JOBNAME: No Job Name PAGE: 1 SESS: 11 OUTPUT: Tue Jul 10 17:02:41 2012 /v2451/blackwell/journals/ciso_v24_i2/ciso_1072 Making Security Work for the Majority: Reflections on Two Districts in Jakarta ABDOUMALIQ SIMONE Goldsmiths College, University of London ACHMAD UZAIR FAUZAN Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Indonesia Abstract Global urban theory has placed increased emphasis on the ways in which residents from different walks of life have created heterogeneous spaces, livelihoods and politi- cal sensibilities. Much of this analysis deals with the importance of discernible forms of belonging, organization, and identity as the tools through which relationships among residents and spaces are managed and secured. For residents of mixed income, mixed use areas of the urban cores of megacities in the so-called Global South, securing livelihoods have also depended upon sensibilities and practices that open up multiple venues of collaboration among distinct backgrounds, capacities, and interests. They have relied upon intricate local political and social practices that that foster more diffuse and uncertain intersections—where time, effort, money, and affiliation are “untied” from their usual social anchors. Taking the phenomena of sporadic explosions of violence in Tanah Tinggi and the everyday piecing together of “nationhood” in Kramat Sentiong—two neighboring districts in central Jakarta—the article explores ways in which it is possible for localities to sustain a plurality of livelihoods and initiatives. Part One: The ruses and fixes of urban security I n the now prolific literature on megacities in the so-called Global South, much attention is placed on the growing middle class and the intractable problems of the urban poor. But knowledge of the “in- between” remains limited—of what is perhaps the “majority” of urban residents. This majority includes a wide range of professions, workers, livelihoods and ways of life. It includes police, nurses, teachers, drivers, storekeepers, secretaries, salespersons, factory workers, artisans, market- ers, technicians, journeymen—to list a few. Urban theorists such as Ananya Roy (2009, 2011), Jennifer Rob- inson (2002, 2006, 2011), Colin MacFarlane (2007, 2011) and Ash Amin (2006) have incisively pointed out the need to better understand the ways in which cities in the South were actually developed. How did cities come to encompass so many different realities and times? These are cities that have spawned new infrastructures and lifestyles at rapid speeds and yet retain significant areas of both incremental improve- ments over time and impoverishment. A substantial literature on “post- City & Society, Vol. 24, Issue 2, pp. 129–149, ISSN 0893-0465, eISSN 1548-744X. © 2012 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-744X.2012.01072.x. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 1