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Set in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, this study explores the shifting relationships between border communities and the state along the political border with East Malaysia. The book rests on the premise that remote border regions offer an exciting study arena that can tell us important things about how marginal citizens relate to their nation-state. The basic assumption is that central state authority in the Indonesian borderlands has never been absolute, but waxes and wanes, and state rules and laws are always up for local interpretation and negotiation. In its role as key symbol of state sovereignty, the borderland has become a place were central state authorities are often most eager to govern and exercise power. But as illustrated, the borderland is also a place were state authority is most likely to be challenged, questioned and manipulated as border communities often have multiple loyalties that transcend state borders and contradict imaginations of the state as guardians of national sovereignty and citizenship.
1.2.3.4.Patronage and power --6.7.8.9.Introduction --Prologue --Borderland encounters --Researching borderlands and illicit practices --The Kapuas Hulu borderland --The border advantage --Structure of the book --Borders of engagement --Borders and borderlands --State formation from below --Decentralizing Indonesia: More room to manoeuvre --Patterns of patronage and the 'border effect' --Rules and norms as processes of negotiation --Evading state authority --Settlements on the pre-colonial frontier --Drawing borders: Colonial encounters on the frontier --The wild frontier: Batang Lupar country --Migration and warfare --Rebellion and pacification --Border outlaws: Perpetuating semi-autonomy --Guerrilla warfare and resource extraction --Konfrontasi: State making on the border --A time of disruption: Nationalist aspiration and state violence --Operation Destruction: Counterinsurgency and anti-communism --The PARAKU: Insurgents or liberation army? --Establishment of a borderland elite --New Order legacies: Authoritarian rule and resource extraction --Large-scale timber concessions and military rule --Moulding loyal citizens and its paradoxical outcomes --Decentralization, informal networks and 'illegal' logging --Towards increased regional autonomy --Cooperative logging and a booming economy --Negotiation and collusion: elite opportunities --Cross-border patron-broker-client relations --The Malaysian connection --Captain of the timber industry --Small border elites --Cooperation and disputes --Non-state forms of authority --Intersecting spheres of legality and illegality --Vigilantes: The usnata killing --'Wild' logging and 'gangsterism' --Confession of a Malaysian timber baron --Shifting loyalties --Illegal but licit: Circumventing the law, enforcing local norms --Defying the limits of legality --Shades of gray --Sovereignty and security --Security through development --Grand schemes --Re-militarizing the border --Contesting large-scale schemes --Tightening border regimes --Borderland autonomy and local politics --Promotion of a 'North Border District' --Justification for a new district --Separatism: Playing the border card --Ethnic sentiments --Multiple levels of power struggle --National and transnational networks of influence --Conclusion --Fluid borders and fluctuating borderlands --Claiming authority, negotiating autonomy --Zones of semi-autonomy.