The global child and non-governmental governance of the family in post-Suharto Indonesia

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ID2159551
AutoresJan Newberry (0000-0002-8462-2231)
Ano2010
Volume39
Fascículo3
Páginas403-426
Data de publicação2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEconomy and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03085147.2010.486217
OpenAlexW2040274089
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas37

State interventions in the family under Suharto's New Order were pervasive and deep, from education to the local delivery of social welfare through citizen-housewives. In the heady and chaotic period since the end of Suharto's regime in the late 1990s, there has been an explosion of programmes aimed at early childhood in response to transnational initiatives that suggest a new global child. Local women as wives and mothers are once again involved in the delivery of these programmes. Based on fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Java, this article considers stabilities and changes in non-governmental governance of families in Indonesia in the context of the democratization. New early childhood programmes illustrate forms of transnational governance, including corporate day care and international regimes of expertise on children. Yet, the re-purposing of New Order forms of governmentality now in neo-liberal forms suggests great continuity in forms of rule through the family in Indonesia, even in the era of democratic reform. Keywords: non-governmental governancedemocratizationliberal and neo-liberal governmentalityearly childhoodfamilyIndonesiaexpertise Notes 1. The ten principal programmes of PKK are listed at the entrances to hamlets and neighbourhoods and in community halls throughout Indonesia: (1) comprehension and practical application of Pancasila; (2) mutual self-help; (3) food; (4) clothing; (5) housing and home economics; (6) education and craft skills; (7) health; (8) development of cooperatives; (9) protection and conservation of the environment; (10) health planning (read as family planning) (following Sullivan Citation1994). 2. As argued elsewhere, ritual and administrative life intertwine in lower-class urban kampungs, like the one at the heart of this research, such that the community is figured as a political rationality and an extension of the family (cf. Carsten, Citation1995). 3. Ethnographic research in Yogyakarta began with original fieldwork in 1992–3 and subsequent periods of field research in 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004 and 2006. More recent research in October of 2007 included site visits to six pre-school programmes in the city of Yogyakarta and two in surrounding rural areas. Interviews were conducted with NGO representatives working in early childhood education, with officers of the organization for workers in early childhood care and education, with local childhood experts and with government education officials. Observations were made of training for early childhood workers. This work was in addition to a series of interviews conducted since the 2006 earthquake with activists from four non-governmental organizations. My thanks to Nita Kariani Purwanti who served as interviewer, translator and colleague for much of this work. 4. In 2002, the programme appeared as Pendidikan Anak Dini Usia or PADU (Departemen Pendidikan Nasional, Citation2002), but then, by 2006, it appears as Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini or PAUD (Departemen Pendidikan Nasional, Citation2006). Because formal education in Indonesia can begin with kindergarten at six this global age category of early childhood fits a little uneasily with local practices as was mentioned repeatedly in interviews. 5. Interview conducted by Nita Kariani Purwanti. 6. Some hesitations in this conversation were removed to improve readability. 7. There appears to be an interesting relationship between the development of these franchised early childhood programmes and the expansion of corporate franchises in educational improvement and testing for older children (Sumsion, 2006). 8. Susi's name is a pseudonym. Sri Marpinjun's actual name is used here because she is a public figure

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