The Dirty Work of Empire: Modern Policing and Public Order in Surabaya, 1911--1919

dc.contributor.author	Bloembergen, Marieke
dc.contributor.translator	Lee, Doreen
dc.date.accessioned	2017-11-10T14:30:57Z
dc.date.available	2017-11-10T14:30:57Z
dc.date.issued	2007-04
dc.description.abstract	This essay focuses on the problems of colonial security and modern colonial policing in the Netherlands-Indies, in the context of colonial state formation. It analyses the intent of police reforms implemented predominantly in Java, 1911–1919, and the results of those measures for the actual practice of modern colonial policing in the city of Surabaya. The Dutch colonial reformers intended to “modernize” the largely indigenous police force, making it both more efficient for state control and, ideally, more responsive to the citizenry’s need for security. The author's examination of three case studies involving the Surabaya police reveals the inherent problem—and the dilemmas of colonial policing—that hobbled this effort to ensure state control and improve security in a rapidly changing, ethnically divided city governed by a colonial regime.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/54414
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Cornell University Southeast Asia Program
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Indonesia
dc.title	The Dirty Work of Empire: Modern Policing and Public Order in Surabaya, 1911--1919
dc.type	article
schema.issueNumber	Vol. 83

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