ThePancasilaDelusion

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3985369
AutoresPranoto Iskandar (0000-0001-8553-1692, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen46
Número4
Páginas723-735
Fecha de publicación2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00472336.2016.1195430
OpenAlexW3122854723
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas10

Rather than producing a new liberal democracy, Indonesia's sudden democratising process that started in 1998 has produced a mere electoral democracy. This commentary argues that this situation cannot be separated from the preservation of the Five Principles, or the Pancasila, in the political reform agenda (reformasi). In this case, the Indonesian version of exceptionalism (national self-righteousness) has unwittingly legitimised some fundamental deviations from internationally well-established practices in global constitutionalism as the post Suharto Indonesia proceeds to "electoralise" its public life. Indonesia's version of exceptionalism might best be described in an unabated conviction about the inviolable nature of Pancasila in national political life and beyond. This Pancasila delusion has gone further with the introduction of some legal efforts to prosecute any sacrileges against it. To make matters worse, this delusional conviction in Pancasila has stubbornly featured in Indonesia's political thinking, which eventually has also prompted the process of reformasi to drift from one ad hoc response to another

Constitutionalism · Conviction · Democracy · Exceptionalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Indonesian Election Politics and Participation · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Law