Emerging Local Politics In Indonesia

Author : Wawan Sobari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789819946228

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Emerging Local Politics in Indonesia by Wawan Sobari Pdf

This book provides a richer understanding of democratic local politics in Indonesia after the implementation of local direct elections in 2005. Co-published with the University of Airlangga Press, it confronts the question as to why incumbent political leaders succeed and fail in their bid for re-election. By focusing on urban and rural districts in East Java, one of the most populated regions in Indonesia, the work unpacks the general trends of local Indonesian politics, drawing from an empirically sound and theoretically well-grounded case study. The author demonstrates that good policy performance does not guarantee the political survival of the incumbent, and reversibly, bad policy performance does not necessarily mean losing political power. It considers the core political strategies of populism, rivalry, and tangibility and cautions that—rather than helping liberal democracy to grow—these strategies support patronage-driven democracy. Within this system, a small number of vital protectors and defenders control patronage, and, problematically, exert influential control over the country’s electoral processes. Relevant to scholars and students in Indonesian studies, and within political science and Asian studies more broadly, this book follows a gripping and nuanced narrative that explains the relationship between policy choices, informal politics, voting behavior, and political survival in Indonesia.

Author : Diego Fossati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9814762334

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The State of Local Politics in Indonesia by Diego Fossati Pdf

Decentralization reforms in Indonesia have empowered local government with substantial powers. Local politics therefore constitutes a privileged arena for the study of democratic consolidation in this country. Research on local Indonesian politics is based almost exclusively on case-study analysis and qualitative work. As a result, while we have accumulated considerable knowledge on political elites, we know little about ordinary voters. This paper analyses a rich, original dataset with survey data from the cities of Medan in North Sumatra, Samarinda in East Kalimantan, and Surabaya in East Java. These three surveys, fielded shortly after the implementation of local direct elections on 9 December 2015, offer an unprecedented opportunity to learn about how various aspects of local politics are experienced by voters. After an introduction on local direct elections and the three field sites, I focus on the main themes emerging form survey data, namely evaluation of local government, experience of electoral campaigns, and voting behaviour. Findings reveal commonalities and differences in local politics across the three cities. Voters in Medan, Samarinda and Surabaya are rather similar in their evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of local government performance, in their experience of electoral campaigns, in how they account for voting choices and evaluate candidates. However, they also differ in their satisfaction with and trust in local institutions, and in their degree of political interest, participation, and knowledge. The paper concludes with a discussion of the relevance of the finding for our understanding of Indonesian politics.

Author : Wawan Sobari.
Publisher : Airlangga University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786026606082

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Patronage Driven Democracy by Wawan Sobari. Pdf

This work builds on the research for my PhD in the Department of Politics and Public Policy, the Flinders University of South Australia. Many people and institutions have contributed to complete my study. I cannot mention all of them here, but I have to mention a few. Associate Professor Janet McIntyre, the principal supervisor and academic adviser during my research higher degree study. She encouraged me to better understanding human value-rationality, contexts and pragmatism in the issues of power and democracy. Dr Craig Matheson has expanded my understanding of rational irrationality in voting that shaped my work at the early stage. Prof Dr Yogi Sugito (the former Rector of Universitas Brawijaya) and Prof Dr Darsono Wisadirana (Dean of Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Brawijaya) who strongly encouraged me to study abroad. Prof Ifar Subagio PhD and his staffs at the International Office of Universitas Brawijaya had given me administrative and financial supports. My colleagues at the Political Science Department, Universitas Brawijaya, particularly to Dr Sholih Muadi, Wawan E. Kuswandoro, M.Si, and M. Faishal Aminuddin, M.Si who voluntarily assisted me with logistic and data supports during the fieldwork. Also, to Dwi Budi Santosa PhD for his permit to use local budget (APBD) data collected in the project of East Java Public Expenditure Analysis.

Author : Aris Ananta,Evi Nurvidya Arifin,Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9812303227

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Emerging Democracy in Indonesia by Aris Ananta,Evi Nurvidya Arifin,Leo Suryadinata Pdf

In 2004, Indonesia had a second democratic election, which was also conducted in a peaceful and orderly manner. This book discusses Indonesia's transition towards democracy through the parliamentary and presidential elections, including an analysis of party activity in the provinces, in 2004.

Author : Edward Aspinall
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814515245

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Local Power & Politics in Indonesia by Edward Aspinall Pdf

Indonesia is experiencing an historic and dramatic shift in political and economic power from the centre to the local level. The collapse of the highly centralised Soeharto regime allowed long-repressed local aspirations to come to the fore. The new Indonesian Government then began one of the world's most radical decentralisation programmes, under which extensive powers are being devolved to the district level. In every region and province, diverse popular movements and local claimants to state power are challenging the central authorities.This book is the first comprehensive coverage on decentralisation in Indonesia. It contains contributions from leading academics and policy-makers on a wide range of topics relating to democratisation, devolution and the blossoming of local-level politics.

Author : Henk Schulte Nordholt,Geert Arend van Klinken
Publisher : Brill
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015069320110

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Renegotiating Boundaries by Henk Schulte Nordholt,Geert Arend van Klinken Pdf

This volume studies the crisis Indonesia plunged into in 1998 after 32 years of enforced stability. Democratization, decentralization and emerging ethnic and religious identities are looked into.

Author : Longgina Novadona Bayo,Purwo Santoso,Willy Purna Samadhi
Publisher : Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786024335649

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In Search of Local Regime In Indonesia by Longgina Novadona Bayo,Purwo Santoso,Willy Purna Samadhi Pdf

Democracy is frequently considered a single (and thus uniform) national programme. However, political structures and opportunities differ clearly in various contexts, and as such they have their own influences and consequences. The study of democracy and democratisation must be reinforced with research that emphasises local perspective over national ones, for it is at the local level that different centres of power interact and understandings of genuine democratic practices are created. It is in this spirit that this book attempts to examine the diverse problem of democracy and democratisation in various Indonesian localities, while also underscoring the importance of considering asymmetrical approaches to democratisation. A mapping of the different local regimes in Indonesia and necessary to understand how they respond to or even bypass the practice of democracy. This book, drawing on eleven case studies, reaches the conclusion that the varied local regimes in Indonesia can be grouped into five categories: formalist/elitist, consociational, pluralist/compromistic, socio-cultural, and formalist/deliberative. Through its mapping of local regimes in Indonesia, this book offer a new passion for the continued and substantive (re)setting of democratisation in Indonesia, which need not be limited to electoral democracy, but may rely on asymmetrical democracy—a democracy that understands and accommodates localities and fundamental for it development. The future democratisation of Indonesia can be truly “ in the regions, from the regions, for Indonesia”. Using such a logic, democracy will be manifested through a bottom-up process, and therefore offer the ability to jointly manages Indonesia’s unity in diversity.

Author : Nankyung Choi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136649172

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Local Politics in Indonesia by Nankyung Choi Pdf

Competitive elections have become an institutionalized feature of contemporary Indonesia’s politics. This, together with other considerations, makes it reasonable to call Indonesia the world’s third largest democracy. Nonetheless, democratic elections in Indonesia are both more complex and interesting than is commonly understood. This book explores how local elections in Indonesia have affected the development and dynamics of Indonesia’s fledgling democracy. Based on fine-grained analyses of elections in five localities, the book shows how Indonesia’s transition to direct elections of local government executives has transformed party politics and elite development at local levels of governance. Employing the methods of political anthropology and informed by a critical reading of theories of democracy and decentralization, the book presents detailed analyses of elections in five localities across four Indonesian provinces. The book calls attention to the ambiguous relation between formal democratic reforms and political behavior. It illustrates how local elite politics has evolved within the context of political and administrative reforms, whose announced goals are to improve the representativeness and responsiveness of political institutions. This book provides a window onto local political processes that will be of interest to students and scholars of politics in Southeast Asia and beyond.

Author : Maribeth Erb,Priyambudi Sulistiyanto
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812308412

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Deepening Democracy in Indonesia? by Maribeth Erb,Priyambudi Sulistiyanto Pdf

Since the fall of long-reigning President Soeharto, in 1998, Indonesia has been in an era of transition, away from an authoritarian regime, and on a quest for democracy. This quest started with decentralization laws implemented in 2001, which gave greater autonomy to the regions, and continued with the direct elections for the national and local legislatures and the President in 2004. The latest development in this democratization process is the implementation of a system for the direct election of regional leaders, which began in 2005; the first round of elections across the nation for all governors, mayors and district heads was completed in 2008. Authors of the chapters in this volume, the result of a workshop in Singapore in 2006, present data from across the archipelago for these first direct elections for local leaders and give their assessment as to how far these elections have contributed to a deepening democracy.

Author : Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789971698423

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Indonesian Women and Local Politics by Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi Pdf

In an important social change, female Muslim political leaders in Java have enjoyed considerable success in direct local elections following the fall of Suharto in Indonesia. Indonesian Women and Local Politics shows that Islam, gender, and social networks have been decisive in their political victories. Islamic ideas concerning female leadership provide a strong religious foundation for their political campaigns. However, their approach to women's issues shows that female leaders do not necessarily adopt a woman's perspectives when formulating policies. This new trend of Muslim women in politics will continue to shape the growth and direction of democratization in local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia and will color future discourse on gender, politics, and Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004260436

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Renegotiating Boundaries by Anonim Pdf

For decades almost the only social scientists who visited Indonesia’s provinces were anthropologists. Anybody interested in politics or economics spent most of their time in Jakarta, where the action was. Our view of the world’s fourth largest country threatened to become simplistic, lacking that essential graininess. Then, in 1998, Indonesia was plunged into a crisis that could not be understood with simplistic tools. After 32 years of enforced stability, the New Order was at an end. Things began to happen in the provinces that no one was prepared for. Democratization was one, decentralization another. Ethnic and religious identities emerged that had lain buried under the blanket of the New Order’s modernizing ideology. Unfamiliar, sometimes violent forms of political competition and of rentseeking came to light. Decentralization was often connected with the neo-liberal desire to reduce state powers and make room for free trade and democracy. To what extent were the goals of good governance and a stronger civil society achieved? How much of the process was ‘captured’ by regional elites to increase their own powers? Amidst the new identity politics, what has happened to citizenship? These are among the central questions addressed in this book. This volume is the result of a two-year research project at KITLV. It brings together an international group of 24 scholars – mainly from Indonesia and the Netherlands but also from the United States, Australia, Germany, Canada and Portugal.

Author : John H. Walker,Glenn Banks,Minako Sakai
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789971694791

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The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia by John H. Walker,Glenn Banks,Minako Sakai Pdf

The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia is a thought-provoking examination of local politics and the dynamics of power at Indonesia's geographic and social margins. After the fall of Suharto in 1998 and the introduction of a policy of decentralization in 2001, local stakeholders secured and consolidated decision-making power, and set about negotiating new relations with Jakarta. The volume deals with power struggles and local-national tensions, looking among other things at resource control, the historical roots of regional identity politics, and issues relating to Chinese-Indonesians. The authors develop information in ways that transcend the post-colonial territorial boundaries of Indonesia in the Malay-Indonesian archipelago, and use case studies to show how the changes described have galvanized Indonesian politics at the cultural and geographical peripheries.

Author : Ryan Tans,East-West Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0866382356

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Mobilizing Resources, Building Coalitions by Ryan Tans,East-West Center Pdf

What have been the local political consequences of Indonesia's decentralization and electoral reforms? Some recent scholarship has emphasized continuity with Suharto's New Order, arguing that under the new rules, old elites have used money and intimidation to capture elected office. Studies detail the widespread practice of "money politics," in which candidates exchange patronage for support from voters and parties. Yet significant variation characterizes Indonesia's local politics, which suggests the need for an approach that differentiates contrasting power arrangements. This study of three districts in North Sumatra province compares local politicians according to their institutional resource bases and coalitional strategies. Even if all practice money politics, they form different coalition types that depend on diverse institutions for political resources. The three ideal types of coalitions are political mafias, party machines, and mobilizing coalitions. Political mafias have a resource base limited to local state institutions and businesses; party machines bridge local and supra-local institutions; and mobilizing coalitions incorporate social organizations and groups of voters. Due to contrasting resource bases, the coalitions have different strategic option "menus," and they may experiment with various political tactics. The framework developed here plausibly applies in other Indonesian districts to the extent that similar resource bases--namely local state institutions, party networks, and strong social and business organizations--are available to elites in other places.

Author : J. Harriss,K. Stokke,Olle Törnquist
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230502802

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Politicising Democracy by J. Harriss,K. Stokke,Olle Törnquist Pdf

There is a major contradiction in contemporary politics: there has been a wave of democratization that has swept across much of the world, while at the same time globalization appears to have reduced the social forces that have built democracy historically. This book, by an international group of authors, analyzes the ways in which local politics in developing countries - often neglected in work on democratization - render democratic experiments more or less successful in realizing substantial democracy.

Author : Tri Ratnawati,Flinders University. Dept. of Asian Studies and Languages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:893444583

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The State and Local Politics in Maluku in the New Order Indonesia by Tri Ratnawati,Flinders University. Dept. of Asian Studies and Languages Pdf