Indonesia’s Approaching Elections

A Year of Voting Dangerously

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6286840
AutoresDonald K Emmerson (autor correspondente)
Ano2004
Volume15
Fascículo1
Páginas94-108
Data de publicação2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2004.0008
OpenAlexW2006384439
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas3

Indonesia’s democratic experiment is scheduled to undergo an unprecedented series of political tests in 2004: legislative elections at national, provincial and district levels in April; the first round of a first-ever direct presidential election in July; and if no candidate wins an absolute majority on the first round, a second round of presidential balloting in September. These contests could exacerbate underlying cleavages, and the results could facilitate eventual deadlock between executive and legislative institutions. The greater danger, however, lies in the chance that future leaders may fail to alleviate corruption, violence, and poverty, discrediting democracy in the eyes of a public more concerned with performance than procedures

Political science · Politics · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements