{"id":1596,"date":"2025-08-18T22:49:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2026-04-12T15:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:55:39","slug":"anarchy-in-alifuru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Anarchy in Alifuru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=BAAZVqDzpOe4wiR8CaLD_oJEvsW8k_r43j2m8f0nPZpK9MqpD3c_nCgZ1_fgqtEOiF3kkO3be21V5NnwRU&#038;components=hosted-buttons&#038;disable-funding=venmo&#038;currency=GBP\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Anarchy in Alifuru: The History of Stateless Societies in the Maluku Islands<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Bima Satria Putra<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>In the sprawling seas of the Maluku Islands lies a forgotten history \u2013 not of kings and sultans, but of people who lived without them.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Anarchy in Alifuru<\/em>\u00a0reclaims the stories of the stateless societies of eastern Indonesia, revealing a world where political authority was earned, not inherited, and communities thrived through consensus rather than command. Drawing from early European travelogues, oral folklore, and anarchist anthropology, Bima Satria Putra invites us into a realm where power was shared, and hierarchy was optional. This groundbreaking work flips the script on conventional Indonesian historiography. Instead of focusing on sultanates like Ternate and Tidore, it explores the Alifuru World: a vibrant mosaic of decentralized island societies who chose autonomy over submission. Through vivid accounts of communal deliberations and egalitarian leadership, Putra illustrates how these societies resisted both Islamic state-building and European colonial conquest by refusing to be governed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Anarchy in Alifuru<\/em>\u00a0is a meditation on freedom and the human desire to live without domination. For readers of James C. Scott and David Graeber, this book offers a powerful testament to the ingenuity of societies often dismissed as primitive. In a world increasingly shaped by centralized power, the story of the Alifuru reminds us that another way of organizing life not only existed, but thrived.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Bio:<\/strong> Bima Satria Putra is a writer, researcher, and translator. Interested in the study of history, anthropology, and ecology. His works include: <em>Perang yang Tidak Akan Kita Menangkan: Anarkisme &amp; Sindikalisme dalam Pergerakan Kolonial hingga Revolusi Indonesia (1908-1948)<\/em> and <em>Dayak Mardaheka: Sejarah Masyarakat Tanpa Negara di Pedalaman Kalimantan<\/em>. He is currently conducting research on the Fire Tribes Project and remains committed to writing while serving a fifteen-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ordering Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available direct from Minor Compositions for the special price of \u00a310 + shipping.<\/p>\n<p>Published in collaboration with Page Against the Machine (from Yogyakarta). Sales of these collaboratively produced books will generate funds to support imprisoned comrades in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-S4NHP8WKL7DD6\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"S4NHP8WKL7DD6\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-S4NHP8WKL7DD6\")\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>You can also download the book <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/anarchy-in-alifuru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>136 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, paperback<br \/>\nUK: \u00a316\/ US: $21<br \/>\nISBN 978-1-57027-395-7<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Release to the book trade 1 February 2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Anarchy In Alifuru<\/em> jives incredibly well with and reflects other accounts of anti-state Indigenous peoples across the world\u2026 Though we as modern Anarchists can\u2019t replicate anything in this book, it is a useful waypoint to further center our struggle.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/organisemagazine.org.uk\/2026\/01\/23\/anarchy-in-alifuru-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">roun lalibert\u00e9 in <em>Organise!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anarchy in Alifuru: The History of Stateless Societies in the Maluku Islands Bima Satria Putra In the sprawling seas of the Maluku Islands lies a forgotten history \u2013 not of kings and sultans, but of people who lived without them.\u00a0 Anarchy in Alifuru\u00a0reclaims the stories of the stateless societies of eastern Indonesia, revealing a world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}