James Joseph Errington, PhD

In Search of Middle Indonesia is a wide-ranging attempt to relocate the focus of the social science research agenda on Indonesia, away from the 'commanding heights' of society, the state and the economy, to the underestimated middle reaches. For a long time neglected, Middle Indonesia represents the geographical space between village and metropolitan city, the social space between the established upper-middle classes and the urban poor, the economic and political twilight zone between formal ins

Multiparty research on moderniziation in Indonesian urban societies in the geosocial space between villages and large metropoles. The focus of this project is on sociolinguistic change in three such middle Indonesian towns. URL: http://www.kitlv.nl/home/Projects?id=14