Dynamics and dynamite: Minangkabau urban landownership in the 1990s

In 1990 I studied landownership as part of my research on the urban development of Padang, and found that the actual changes in landownership displayed more of a backwards and forwards than a cyclical character. [...]the transfers are not smooth but are ridden with conflict: landownership is as expl...

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Published inBijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde Vol. 148; no. 3; pp. 428 - 464
Main Author Colombijn, F
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Brill 01.01.1992
KITLV Press
Koninklijke Brill NV
Subjects
Agricultural land
Appellate courts
Daughters
Fieldwork
Houses
Inheritances
Judges
Land ownership
Law
Metropolitan areas
Personal property
Property inheritance
Sons
Jakarta Indonesia
Netherlands
Sumatra
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Summary:In 1990 I studied landownership as part of my research on the urban development of Padang, and found that the actual changes in landownership displayed more of a backwards and forwards than a cyclical character. [...]the transfers are not smooth but are ridden with conflict: landownership is as explosive as dynamite. The conflicts impede urban development, and many real estate developers prefer to invest in other towns. 1 I am grateful to the Centre of Non-Western Studies and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for providing funds to conduct fieldwork, and to the Pengadilan Negeri Padang and the Badan Pertanahan Nasional in Padang for giving me access to their files. [...]in an article about Minangkabau landownership, we should not restrict ourselves to a study of adat rules pertaining to land, but should also look at the way the rules are applied by the persons concerned. [...]I shall bring the subject of conflict int0 the discussion.
ISSN:0006-2294
2213-4379
0006-2294
DOI:10.1163/22134379-90003145