'Madat makan orang'; Opium eats people: Opium addiction as a public health issue in late colonial Java, 1900-1940

Wahid, Abdul (2020) 'Madat makan orang'; Opium eats people: Opium addiction as a public health issue in late colonial Java, 1900-1940. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 51 (1-2). pp. 25-48. ISSN 00224634

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Abstract

By the 1890s the Dutch had noticed the escalation of opium addiction in colonial Indonesia. They believed that opium consumption had brought about health problems and other negative socioeconomic effects. Yet, the profitability of opium took precedence over its negative social effects in the Dutch East Indies government's policy, which until the end of the 1920s made almost no substantial efforts to address addiction. It was nongovernmental organisations which took the initiative to install medical facilities for addicts and launch diverse anti-opium campaigns. These organisations marked the rise of modern philanthropic activism in the field of public health as part of the flourishing sociopolitical movements of that time. They also represent the nascent civil society in late colonial Indonesia.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: alkaloid; civil society; colonialism; consumption behavior; public health; social policy; socioeconomic status
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DS Asia > Indonesia
Divisions: Faculty of Cultural Sciences > History Department
Depositing User: OKTAVIANA DWI P
Date Deposited: 04 Sep 2024 03:16
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2024 03:16
URI: https://ir.lib.ugm.ac.id/id/eprint/6332

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