Spatial Social Dynamics behind International Humanitarian Assistance to Post-Tsunami Reconstruction: The Friendship Village of Indonesia-China in Aceh, Indonesia
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Kang, Chia-Fen
Abstract
The post-disaster reconstruction of Indian Ocean Tsunami at the end of 2004 was the largest cross-border humanitarian aid operations in recent years. This study is to focus on “the Friendship Village of Indonesia- China” (thereafter The Friendship Village) in Aceh of Indonesia, built by the Chinese government as cross-border humanitarian aid for post-disaster off-site residential reconstruction. Three research questions are particularly asked in the thesis: first, how and what the Friendship Village space be constructed; second, how the donors and local people construct the social relations especially the ethnic relationships between Chinese and Acehnese; and third, how the aid products resist the time exam.
The Friendship Village was a post-disaster permanent residential reconstruction donated by the Chinese government in a remote area far away from the downtown. The Tsunami victim housing relocation dominated by the Indonesian government was in a format of ethnic-spatial non-segregation between Chinese and Indonesians. The location disadvantages plus ethnic-spatial mixed arrangement offered an opportunity for new residents in the Friendship Village to interact more often and closer not only within Chinese and Acehnese themselves but also between both ethnic groups. The community identity as the villagers of the Friendship Village emerged, which came along with the better social relationship between Chinese and Acehnese.
However, due to insufficient regulations, certain villagers redecorated their assigned houses through various spatial means within years. In addition, other villagers even traded their assigned houses to outsiders. These spatial and social changes challenged the previous community operation and ethnic interaction that had been created soon after the establishment of the Friendship Village.
Subjects
International Humanitarian Assistance
Post-disaster Reconstruction
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
the relationship between Chinese and Acehnese
SDGs
Type
thesis
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