Protes Massa Untuk Perubahan Kebijakan Opiumregie : Gerakan Anti-Opium di Hindia Belanda, 1900-1940

Abstract

Abstract: This research focuses on the anti-opium movement in the Dutch East Indies in the early 20th century. This research seeks to answer the problem of the anti-opium movement in the Dutch East Indies; how mass protests for changes in the Opiumregie policy in the anti-opium movement in the Dutch East Indies. I use the Political Sociology approach and Collective Action theory to analyze the competitive action between the government and the people of the Dutch East Indies. The Opiumregie policy, which was expected by the community to regulate the opium trade, was used by the Dutch East Indies Government only for profit, which resulted in a decrease in the level of health and bad behavior of the Dutch East Indies people. This research found that people carried out anti-opium movements in various regions in the Dutch East Indies as a reaction to disappointment with the government in implementing the Opiumregie policy. In addition, this study found that the anti-opium movement carried out by individuals, communities, Islamic organizations, and several private associations had one common goal, namely to demand changes in government policies on opium. Efforts made in the anti-opium movement included building Paviljoen (hospitals and rehabilitation clinics), anti-opium congresses, anti-opium campaigns, and eradicating opium suction equipment.