In search of middle Indonesia: middle classes in provincial towns
In: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde 292
In: Power and place in Southeast Asia 4
The middle classes of Indonesia's provincial towns are not particularly rich yet nationally influential. This book examines them ethnographically. Rather than a market-friendly, liberal middle class, it finds a conservative petty bourgeoisie just out of poverty and skilled at politics.Please note that Sylvia Tidey's article (pp. 89-110) will only be available in the print edition of this book (9789004263000)