: Universitas Andalas, Indonesia
*Contact email: tamrin@soc.unand.ac.id

Abstract

Politics can be interpreted as an interpretive struggle about how space is realized as a place of culture and identity. The following article describes the efforts of the national government to build local identity through decentralization policies and regional autonomy, in order to open up public spaces for the contestation of identity and culture of diverse local communities in Indonesia. Based on the using of qualitative methods and using an ethnographic approach, we found that the decentralization policy implementation of Law No. 6/2014 on Villages in Indonesia produced several forms of political contestation between national governments and local communities, including in the form of; first, the institutional design of village governance; second, the process of selecting village heads; third, the tenure of the village head.