R Hadiz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 150014 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Hadiz |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Hadiz |
| FIRMA | HADIZ R |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1223-1554 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 465 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Labouring under Democracy in Indonesia and Turkey
Still the "Opium of the Masses"? Religion and Labour Struggles in Indonesia
The article links the literatures on Indonesian democracy, Islamic politics, and labour struggles through developments and contradictions in the sphere of ideology. It maintains that there is a continuing marginalisation of labour as a social force in Indonesia despite earlier victories in the democratic era. This marginalisation can be understood not just through the specific constellation of social power intrinsic to Indonesian capitalism but a…
The demise of the left and the Islamisation of dissent in Indonesia
The demise of Leftist political traditions has facilitated newer Islamic expressions of socio-political discontent accompanying socio-economic modernisation in Indonesia.This has taken place, most strikingly, in localities that used to be dominated by communist and radical nationalist organisations in the early post-colonial period.Because social grievances related to endemic issues like social injustice are increasingly being framed through Isla…
Indonesia’s missing Left and the Islamisation of dissent
The demise of Leftist political traditions in Indonesia has come to facilitate newer Islamic expressions of socio-political discontent accompanying socio-economic modernisation in localities that used to be dominated by communist and radical nationalist organisations. Because social grievances related to endemic issues like social injustice are increasingly being framed through Islamic cultural references, there will be implications for the worki…
Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
This book provides an important statement on the underlying social dynamics of local politics in Indonesia following the end of the New Order in 1998. It represents the culmination of a substantial and influential body of work by Hadiz on the political economy of Indonesia's post-authoritarian transition.
Uncivil Society
Obituary
Contesting Working-Class Politics in Turkey
This article examines transition in Kocaeli, an industrial city in the north-western part of Turkey, away from left-wing politics and trade unionism in the early 1970s, and toward Islamic politics from the mid-1990s onwards. It does do by investigating the ideological, political, and social transformation of the working class. Based on fieldwork involving in-depth, semistructured interviews conducted with current and former workers and trade unio…
Two Decades ofReformasiin Indonesia
There has been an accentuation of Indonesian democracy’s illiberal\ncharacteristics during the course of reformasi. The religious\nand nativist mobilisation that surrounded the controversial 2017\nJakarta gubernatorial elections was only one manifestation of the\nsort of pressures leading to such accentuation. This article surveys\nthe impacts of a stronger recent turn towards illiberalism across\ndiverse areas of policy making in Indonesia, incl…
The ‘Floating’ Ummah in the Fall of ‘Ahok’ in Indonesia
The article examines the idea of a ‘floating’ ummah in Indonesia today that affects the workings of Indonesian Islamic politics and democracy itself. It is asserted that the ummah , or community of believers, are more disconnected from the large mainstream Islamic organisational vehicles in Indonesia than is often claimed. A considerable cross-section of this community has become increasingly disaffected with the status quo, as social inequalitie…
Imagine All the People? Mobilising Islamic Populism for Right-Wing Politics in Indonesia
Right-wing politics in Indonesia is frequently associated with Islamic populist ideas. In part this is because Islamic organisations played a major role in the army-led destruction of the Indonesian Communist Party in the 1960s. Since then Islamic populism has evolved greatly and in post-authoritarian Indonesia it includes manifestations that see no fundamental contradiction between Islam and neo-liberal market economies as well as those that do.…
Indonesia
Few countries have been burdened with such great expectations as Indonesia and have failed to meet them in the ways expected. Economists have persistently predicted that Indonesia could be an economic giant in the region, challenging the state-led economies of Northeast Asia on the basis of free market policies. After the fall of Soeharto in 1998, pluralist political scientists saw Indonesia as a shining light for democratic transition. More rece…
Indonesia’s Year of Democratic Setbacks
This article suggests that 2017 has been a year of distinctive democratic setbacks in Indonesia. It offers a tentative framework that explains how democratic regression is likely to continue by virtue of the further mainstreaming of conservative Islamic morality and reactionary hyper-nationalism in Indonesian political discourse and practice. It contends that such mainstreaming has been a growing feature of intraoligarchic competition in Indonesi…
Competing populisms in post-authoritarian Indonesia
Populist politics have become more prominent in Indonesia. On the one hand, this is indicated by the presidential elections of 2014, when two rival candidates brandished somewhat different nationalist populist ideas. On the other hand, historically rooted secular nationalist and Islamic-oriented forms of populism have become entangled within elite conflicts. The context is discontent about perceived systemic injustices unaddressed in nearly two d…
Populism in world politics
Populism has become more salient in multiple regions in the world, in developed as well as developing countries. Today it is largely a reaction to social dislocations tied to processes of neoliberal globalisation. As a concept, populism has had a long and contentious history. We suggest that populism has been on the rise alongside new imaginings of what constitutes the ‘people’ and ‘elites’, as the meanings attached to these labels are continuall…
Islamic Populism in Indonesia and the Middle East
In a novel approach to the field of Islamic politics, this provocative new study compares the evolution of Islamic populism in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, to the Middle East. Utilising approaches from historical sociology and political economy, Vedi R. Hadiz argues that competing strands of Islamic politics can be understood as the product of contemporary struggles over power, material resources and the…
S oekarno (1901–70)
Soekarno was an Indonesian nationalist hero, first president and important figure in the Cold War‐era Third World Movement. He played a key role in the formulation of the Indonesian state ideology of Pancasila and in ending Indonesia's experiment with parliamentary democracy in the 1950s. He is still revered in Indonesia as a symbol of Indonesian nationalism.
Capitalism, primitive accumulation and the 1960s' massacres
This article offers a critique of Hilmar Farid's (and to a lesser extent, Colm McNaughton's) contribution in this journal about the 1960s' anti-communist massacres, primitive accumulation and capitalist development in Indonesia. While agreeing that the massacres can be usefully tied to primitive accumulation it is argued that Farid's work displays some serious conceptual misunderstandings about the workings of capitalist development in Indonesia …
Indonesian Politics and Society
Using an exhaustive selection of primary sources, this book presents a rich and textured picture of Indonesian politics and society from 1965 to the dramatic changes which have taken place in recent years. Providing a complete portrait of the Indonesian political landscape, this authoritative reader is an essential resource in understanding the history and contradictions of the New Order, current social and political conditions and the road ahead
A New Islamic Populism and the Contradictions of Development
A new form of Islamic populism has evolved in many parts of the Muslim world. Its emergence is part of the more universal phenomenon of populist responses to the contradictions of globalised capitalism. It is also a consequence of the outcomes of Cold War-era social conflicts and of social-structural transformations in Muslim societies over the last half-century. Specifically, it articulates the rising ambitions and growing frustrations of urban …
The Political Economy of Oligarchy and the Reorganization of Power in Indonesia
Page range: 35-58
Pretext for Mass Murder
Opposing Suharto
The Politics of Economic Liberalisation in Indonesia
Ordering Power
Populism in world politics
Populism has become more salient in multiple regions in the world, in developed as well as developing countries. Today it is largely a reaction to social dislocations tied to processes of neoliberal globalisation. As a concept, populism has had a long and contentious history. We suggest that populism has been on the rise alongside new imaginings of what constitutes the ‘people’ and ‘elites’, as the meanings attached to these labels are continuall…
Decentralization and Democracy in Indonesia
This article assesses some of the major premises of neo-institutionalist explanations of decentralization policy and practices, but focuses especially on the relationship between decentralization and democracy, in the context of the recent and ongoing Indonesian experience with decentralization. In the last two decades 'decentralization' has become, along with 'civil society', 'social capital' and 'good governance', an integral part of the contem…
Imagine All the People? Mobilising Islamic Populism for Right-Wing Politics in Indonesia
Right-wing politics in Indonesia is frequently associated with Islamic populist ideas. In part this is because Islamic organisations played a major role in the army-led destruction of the Indonesian Communist Party in the 1960s. Since then Islamic populism has evolved greatly and in post-authoritarian Indonesia it includes manifestations that see no fundamental contradiction between Islam and neo-liberal market economies as well as those that do.…
Reorganising Power in Indonesia
Ross McLeod's review of our book Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets appeared in the April 2005 edition of this journal. Overall we think that the review
Competing populisms in post-authoritarian Indonesia
Populist politics have become more prominent in Indonesia. On the one hand, this is indicated by the presidential elections of 2014, when two rival candidates brandished somewhat different nationalist populist ideas. On the other hand, historically rooted secular nationalist and Islamic-oriented forms of populism have become entangled within elite conflicts. The context is discontent about perceived systemic injustices unaddressed in nearly two d…
Reorganizing political power in Indonesia
The fall of Soeharto's long-entrenched authoritarian New Order regime in 1998 raised hopes among many about a transition in Indonesia to a liberal democratic system of politics. However, Indonesia's new democratic institutions have been captured and appropriated by predatory interests, many of which were nurtured and incubated in the New Order. These have merely now reconstituted and reinvented themselves in Indonesia's new democracy. The article…
Two Decades ofReformasiin Indonesia
There has been an accentuation of Indonesian democracy’s illiberal\ncharacteristics during the course of reformasi. The religious\nand nativist mobilisation that surrounded the controversial 2017\nJakarta gubernatorial elections was only one manifestation of the\nsort of pressures leading to such accentuation. This article surveys\nthe impacts of a stronger recent turn towards illiberalism across\ndiverse areas of policy making in Indonesia, incl…
A New Islamic Populism and the Contradictions of Development
A new form of Islamic populism has evolved in many parts of the Muslim world. Its emergence is part of the more universal phenomenon of populist responses to the contradictions of globalised capitalism. It is also a consequence of the outcomes of Cold War-era social conflicts and of social-structural transformations in Muslim societies over the last half-century. Specifically, it articulates the rising ambitions and growing frustrations of urban …
Indonesia’s Year of Democratic Setbacks
This article suggests that 2017 has been a year of distinctive democratic setbacks in Indonesia. It offers a tentative framework that explains how democratic regression is likely to continue by virtue of the further mainstreaming of conservative Islamic morality and reactionary hyper-nationalism in Indonesian political discourse and practice. It contends that such mainstreaming has been a growing feature of intraoligarchic competition in Indonesi…
Indonesia
Few countries have been burdened with such great expectations as Indonesia and have failed to meet them in the ways expected. Economists have persistently predicted that Indonesia could be an economic giant in the region, challenging the state-led economies of Northeast Asia on the basis of free market policies. After the fall of Soeharto in 1998, pluralist political scientists saw Indonesia as a shining light for democratic transition. More rece…
Reformasi Total? Labor after Suharto
W orkers were late in joining with students in the tumultuous events of May 1998 that fin ally ended Su harto's thirty-tw o-year ru le of Indonesia.Frustrated and bewildered by mass retrenchments, sky-rocketing prices for basic commodities, and a state-im posed wage freeze, workers found themselves too weak and disorganized to protest effectively against their increasingly dire economic situation.It was only about a week before the fatal shooting…
The Left and Indonesia’s 1960s
This article examines a pivotal decade in the recent history of Indonesian society: the 1960s. It examines the context within which the Left came to be decisively, and violently, defeated as a social and political force. It then studies the consequences of this defeat for Indonesia's subsequent historical trajectory. The article also suggests that history‐writing anywhere is nothing less than the politics of remembering (and forgetting). What is …
The Localization of Power in Southeast Asia
The article analyzes the localization of power in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia after 1998, when the institutional frameworks of the authoritarian New Order of Soeharto quickly unravelled and new ones were rapidly constructed, associated both with electoral democracy and decentralization policy. Comparisons are made in the process with the trajectories of the Philippines and Thailand, two other major post-authoritarian societies in So…
Indonesian Political Islam
This article explores the genesis of Indonesian political Islam and its interactions with the nationalist secular state in the immediate post-colonial era while examining some of the origins of the ‘radical’ stream that has garnered much attention in the current post-authoritarian period. It puts forward the idea that, rather than an outcome of Indonesian democratisation, this stream was in fact the product of authoritarian New Order rule. The ar…
The Political Economy of Oligarchy and the Reorganization of Power in Indonesia
The Rise of Capitaland the Necessity of Political Economy
Indonesia: The Rise of Capital by Richard Robison is regarded as one of the most important books in the study of modern Indonesia. It was also a major instigator of a turn toward political economy in the scholarship on Southeast Asia, more generally in the 1980s. This introductory article to the current feature issue examines the context that made the writing of The Rise of Capital an intellectually necessary endeavour. It also explores the book'…
The ‘Floating’ Ummah in the Fall of ‘Ahok’ in Indonesia
The article examines the idea of a ‘floating’ ummah in Indonesia today that affects the workings of Indonesian Islamic politics and democracy itself. It is asserted that the ummah , or community of believers, are more disconnected from the large mainstream Islamic organisational vehicles in Indonesia than is often claimed. A considerable cross-section of this community has become increasingly disaffected with the status quo, as social inequalitie…
Approaching Islam and politics from political economy
The article traces the trajectories of Islamic politics in Indonesia and Malaysia in relation to the changing political economy of these two countries. The approach adopted is to understand Islamic politics less on the basis of Islamic doctrine, or conflicts over its interpretation, than in connection with the changing social bases of politics, the context established by capitalist economic transformations, the evolution of the post-colonial stat…
The rise of neo-Third Worldism? the Indonesian trajectory and the consolidation of illiberal democracy
This article attempts to achieve a number of things: first it links understandings of the contest over democracy in Indonesia with more general theoretical debates about democratisation in the Third World both during and after the Cold War. It then demonstrates how these theoretical debates over the past several decades have intertwined in some notable instances with ongoing domestic political debates in Indonesia, in ways that may be unexpected.…
Indonesia’s missing Left and the Islamisation of dissent
The demise of Leftist political traditions in Indonesia has come to facilitate newer Islamic expressions of socio-political discontent accompanying socio-economic modernisation in localities that used to be dominated by communist and radical nationalist organisations. Because social grievances related to endemic issues like social injustice are increasingly being framed through Islamic cultural references, there will be implications for the worki…
Political Economy and Islamic Politics
It is argued in this study that the trajectory of Islamic politics in Indonesia has been shaped within larger processes of state formation and socio-economic and political changes associated with the advance of the market economy and the pressures of globalisation. It incorporates the Indonesian case into a vast and well-developed debate that has hitherto focused on North Africa and the Middle East. As such it offers a distinct interpretation tha…
Still the "Opium of the Masses"? Religion and Labour Struggles in Indonesia
The article links the literatures on Indonesian democracy, Islamic politics, and labour struggles through developments and contradictions in the sphere of ideology. It maintains that there is a continuing marginalisation of labour as a social force in Indonesia despite earlier victories in the democratic era. This marginalisation can be understood not just through the specific constellation of social power intrinsic to Indonesian capitalism but a…
Retrieving the Past for the Future? Indonesia and the New Order Legacy
Labor and the politics of structural adjustment in Australia and Indonesia
A noteworthy lacuna in the voluminous literature dedicated to the "globalization" phenomenon has been sustained discussion of the position of organized labor. This article attempts to remedy this deficit by considering the experiences of two geographically adjacent, but very different nations: Australia and Indonesia. Concentrating on the last twenty years or so, when the general restructuring of international economic activity gathered pace, the…
Contesting Working-Class Politics in Turkey
This article examines transition in Kocaeli, an industrial city in the north-western part of Turkey, away from left-wing politics and trade unionism in the early 1970s, and toward Islamic politics from the mid-1990s onwards. It does do by investigating the ideological, political, and social transformation of the working class. Based on fieldwork involving in-depth, semistructured interviews conducted with current and former workers and trade unio…
Privatization or the Reorganization of Dirigism? Indonesian Economic Policy in the 1990s
There are increasing social pressures for changes in the Indonesian economic policy and for greater integration into the world economy. These have arisen from the need to become export competitive in non-oil products and to attract foreign direct investment. Deregulation is underway to meet these needs, but the precise outcomes are not clear because of the complex struggle of interests and ideas involved in the process. The major actors in the st…
Reformasi Total? Labor after Suharto
W orkers were late in joining with students in the tumultuous events of May 1998 that fin ally ended Su harto's thirty-tw o-year ru le of Indonesia.Frustrated and bewildered by mass retrenchments, sky-rocketing prices for basic commodities, and a state-im posed wage freeze, workers found themselves too weak and disorganized to protest effectively against their increasingly dire economic situation.It was only about a week before the fatal shooting…
Labor and the politics of structural adjustment in Australia and Indonesia
A noteworthy lacuna in the voluminous literature dedicated to the "globalization" phenomenon has been sustained discussion of the position of organized labor. This article attempts to remedy this deficit by considering the experiences of two geographically adjacent, but very different nations: Australia and Indonesia. Concentrating on the last twenty years or so, when the general restructuring of international economic activity gathered pace, the…
Retrieving the Past for the Future? Indonesia and the New Order Legacy
Capitalism, Oligarchic Power and the State in Indonesia
Capitalism, Oligarchic Power and the State in Indonesia
[The Asian economic crisis that began in Thailand in mid-1997 precipitated a chain of events that eventually led to the downfall of Indonesia's Soeharto — one of the last of the great Cold-War-era dictators. The end of Soeharto's 32-year rule in 1998 signalled the close of a major chapter in the recent history of Indonesia, as the framework for organising economic and political power that he had carefully crafted proved unsustainable in his absen…
The Indonesian Labour Movement
Southeast Asian Affairs
Made in Indonesia
A Country in Despair
Reorganizing political power in Indonesia
The fall of Soeharto's long-entrenched authoritarian New Order regime in 1998 raised hopes among many about a transition in Indonesia to a liberal democratic system of politics. However, Indonesia's new democratic institutions have been captured and appropriated by predatory interests, many of which were nurtured and incubated in the New Order. These have merely now reconstituted and reinvented themselves in Indonesia's new democracy. The article…
Neo-liberal Reforms and Illiberal Consolidations
10.1080/0022038042000309223
Reorganising Power in Indonesia
Reorganising Power in Indonesia is a new and distinctive analysis of the dramatic fall of Soeharto, the last of the great Cold War capitalist dictators, and of the struggles that reshape power and wealth in Indonesia. The dramatic events of the past two decades are understood essentially in terms of the rise of a complex politico-business oligarchy and the ongoing reorganisation of its power through successive crises, colonising and expropriating…
The rise of neo-Third Worldism? the Indonesian trajectory and the consolidation of illiberal democracy
This article attempts to achieve a number of things: first it links understandings of the contest over democracy in Indonesia with more general theoretical debates about democratisation in the Third World both during and after the Cold War. It then demonstrates how these theoretical debates over the past several decades have intertwined in some notable instances with ongoing domestic political debates in Indonesia, in ways that may be unexpected.…
Decentralization and Democracy in Indonesia
This article assesses some of the major premises of neo-institutionalist explanations of decentralization policy and practices, but focuses especially on the relationship between decentralization and democracy, in the context of the recent and ongoing Indonesian experience with decentralization. In the last two decades 'decentralization' has become, along with 'civil society', 'social capital' and 'good governance', an integral part of the contem…
Reorganising Power in Indonesia
Ross McLeod's review of our book Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets appeared in the April 2005 edition of this journal. Overall we think that the review
Reorganising power in Indonesia
Ross McLeod's review of our book Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets appeared in the April 2005 edition of this journal. Overall we think that the review
The Left and Indonesia’s 1960s
This article examines a pivotal decade in the recent history of Indonesian society: the 1960s. It examines the context within which the Left came to be decisively, and violently, defeated as a social and political force. It then studies the consequences of this defeat for Indonesia's subsequent historical trajectory. The article also suggests that history‐writing anywhere is nothing less than the politics of remembering (and forgetting). What is …
The Localization of Power in Southeast Asia
The article analyzes the localization of power in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia after 1998, when the institutional frameworks of the authoritarian New Order of Soeharto quickly unravelled and new ones were rapidly constructed, associated both with electoral democracy and decentralization policy. Comparisons are made in the process with the trajectories of the Philippines and Thailand, two other major post-authoritarian societies in So…
Towards a Sociological Understanding of Islamic Radicalism in Indonesia
Understanding Social Trajectories
Pacific Affairs
State of Authority
Indonesian Political Islam
This article explores the genesis of Indonesian political Islam and its interactions with the nationalist secular state in the immediate post-colonial era while examining some of the origins of the ‘radical’ stream that has garnered much attention in the current post-authoritarian period. It puts forward the idea that, rather than an outcome of Indonesian democratisation, this stream was in fact the product of authoritarian New Order rule. The ar…
Political Economy and Islamic Politics
It is argued in this study that the trajectory of Islamic politics in Indonesia has been shaped within larger processes of state formation and socio-economic and political changes associated with the advance of the market economy and the pressures of globalisation. It incorporates the Indonesian case into a vast and well-developed debate that has hitherto focused on North Africa and the Middle East. As such it offers a distinct interpretation tha…
No Turkish Delight
This article addresses the inability of Indonesia’s Islamic parties to launch a serious challenge for control over state power through insights obtained via comparisons with the Turkish case. By juxtaposing Indonesia’s PKS (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, Justice and Prosperity Party) and Turkey’s AKP (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, Justice and Development Party), in particular, it offers a political economy-oriented understanding of the limited achievem…
Approaching Islam and politics from political economy
The article traces the trajectories of Islamic politics in Indonesia and Malaysia in relation to the changing political economy of these two countries. The approach adopted is to understand Islamic politics less on the basis of Islamic doctrine, or conflicts over its interpretation, than in connection with the changing social bases of politics, the context established by capitalist economic transformations, the evolution of the post-colonial stat…
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