Dilemmas of democratic consolidation in Indonesia

Davidson, Jamie S.

doi:10.1080/09512740903068354

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“…Scholars tend to agree, however, that whereas Indonesia has developed a formal democracy, various features impede the deepening of this democratic potential (see e.g. Hadiwinata & Schuck, 2007;Davidson, 2009;Mietzner, 2012a;Aspinall, 2010aAspinall, , 2010b. Importantly, Mietzner observes both a stagnation in the democratization process since 2005 and deliberate attempts by anti-reformist elite to roll back democratic reforms (2012a).…”

Section: Indonesiamentioning

confidence: 98%

NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies

Borgh¹,

Terwindt²

2014

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Non-governmental public action (NGPA) by and for disadvantaged and marginalized people has become increasingly significant over the past two decades. This new book series is designed to make a fresh and original contribution to the understanding of NGPA. It presents the findings of innovative and policy-relevant research carried out by established and new scholars working in collaboration with researchers across the world. The series is international in scope and includes both theoretical and empirical work.The series marks a departure from previous studies in this area in at least two important respects. First, it goes beyond a singular focus on developmental NGOs or the voluntary sector to include a range of non-governmental public actors such as advocacy networks, campaigns and coalitions, trades unions, peace groups, rights-based groups, cooperatives and social movements. Second, the series is innovative in stimulating a new approach to international comparative research that promotes comparison of the so-called developing world with the so-called developed world, thereby querying the conceptual utility and relevance of categories such as North and South.

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Section: Indonesiamentioning

confidence: 98%

NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies

Borgh¹,

Terwindt²

2014

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“…Preman gangs have been drawn into electoral competition as key actors, available for hire particularly to suppress rival candidacies, and as the producers of violence in ethnic riots (Wilson 2006). Government or private developers have also used gangs for hire to clear urban poor communities from project sites (Davidson 2008;HRW 2006). In all of these cases, the impulse to attack people based on who they are or what they have -attached closely to the authoritarian impulse -is managed here by private sub-contractors of violence, in ways that complement, but also allow liberalizing processes associated with democratization to exist alongside efforts to prevent new political groups and ideas from developing momentum.…”

Section: Beyond Disaggregation: Authoritarianism As Repressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Elections, repression and authoritarian survival in post-transition Indonesia and the Philippines

Boudreau

2009

The Pacific Review

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This paper compares post-transition Philippines and Indonesia, examining the ways in which authoritarian practices survive and are shaped by regime transition. It examines the transition process in each case, to identify the problems of management and control that regime elites set for themselves in the post-dictatorship period. It is argued that Philippine elites set out to disaggregate and domesticate an already mobilized opposition movement, while the Indonesian authorities strove to keep similar popular politics from mobilizing. The paper then considers how these political objectives find expression in the structuring of two important institutional fields -the electoral and policy making processes -concluding with an examination of how these considerations influence patterns of repression. In particular, the paper also investigates whether repression targets primarily proscribed modes of activity, or sets out to threaten and intimidate proscribed organizations and people. Differences in electoral and policy processes, as well as in patterns of repression, demonstrate the ways in which authoritarianism can survive regime transitions and can undermine the promise of democracy in the postdictatorship period.

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“…73. A far from complete list of such writers would include KuskridhoAmbardi (2008), MichaelBuehler(2010), JamieDavidson (2009), Gerry vanKlinken (2009), Marcus Mietzner (2007, andDan Slater (2004). I have myself authored pieces in this vein (e.g., Aspinall 2010 (Irony); see alsoAspinall and Van Klinken 2011).…”

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