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State, Capital, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Indonesia: A Rejoinder
Journal of contemporary Asia, Early Access
2026
Abstract
This rejoinder to Mudhoffir (Citation2026) identifies three key theoretical points of disagreement in the response to our commentary on Indonesian protests of 2025 (Wijaya and Jayasuriya Citation2026). First, the “authoritarian continuity thesis” advanced by our critics misses the way in which the “rule of capital” is organised within the state apparatus. The response to our article rests on an instrumentalist reading of the Indonesian state, which is contrasted to a more structural understanding set out in our 2026 commentary. Second, this perspective enables a better comprehension of the shifts in the form of authoritarian political regimes in response to a variety of often overlapping crises. Third, protests must be understood not simply as a set of grievances about elite impunity but signify a fundamental shift in the structure of the working or labouring class, which is itself the product of capitalist transformation over the last decades. Here, it is contended that these conflicts now find expression in new forms of politics over access to means of social reproduction.
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- Title
- State, Capital, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Indonesia: A Rejoinder
- Authors/Creators
- Trissia Wijaya - The University of MelbourneKanishka Jayasuriya - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Journal of contemporary Asia, Early Access
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Number of pages
- 11
- Identifiers
- 991005896262707891
- Copyright
- © 2026 The Author(s).
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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