The streets o f to d ay 's Jak arta are n ot m eant for p ed estrians. The com m uters in their autom obiles and the pedestrians live in tw o sep arate w orld s___ W alking on the streets m eans th at one h as n o access to a ca r, no access to a p ro tective netw ork , and n o access to anybody anyw here. W h at such people ca rry w ith them is all they h ave. Jak artan s in th eir p assin g ca rs, on the o th er hand, incessan tly ru n arou nd the city , b ack and forth , rou nd and ro u n d , busily tracin g the m entally co n stru cted ro u te-m ap s and reen actin g ties organized h ierarch ically into the netw ork. 1 The au th o r w ould like to thank Joshua Barker, A rief Djati, L o tta H edm an, and Benny Subianto for their en cou ragm en t, insigh t, and inspiration from the conception of this essay to its eventual com pletion, as w ell as Ben A nderson, Anne Booth, H ow ard Dick, Vedi H adiz, D ouglas K am m en, Mike MaUey, Jonathan P in cu s, L oren R yter, and Takashi Shiraishi for their com m ents, suggestions, and co n stru ctive criticism s o n /o f an earlier d raft. Financial su p p ort for research in Indonesia w as p rovided b y the School of O riental and A frican Studies, U n iversity of London, and the South E ast A sia C om m ittee of the British A cadem y. Responsibility for e rro rs o f fact and judgm ent rests solely w ith the au th or.
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