Mulyadi Sumarto

Social Policy and Society

Page 629-643 | Published online:  20 July 2020

Abstract

Anchored on the global welfare regime literature, this article discusses three key themes: welfare regime change, the drivers of change, and the implication of the regime change toward insecurity in Southeast Asia. This article focuses on welfare regimes in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand mainly because these countries experienced high economic growth and were correspondingly affected by the 1997-Asian financial crisis. However, their response to the crisis differed due to their distinctive historical-colonial legacies. The article argues that the regimes shifted from productivist to a more inclusive regime partly as public health programs reached citizens previously uncovered. However, the timing, pace, and direction of welfare reform met social unrest, and fundamentally brought to the fore questions of ‘ontological security”. The article concludes that the three regimes cannot substantiate a shift towards ‘secure’ welfare regimes as they continue to rely heavily on family and community for welfare provision to overcome social risk.

Sumarto, Mulyadi. 2020. “Insecurity and Historical Legacies in Welfare Regime Change in Southeast Asia – Insights from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand”. dalam Social Policy and Society, 19(4), h. 629-643.

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