The political legacies of transmigration and the dynamics of ethnic politics: a case study from Lampung, Indonesia

This paper discusses the political legacies of transmigration in local elections Indonesia. Lampung province has an unusual ethnic make-up because past 100 years both Dutch colonial administration and Indonesian Government have been implementing a programme. Transmigration therefore changed demographic pattern Lampung. Since 2005, mode election from indirect to direct. As consequence this, there is revival identity politics elections. In this paper, we focus on affected area where descendants Javanese transmigrants are numerically dominant correspondingly powerful politics. research leads us argue that ethnicity become important factor areas it led domination transmigrant We further show how, response native Lampungese elites adopted number strategies help them retain role Our argument runs contrary some scholars who claimed playing diminishing