Extended Agrarian Question in Concessionary Capitalism: The Jakarta's Kaum Miskin Kota. (August 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Batubara, Bosman; Rachman, Noer Fauzi
• Is Part Of: Agrarian south. Volume 11:Number 2(2022)
• Page Start: 232
• Page End: 255
• Publication Date: 2022-08
• Subjects: Extended agrarian question -- urbanization -- near-South -- Indonesia -- urban poor -- concessionary capitalism; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Southern Hemisphere -- Periodicals; Agriculture and politics -- Southern Hemisphere -- Periodicals; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- India -- Periodicals; Agriculture and politics -- India -- Periodicals; Rural development -- Southern Hemisphere -- Periodicals; Rural development -- India -- Periodicals; 338.1
• DOI: 10.1177/22779760221095121
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2277-9760

Abstract

This article reassesses agrarian questions by using the ongoing explosion in urban and urbanization theories to explain Jakarta's urban poor (the Kaum Miskin Kota ) as an extended agrarian question. It shows how the two capitalist development trajectories identified by Lenin as the Russian and American paths, or the transformation of feudal large-scale and small landholders into capitalists, respectively, do not apply in Indonesia. In the latter, a "concessionary capitalism" of large-scale land claims and allocations by the state is observed. This specific process produces specific agrarian questions of soil/land and labor through which the urban poor germinated. It closes with a political project, that is, to open more alliance-building possibilities between urban and rural social movements.