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In this chapter, I re-examine the concept of livability through the experiences of Chinese-Indonesian activists in urban kampung advocacy. The purpose is to discuss the extent to which collective governance and collective action in kampung can stand as an inspiration of a society who can work together for common good. Studies have pointed to the contradictory relationship between urban development and kampung kota in Indonesia, as old settlements may be forced to make way for new buildings, infrastructures, and population. With the exception of studies of old Chinese quarters, discourses on Chinese-Indonesians are rarely situated within urban kampungs, and stereotypes of Chinese-Indonesians as entrepreneurs perpetuate the distance between Chinese-Indonesianness and kampung. The objective of this chapter is threefold: (1) to enrich the discussion on livability from the lens of kampung, particularly by challenging the popular assumption of livability as services and infrastructures and (2) addressing the ethnic segregation and fragmentation, which also take place in kampung as a result of urban expansion. Finally, the third objective is to demonstrate the lens of kampung in the issue of discrimination and segregation. How do Chinese-Indonesian activists perceive their relationship with urban kampung? What are the grounds of their involvement in urban kampung activism? How do experiences in urban kampung activisms affect their understanding of their Chinese-Indonesianness vis-à-vis kampung as a social, cultural, and spatial unit? I rely on in-depth interviews of Chinese-Indonesian kampung activists in Jakarta, Bandung, and Surabaya. Urban kampung advocacies are spaces in which Chinese-Indonesian activists form relationships and develop spatial rootedness in the neighborhoods. As their primary residences are rarely in urban kampung, the potential of desegregation remains limited, but interactions through urban kampung activism are in themselves processes in pursuit of livability, and for the activists a re-negotiation of the sense of Chinese-Indonesianness.

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Desegregation in Action: Understanding Livability from Kampung Advocacy by Chinese-Indonesian Urban Activists

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  • Rita Padawangi

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In this chapter, I re-examine the concept of livability through the experiences of Chinese-Indonesian activists in urban kampung advocacy. The purpose is to discuss the extent to which collective governance and collective action in kampung can stand as an inspiration of a society who can work together for common good. Studies have pointed to the contradictory relationship between urban development and kampung kota in Indonesia, as old settlements may be forced to make way for new buildings, infrastructures, and population. With the exception of studies of old Chinese quarters, discourses on Chinese-Indonesians are rarely situated within urban kampungs, and stereotypes of Chinese-Indonesians as entrepreneurs perpetuate the distance between Chinese-Indonesianness and kampung. The objective of this chapter is threefold: (1) to enrich the discussion on livability from the lens of kampung, particularly by challenging the popular assumption of livability as services and infrastructures and (2) addressing the ethnic segregation and fragmentation, which also take place in kampung as a result of urban expansion. Finally, the third objective is to demonstrate the lens of kampung in the issue of discrimination and segregation. How do Chinese-Indonesian activists perceive their relationship with urban kampung? What are the grounds of their involvement in urban kampung activism? How do experiences in urban kampung activisms affect their understanding of their Chinese-Indonesianness vis-à-vis kampung as a social, cultural, and spatial unit? I rely on in-depth interviews of Chinese-Indonesian kampung activists in Jakarta, Bandung, and Surabaya. Urban kampung advocacies are spaces in which Chinese-Indonesian activists form relationships and develop spatial rootedness in the neighborhoods. As their primary residences are rarely in urban kampung, the potential of desegregation remains limited, but interactions through urban kampung activism are in themselves processes in pursuit of livability, and for the activists a re-negotiation of the sense of Chinese-Indonesianness.