ABSTRACT
Anti-large dam struggles have been among the important arenas of environmental politics and environmentalism in capitalist as well as socialist nationstates.1 The aim of this study is to explore the dynamics and the systemic effects of large dam struggles in Indonesia, in particular, to consider whether they have empowered the immediate victims of these projects. Although this analysis of Indonesia’s contemporary large dam struggles will focus on the highly publicized Kedungombo case, an overall picture of other cases of resistance to dam development during the New Order will also be provided as background to analyzing the shared features of these struggles.
