The practice of alley gating in contemporary Jakarta: Visualizing the cross-class proliferation and territorial contestation

Abstract

This paper provides empirical data on the community-based security practice of installing alley gates in Jakarta. Studies of gated communities in Indonesia have associated gating with the latent class conflict. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative surveys of alley gate adoption, this paper shows that alley gating is a cross-class phenomenon. Moreover, the level of community's vigilance, that is, the degree of social capital in term of local security activities is presented as an alternative variable that can accommodate both the cross-class proliferation of gating and the local trajectory of gating.