Democracy in Indonesia: From Stagnation to Regression?

Published by ISEAS Publishing 2020

Democracy in Indonesia

From Stagnation to Regression?

Edited by: Thomas Power and Eve Warburton

https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814881524

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Tables and figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
Glossary Publicly Available Download PDF	xviii
1 The decline of Indonesian democracy Thomas Power and Eve Warburton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Historical and Comparative Perspectives
2 Indonesia’s democracy in a comparative perspective Allen Hicken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3 Indonesia’s tenuous democratic success and survival Dan Slater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Part 2 Polarisation and Populism
4 How polarised is Indonesia and why does it matter? Eve Warburton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5 Divided Muslims: militant pluralism, polarisation and democratic backsliding Nava Nuraniyah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
6 Is populism a threat to Indonesian democracy? Liam Gammon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
7 Islamic populism and Indonesia’s illiberal democracy Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Part 3 Popular Support for Democracy
8 Electoral losers, democratic support and authoritarian nostalgia Burhanuddin Muhtadi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
9 How popular conceptions of democracy shape democratic support in Indonesia Diego Fossati and Ferran Martinez i Coma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Part 4 Democratic Institutions
10 Indonesian parties revisited: systemic exclusivism, electoral personalisation and declining intraparty democracy Marcus Mietzner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
11 The media and democratic decline Ross Tapsell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
12 The economic dimensions of Indonesia’s democratic quality: a subnational approach1 Puspa Delima Amri and Mochamad Pasha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
13 A state of surveillance? Freedom of expression under the Jokowi presidency Ken M.P. Setiawan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Part 5 Law, Security and Disorder
14 Assailing accountability: law enforcement politicisation, partisan coercion and executive aggrandisement under the Jokowi administration Thomas P. Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
15 In the state’s stead? Vigilantism and policing of religious offence in Indonesia Sana Jaffrey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
16 Rumour, identity and violence in contemporary Indonesia: evidence from elections in West Kalimantan Irsyad Rafsadie, Dyah Ayu Kartika and Siswo Mulyartono Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
17 Electoral violence in Indonesia 20 years after reformasi Risa J. Toha and S.P. Harish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 420
Keywords: Political Ideology

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Published: November 23, 2020
ISBN: 9789814881524