Does the sea divide or unite Indonesians? Ethnicity and regionalism from a maritime perspective: WORKING PAPER

本记录描述了位于堪培拉的澳大利亚国立大学亚太地区资源管理（RMAP）项目的工作文件，并提供了相关链接。<br /> *****<br /> 印度尼西亚政府认为，海洋连接着印度尼西亚的许多岛屿和不同民族。从政治上讲，这可能是一种适当的手段，可以鼓励人们认为，无论在哪里，无论是谁，他们都是团结一致的穆斯林。然而，当这种意识形态被用于海洋资源管理时，就会产生问题。其中一个问题来自这样一个事实，即人们不认为印度尼西亚海是“对所有印度尼西亚人免费的”。我认为，人们在界定谁有权进入某个特定渔场以及谁应被排除在外时，无论多么含糊，都是在谈论“我们”和“他们”。通过分析发生在印尼不同地方的冲突，我将证明种族和地区主义已被用作“我们”和“他们”的定义因素。“在特定情况下，种族和地区主义决定了渔民是否可以获得海洋资源。因此，在实际层面上，海洋并没有将印度尼西亚人团结起来，事实上，是种族和区域主义将印度尼西亚的海洋分开。

This record describes, and links to a working paper produced through the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific (RMAP) Program based at The Australian National University in Canberra.<br /> *****<br /> The Indonesian Government argues that the sea bridges the many islands and different peoples of Indonesia. Politically, this might be appropriate as a means of encouraging people to think that wherever and whoever there are, they are united as Indonesians. However, when this ideology is used for maritime resource management, it creates problems. One issue derives from the fact that people do not think that the Indonesian sea is 'free for all' Indonesians. I will argue that people, however vaguely, talk about 'we' and 'they' in defining who has the right to a particular fishing ground and who should be excluded. By analyzing conflicts that have taken part in different places in Indonesia, I will demonstrate that ethnicity and regionalism have been used as the defining factor of 'We' and 'They.' In particular contexts, ethnicity and regionalism define whether fishermen can access marine resources. Thus, at the practical level the sea does not unite Indonesians, and it is in fact, ethnicity and regionalism that divides the Indonesian seas.