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    Lumbung nation: metaphors of food security in Indonesia

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    Author
    MacRae, G; Reuter, T
    Date
    2020-10-23
    Source Title
    Indonesia and the Malay World
    Publisher
    ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Reuter, Thomas
    Affiliation
    Asia Institute
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    Document Type
    Journal Article
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    MacRae, G. & Reuter, T. (2020). Lumbung nation: metaphors of food security in Indonesia. INDONESIA AND THE MALAY WORLD, 48 (142), pp.338-358. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2020.1830535.
    Access Status
    This item is embargoed and will be available on 2022-04-16
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/258496
    DOI
    10.1080/13639811.2020.1830535
    ARC Grant code
    ARC/DP170100508
    Abstract
    Indonesian food security policy suffers from a fundamental internal contradiction–between neoliberal pressures towards more integration into the global market-based food system geared towards profit and an intractable residual belief in national self-sufficiency in staple foods. While this contradiction presents itself in technical and economic terms, it is fundamentally a matter of culture and ideology. The article addresses this contradiction by way of a study of key metaphors of food security, among which the most central is lumbung–the traditional rice barn. Lumbung of various kinds have been a central pillar of food security across the archipelago since ancient times and still serve in many contexts as a metaphor for food security at various levels. While this ‘lumbung culture’ may have ‘hindered’ attempts to integrate Indonesia more fully into wider circuits of market exchange, it has to some extent protected the Indonesian food system from the growing vulnerabilities of climate, resource/environmental stresses, and pandemics.

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