Conservation in Colonial Indonesia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3386279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Cribb (0000-0003-1375-1228, Australian National University, corresponding author), Robert Cribb (Australian National University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-61 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interventions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698010601173817 |
| OpenAlex | W2028151766 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 11 |
Conservationist thinking in colonial Indonesia (Netherlands East Indies) developed in the late nineteenth century from awareness of the importance of birds in controlling agricultural pests. In the early twentieth century, the Netherlands also felt pressure to live up to ‘international obligations’ in nature preservation. Colonial paternalism fuelled fears of the damaging social consequences of the presence of rough bird-of-paradise hunters in West New Guinea. The colonial authorities saw the indigenous peoples of the archipelago as the main offenders in environmental destruction, and this perception fuelled the assumption that ‘natives’ needed firm control. By contrast, ‘responsible’ hunting by members of the colonial middle class and elite was permitted by means of a system of licences. Hunters increasingly advocated creating nature reserves in which wilderness would be closed to the indigenous population to reserve a sustainable population of game for hunters. Pleasure in hunting became associated in the minds of the large European, Indo-European (Eurasian) and to some extent Chinese communities with a profound attachment to the colonial land. This attachment, resembling that of white settlers in Australasia, North America and southern Africa, was the basis for an Indies settler nationalism which repudiated the indigenous peoples’ claims to the archipelago on the grounds that they did not care properly for their environment. This association with settler nationalism weakened the appeal of conservationist ideas in independent Indonesia
Archaeology · Archipelago · Colonialism · Elite · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Wilderness · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Ecology
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| Citations per year | 0.44 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |