A proposal to strengthen Indonesian democracy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6041029
AutoresJohn G O''Reilly (0000-0002-7792-9438, Independent Scholar Burlingame California USA), John O'Reilly (Collaborative Drug Discovery (United States), autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen15
Número3
Páginas520-547
Fecha de publicación2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Politics & Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1943-0787 • E-ISSN: 1943-0779
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aspp.12705
OpenAlexW4382987329
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas23

For centuries, Java‐based rulers employed economic, political, and military measures to control the myriad islands lying in the eastern reaches of the Indonesian archipelago. Following Indonesia's transformation into a presidential democracy, the country's leaders modified this strategy and sought to maintain regional control by implementing economic and political decentralization measures on a massive scale. These measures also gave the eastern populations an appreciable influence on presidential elections. However, population projections and recent election data indicate that inhabitants of eastern Indonesia may become electorally marginalized because the region's population growth is being far outpaced by that of Java and Sumatra. Such marginalization could lead to social unrest, separatist movements, and other malevolent behaviors that threaten the country's democracy. To address this scenario, this article suggests that implementing a presidential voting framework based on the US Electoral College could strengthen Indonesia's democracy by significantly empowering voters in the country's eastern provinces

Decentralization · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Indonesian · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Presidential election · Presidential system · Sociology · Unrest · Voting · Asian Studies and History · Indonesian Election Politics and Participation · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies