Co-opting Good Governance Reform

The Rise of a Not-so-Reformist Leader in Kebumen, Central Java

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ID6233607
AutoresIna Choi, Yuki Fukuoka (0000-0002-2245-9264)
Ano2015
Volume23
Fascículo1
Páginas83-101
Data de publicação2015-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAsian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0218-5377 • E-ISSN: 1750-7812
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02185377.2014.982666
OpenAlexW1984398970
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas27

Challenging the existing literature, which tends to downplay the impact of good governance reform in post-Suharto Indonesia, the article suggests that greater intervention by international donors, combined with the process of decentralisation, has influenced the dynamics of political competition at the local level. It suggests that the increasing availability of international aid has provided local elites with an option to engage in a new form of patronage politics that relies less on old instruments, such as money politics and violence. By selectively committing themselves to good governance reform, Indonesian local elites can now seek a new source of power in the form of support from international donors, with which they can raise their profiles as 'reformists' and consolidate power, only to engage in familiar, if less blatant, forms of patronage politics. The article highlights such a dimension of local politics with reference to the case of Kebumen's former regent, Rustriningsih.Keywords: IndonesiaLocal PoliticsDecentralisationGood GovernanceInternational Aid AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to thank two anonymous reviewers of Asian Journal of Political Science for their comments, questions and suggestions for revisions. This work was first presented at the 63rd annual conference of the Political Studies Association, Cardiff, UK, March 2013. The authors would like to thank the participants for their questions and comments.Additional informationFundingResearch for this article by Yuki Fukuoka was supported by JSPS KAKENHI [grant number: 24830092 and 25780101

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