Vedi R Hadiz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vedi R Hadiz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vedi R |
| FAMILY NAME | Hadiz |
| SIGNATURE | HADIZ V R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 273 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Oligarchy and the End of Reformasi in Indonesia: Power Reorganised
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…
Contesting Working-Class Politics in Turkey: Social Transformations, Islam, and the Left
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: Its Illiberal Turn
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…
Indonesia’s Year of Democratic Setbacks: Towards a New Phase of Deepening Illiberalism
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: A comparative cross-regional perspective
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…
Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia
This study examines the collective progression of Islamic politics between points of dissent and positions of power. It brings about a more a serious understanding of Islamic politics by critically tr
Indonesian Politics and Society: A Reader
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
The Political Economy of Oligarchy and the Reorganization of Power in Indonesia
Page range: 35-58
State of Authority: The State in Society in Indonesia
Towards a Sociological Understanding of Islamic Radicalism in Indonesia
Understanding Social Trajectories: Structure and Actor in the Democratization Debate
Pacific Affairs
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…
Reorganising power in Indonesia: The politics of Oligarchy in an age of markets
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 Politics of Economic Development in Indonesia: Contending Perspectives
Despite increased Western interest in Indonesian economic growth, domestic interpretations remain largely unknown outside Indonesia and have rarely been available in English. Translating key speeches and articles from the political debates surrounding Indonesian economic development, the authors present and analyse trends in development thinking by leading Indonesian figures over the last thirty years
Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets
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: A Critique of Neo-Institutionalist Perspectives
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…
The Indonesian Labour Movement: Resurgent or Constrained
Southeast Asian Affairs
A Country in Despair: Indonesia between 1997 and 2000
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…
Workers and the State in New Order Indonesia
New order Indonesia has undergone a process of sustained industrialization. This has led to the emergence of a new urban industrial working class more inclined to organize independently of the state. Workers have been increasingly involved in industrial unrest in the 1990s, despite stringent state controls over labour. This text provides theoretical analysis on the role and prospects of organized labour in late industrializing countries. With the…
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…
Populism in world politics: A comparative cross-regional perspective
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: A Critique of Neo-Institutionalist Perspectives
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: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets
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…
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…
Two Decades ofReformasiin Indonesia: Its Illiberal Turn
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…
Indonesia’s Year of Democratic Setbacks: Towards a New Phase of Deepening Illiberalism
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…
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 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…
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…
Contesting Working-Class Politics in Turkey: Social Transformations, Islam, and the Left
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…
Towards a Sociological Understanding of Islamic Radicalism in Indonesia
Reorganising power in Indonesia: The politics of Oligarchy in an age of markets
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
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…
Workers and the State in New Order Indonesia
New order Indonesia has undergone a process of sustained industrialization. This has led to the emergence of a new urban industrial working class more inclined to organize independently of the state. Workers have been increasingly involved in industrial unrest in the 1990s, despite stringent state controls over labour. This text provides theoretical analysis on the role and prospects of organized labour in late industrializing countries. With the…
The Indonesian Labour Movement: Resurgent or Constrained
Southeast Asian Affairs
A Country in Despair: Indonesia between 1997 and 2000
Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets
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: A Critique of Neo-Institutionalist Perspectives
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: The politics of Oligarchy in an age of markets
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 Politics of Economic Development in Indonesia: Contending Perspectives
Despite increased Western interest in Indonesian economic growth, domestic interpretations remain largely unknown outside Indonesia and have rarely been available in English. Translating key speeches and articles from the political debates surrounding Indonesian economic development, the authors present and analyse trends in development thinking by leading Indonesian figures over the last thirty years
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: Structure and Actor in the Democratization Debate
Pacific Affairs
State of Authority: The State in Society in Indonesia
The Political Economy of Oligarchy and the Reorganization of Power in Indonesia
Page range: 35-58
Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia
This study examines the collective progression of Islamic politics between points of dissent and positions of power. It brings about a more a serious understanding of Islamic politics by critically tr
Indonesian Politics and Society: A Reader
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
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…
Indonesia’s Year of Democratic Setbacks: Towards a New Phase of Deepening Illiberalism
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: A comparative cross-regional perspective
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…
Two Decades ofReformasiin Indonesia: Its Illiberal Turn
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…
Contesting Working-Class Politics in Turkey: Social Transformations, Islam, and the Left
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…
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…
Oligarchy and the End of Reformasi in Indonesia: Power Reorganised
Political science (24 works) · Asian Studies and History (23 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Political economy (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Democracy (10 works) · Development economics (9 works) · Indonesian (7 works)