Kédang - Sociopolitical Organization



Social Organization. Class lines are blurred in Kédang. In the past, Kédang may well have been a source of slaves, but little information is available on the subject. Until recently, certain families of the village Kalikur could have been described as a nobility of sorts.

Political Organization. The present government of the Republic of Indonesia has virtually eliminated grass-roots political activity in rural villages outside the confines of its political organization, GOLKAR. Historically, clans of the village of Kalikur had political and military ascendancy at certain periods over the rest of Kédang, and this was given formal recognition under the Dutch in the appointment of the rian-barat ("great and heavy"), a sort of subraja. Today Kédang is divided into the two districts ( kecamatan ) Omesuri and Bujasuri, and is included in the Regency of Flores Timur.


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