Relasi Kuasa di Perkebunan Deli:Kuli Kontrak

dalam Jejaring Penguasa Lokal dan Pihak Belanda

Jeni Shita

Alumnus Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia

Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, Universitas Negeri Jakarta

jennyshita@yahoo.com

Abstract

This writing discusses the relations of power among Dutch colonial, contracted slaves, and the local government in Deli, East Sumatra. This writing is interested in scrutinizing the relations of power among the Dutch colonial, contracted slaves and the sultan (the local king) in Deli plantation in the early 20th century by the use of postcolonial and the concept of power by Foucault as written in an novel by Emil W. Aulia entitled Berjuta-juta dari Deli: Satoe Hikajat Koeli Contract. The relations of power among these three parties ran unequally. In other words these relations did not share the same strength. Consequently, Dutch’s power and sovereignty made contracted slaves lived under Dutch’s control.