Local Knowledge Matters: Power, Context and Policy Making in Indonesia

✍ Scribed by Kharisma Nugroho; Fred Carden; Hans Antlov

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 190
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities. The authors consider the mechanisms used by local organisations and the constraints and opportunities they face, exploring what the knowledge-to-policy process means, who is involved and how different communities can engage in the policy process. Ten diverse case studies are used from around Indonesia, addressing issues such as forest management, water resources, maritime resource management and financial services. By making extensive use of quotes from the field, the book allows the reader to ‘hear’ the perspectives and beliefs of community members around local knowledge and its effects on individual and community life.

✦ Table of Contents

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE MATTERS
Contents
Acronyms
Foreword
Preface
1. Introduction: local knowledge matters!
Knowledge in policy processes
Types of knowledge in policy processes
Knowledge hierarchies
The knowledge sector in Indonesia
Local knowledge in policy making in Indonesia
Outline of the book
2. Forms of knowledge and policy influence
Types of knowledge in public policy making
A typology of knowledge
The interaction between knowledge sources: local knowledge and citizen participation
Knowledge-to-policy processes and local knowledge
Conclusions
3. Local knowledge in democratic policy making
The study of meaning and local knowledge
Public decision making, bureaucratic power and local knowledge
Working politically
Local knowledge and participatory development
Conclusion
4. Stories of local knowledge
Case study 1: Water for all – Perkumpulan Pikul (Pikul Association)
Case study 2: ‘Baleo! Baleo! Baleo!’ – Poros Photo
Case study 3: Pranata Mangsa: When traditional knowledge meets science – Centre for Anthropological Studies, University of Indonesia (PUSKA UI)
Case study 4: Fish sovereignty in sasi lompa, Haruku – Centre for Regional Studies and Information (PATTIRO), Jakarta
Case study 5: The river that brings life to the city – Institute for Islamic and Society Studies (LK3), Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan
Case study 6: Wisdom fends off disaster in Pakis village – Bandung Institute for Governance Studies (BIGS)
Case study 7: Revitalising Keujruen Blang – Centre for Education and Community Studies (PKPM), Aceh
Case study 8: Blessings from mawah – Foundation for People’s Welfare (YKU), Aceh Besar
Case study 9: Zero compromise in Torong Besi – Centre for Politics and Government, Gadjah Mada University (POLGOV UGM)
Case study 10: Traditional insurance – Lembaga Advokasi HIV/AIDS (LAHA) Institute for HIV/AIDS Advocacy, Kendari
5. Generating and managing local knowledge
Generating local knowledge
Interaction and adaption with the local environment
Interaction between forms of knowledge
Locality and origin
The political economy of generating and managing local knowledge
Methods and instruments to codify information and knowledge
Methods and instruments to manage information and knowledge
Conclusions
6. Using local knowledge in policy making
How is local knowledge communicated?
Who to influence
The politics of local knowledge to policy
7. Conclusion: improving public policy through local assets
Knowledge assets and strategies
New roles, new rules
Going forward: a level playing field
References
Index