State Power from 'Ordinary' People's Viewpoint in Indonesia and Malaysia: Case from Social Movement

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K20873
• Project/Area Number (Other): 18H05671 (2018)
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund (2019); Single-year Grants (2018)
• Review Section: 0106:Political science and related fields
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: Morishita Akiko 立命館大学, 国際関係学部, 准教授 (40822739)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-08-24 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 東南アジア政治 / 社会運動 / インドネシア / マレーシア / 国家権力観

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Through fieldwork in Indonesia and Malaysia, this research project collected interview data and documents on how non-activist "ordinary" participants in social movements viewed state power in the late 1990s and the 2000s. The researcher analysed reasons for participating in the demonstrations, memory of demonstrators, and their views on security forces.
Based on the data and materials obtained from fieldwork, the researcher argues how people of each countries, especially the middle class, perceived state power under the authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regime. Furthermore, the researcher identifies similarities and differences between the two countries in the people's perception of state power, and argues that modern and contemporary history of each state is a key to understand the differences.

Free Research Field

地域研究、東南アジア政治

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

これまでの東南アジア研究における国家権力論は、主に知識人や政治指導者たちの思想を反映したものであったのに対し、本研究では一般市民が国家権力をどのように捉えているのかという点に注目している。これにより、市井の人々の視点から現代国家の政治と権力の問題を捉えなおし、国民の多様な視点を示すことができる。