Welfare and conflict: Policy failure in the Indonesian cash transfer

Sumarto, Mulyadi (2021) Welfare and conflict: Policy failure in the Indonesian cash transfer. Journal of Social Policy, 50 (3). 533 – 551. ISSN 00472794

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Abstract

Welfare policy may promote social integration and reduce social conflicts in communities. However, this study finds that the Indonesian unconditional cash transfer program stimulated multifaceted conflicts, which were accompanied by harmful social unrest. The government failed to lessen such conflicts, but community leaders successfully minimized the conflicts through informal redistribution. This redistribution reflects problematic informal-formal layering and nesting, which lead to a complicated policy failure. Employing social conflict and institutional change theoretical frameworks, this article aims at using the Indonesian cash transfer as a lens to understand how and why welfare policy causes social conflicts in communities and how the conflicts stimulate policy distortion and modification, resulting in policy failure. This policy failure reveals important theoretical implications on the nexus of conflict and institutional change. © 2021 Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Cited by: 7
Uncontrolled Keywords: Indonesia; conflict management; institutional reform; policy approach; social conflict; theoretical study; welfare provision
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences > Social Development and Welfare
Depositing User: Sri JUNANDI
Date Deposited: 03 Oct 2024 01:40
Last Modified: 03 Oct 2024 01:40
URI: https://ir.lib.ugm.ac.id/id/eprint/4066

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