Predatory peace. Dispossession at Aceh’s oil palm frontier

Christian Lund*

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde
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Abstract

The end of the civil war in Aceh brought peace, but it has been of a predatory nature. As a moment of rupture, the peace revealed interests, powers and dynamics, and it offered an opportunity for their reconfiguration. When unrest ceased, old agrarian conflicts between smallholders and planters resumed. Peace held promise of land reform. Yet old patterns of smallholder dispossession were entrenched as the former insurgency leadership aligned with the old elite of plantation companies. Oil palm contract-farming schemes effectively alienated smallholders from their land, and violence precluded their organization. As a result, large-scale plantation production expanded. Through the creation of a violent frontier, smallholders were denied recognition of independent rights and property. In essence, smallholders were dispossessed by a combination of violence, political power and duplicitous paperwork. The study is based on fieldwork in areas where current land conflicts are played out, as well as on secondary sources.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Peasant Studies
Vol/bind45
Udgave nummer2
Sider (fra-til)431-452
Antal sider22
ISSN0306-6150
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2018

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