What is it about?
This article analyzes the movement of Indonesian overseas or diasporas to advocate dual citizenship law for their status. However, the uniqueness of the movement is that advocacy for this agenda is more institutionalized than before since the establishment of a formal organization of Indonesian diaspora called Indonesian Diaspora Network (IDN) in 2012. But, the response from the government currently cannot accept this proposal yet, since the single citizenship policy has embodied and never changed in Indonesian citizenship law. Thus, a compromise approach to response this proposal has been taken by the government through some innovation in the field of immigration law and the unfinished citizenship law reform.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
In this article, I proposed a new term called "semi-dual citizenship" to name this current response from the government, since the full dual citizenship proposal has not been politically accepted. I also proposed "diaspora test" as a metaphor that refers to step by step accommodation of diaspora's rights by the Indonesian government.
Perspectives
I hope this article makes a contribution to the citizenship discourse in Indonesia, particularly in politico-legal perspective on how globalization impacts the legal status of citizens in non-immigrant nations. This article also tried to fill the gap in the research of modern Indonesian diaspora, particularly in legal perspective.
Bilal Dewansyah
Universitas Padjadjaran
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Indonesian Diaspora movement and citizenship law reform: towards ‘semi-dual citizenship’, Diaspora Studies, October 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09739572.2018.1538688.
You can read the full text:
Resources
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
