Land Discourses, Patronage, And The 2018 Village Election In Baleharjo, Yogyakarta

Fikri Disyacitta; Darnik Wulandari; Anastasia Imelda Cahyaningrum

doi:10.22146/pcd.52707

Land Discourses, Patronage, And The 2018 Village Election In Baleharjo, Yogyakarta

https://doi.org/10.22146/pcd.52707

Fikri Disyacitta^(1*), Darnik Wulandari⁽²⁾, Anastasia Imelda Cahyaningrum⁽³⁾

(1) Universitas Gadjah Mada
(2) Universitas Gadjah Mada
(3) Universitas Gadjah Mada
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract

This article explores how village chief candidates can utilise a suburban community's understanding of public land use to mobilise political support, taking as its example the village chief election in Baleharjo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This article argues that, where village residents still rely on land for their welfare, candidates can politicise land grievances to gather popular support. In Baleharjo, the incumbent received the backing of merchants and investors from predominantly non-agrarian pedukuhan (hamlets) who felt that they had benefitted from the use of village-controlled land for tourism purposes. At the same time, the challenger recognised the hardships of farmers who had been deleteriously affected by such use of village-controlled land, and thus mobilised them on voting day. Applying a qualitative approach, data for this article were collected through interviews and participatory observation over the course of October 2018.

Keywords

Land, land grievances, village elections, patronage, suburban

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22146/pcd.52707