@article{ART003104291},
author={Bernard Sellato},
title={Back to Faraway Upriver Territories: Forest Products, Decentralization, and Aoheng Dayak’s Return Migrations, Indonesian Borneo, 1960-2020},
journal={SUVANNABHUMI},
issn={2092-738X},
year={2024},
volume={16},
number={2},
pages={215-261},
doi={10.22801/svn.2024.16.2.215}
TY - JOUR
AU - Bernard Sellato
TI - Back to Faraway Upriver Territories: Forest Products, Decentralization, and Aoheng Dayak’s Return Migrations, Indonesian Borneo, 1960-2020
JO - SUVANNABHUMI
PY - 2024
VL - 16
IS - 2
PB - Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
SP - 215
EP - 261
SN - 2092-738X
AB - In the 1960s, the Aoheng, a small tribal group with immense territories on the upper Mahakam River, began out-migrating to downstream settlements in search of better living conditions. A trickle of young men, then their families, and more sizable groups, they settled in various towns along the river. In Samarinda, the provincial capital, they came to form a community of several hundred. When the powerful forest product boom (c. 1990) for the P. R. China market opened up the hinterland to extractive ventures, many Aoheng returned home to protect their rich natural resources from forceful outsiders. After 1998, decentralization policies established scores of new provinces, regencies, and districts across the country. Soon, West-Kutai was created as the interior “Dayak” regency, upstream and autonomous from the Moslem-Malay coastal regions. Coal mining and oilpalm plantations massively intensified, while Sendawar, its capital, offered hundreds of civil-service jobs and business opportunities. In 2012, West-Kutai was split to create yet another regency, Upper-Mahakam, prompting robust Aoheng reflux/return moves toward its upstream capital, Ujoh-Bilang. Already open to wild-frontier-style inroads by outsiders, it will soon be flooded by industrial ventures. The Aoheng, bound to become a minority in their own district, are struggling to defer their inevitable final dissolution.
KW - isolated minorities;reflux/return migrations;balkanized decentralization;state-steered extractivism;endangered cultures
DO - 10.22801/svn.2024.16.2.215
ER -
Bernard Sellato. (2024). Back to Faraway Upriver Territories: Forest Products, Decentralization, and Aoheng Dayak’s Return Migrations, Indonesian Borneo, 1960-2020. SUVANNABHUMI, 16(2), 215-261.
Bernard Sellato. 2024, "Back to Faraway Upriver Territories: Forest Products, Decentralization, and Aoheng Dayak’s Return Migrations, Indonesian Borneo, 1960-2020", SUVANNABHUMI, vol.16, no.2 pp.215-261. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2024.16.2.215
Bernard Sellato "Back to Faraway Upriver Territories: Forest Products, Decentralization, and Aoheng Dayak’s Return Migrations, Indonesian Borneo, 1960-2020" SUVANNABHUMI 16.2 pp.215-261 (2024) : 215.
Bernard Sellato. Back to Faraway Upriver Territories: Forest Products, Decentralization, and Aoheng Dayak’s Return Migrations, Indonesian Borneo, 1960-2020. 2024; 16(2), 215-261. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2024.16.2.215
Bernard Sellato. "Back to Faraway Upriver Territories: Forest Products, Decentralization, and Aoheng Dayak’s Return Migrations, Indonesian Borneo, 1960-2020" SUVANNABHUMI 16, no.2 (2024) : 215-261.doi: 10.22801/svn.2024.16.2.215
Bernard Sellato. Back to Faraway Upriver Territories: Forest Products, Decentralization, and Aoheng Dayak’s Return Migrations, Indonesian Borneo, 1960-2020. SUVANNABHUMI, 16(2), 215-261. doi: 10.22801/svn.2024.16.2.215
Bernard Sellato. Back to Faraway Upriver Territories: Forest Products, Decentralization, and Aoheng Dayak’s Return Migrations, Indonesian Borneo, 1960-2020. SUVANNABHUMI. 2024; 16(2) 215-261. doi: 10.22801/svn.2024.16.2.215
Bernard Sellato. Back to Faraway Upriver Territories: Forest Products, Decentralization, and Aoheng Dayak’s Return Migrations, Indonesian Borneo, 1960-2020. 2024; 16(2), 215-261. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2024.16.2.215
Bernard Sellato. "Back to Faraway Upriver Territories: Forest Products, Decentralization, and Aoheng Dayak’s Return Migrations, Indonesian Borneo, 1960-2020" SUVANNABHUMI 16, no.2 (2024) : 215-261.doi: 10.22801/svn.2024.16.2.215
