Democracy in Indonesia

From Stagnation to Regression

Bibliographic Data

ID19907581
EditorsThomas Power, Eve Warburton (0000-0001-7922-2404)
Year2020
Publication date2020-11-23
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDemocracy in Indonesia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherISEAS Publishing (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1355/9789814881524
OpenAlexW1604460568
ISBN9789814881524
Open LibraryOL35880542M
LanguageEN
Citations received42

Indonesia has long been hailed as a rare case of democratic transition and persistence in an era of global democratic setbacks. But as the country enters its third decade of democracy, such laudatory assessments have become increasingly untenable. The stagnation that characterized Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s second presidential term has given way to a more far-reaching pattern of democratic regression under his successor, Joko Widodo. This volume is the first comprehensive study of Indonesia’s contemporary democratic decline. Its contributors identify, explain and debate the signs of regression, including arbitrary state crackdowns on freedom of speech and organization, the rise of vigilantism, deepening political polarization, populist mobilization, the dysfunction of key democratic institutions, and the erosion of checks and balances on executive power. They ask why Indonesia, until recently considered a beacon of democratic exceptionalism, increasingly conforms to the global pattern of democracy in retreat

Democracy · Political science · Politics · Educational Curriculum and Learning Methods · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Law · Pancasila Values in Education · Congresses · Elections · politics and government · Populism

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