2008 年 2008 巻 37 号 p. 91-111
Illegal mining business was rampant in Indonesia since the 1997 monetary and economic crises and political transition from New Order regime to the Reform Cabinet. It has caused enormous loss of state revenue. If the state had suffered losses of up to billions of rupiah, the question arises: why had the state accepted this so far? Why had state control never been effective in its effort to eliminate this illegal business? Had there been some sort of a ‘concubine relationship’ between state actors and business people, making illegal business difficult to be prevented? This article will try to analyze that the problem of illegal economy is not a new phenomenon and not merely a problem of labeling certain transactions registered and unregistered, but more complicated, because it concerns power relations and power contention between and within state actors and society in their efforts to gain access to tin resources.
