Kampung, Islam and State in Urban Java Texi Smith Tara Prescott-Johnson

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Kampung, Islam and State in Urban Java Texi Smith Tara Prescott-JohnsonThe nature of community in urban Java changed dramatically during the economic and political transition that followed the fall of the Soeharto regime in Indonesia, although the community continues to provide a rallying point for urban low income residents in the off street neighbourhoods (kampong) in Yogyakarta and in other cities of Java. Under Soeharto, kampung residents both cooperated in the supervision of their lives by the state and explored