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Indonesia’s Year of Democratic Setbacks: Towards a New Phase of Deepening Illiberalism?

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  • Vedi R. Hadiz

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This article suggests that 2017 has been a year of distinctive democratic setbacks in Indonesia. It offers a tentative framework that explains how democratic regression is likely to continue by virtue of the further mainstreaming of conservative Islamic morality and reactionary hyper-nationalism in Indonesian political discourse and practice. It contends that such mainstreaming has been a growing feature of intraoligarchic competition in Indonesia, the effect of which is to accentuate longstanding illiberal features within Indonesian democracy. While the article focuses on the conflicts surrounding the highly polarising and emotive Jakarta gubernatorial election of 2017 in order to expand on this framework, other controversies are also discussed, including those regarding corruption eradication and continuing impediments to a national ‘reconciliation’ with former Indonesian communists. Developments in Indonesia are set against a global background characterised by growing threats to liberal democracy and the emergence of anti-pluralist political impulses in a range of societies.

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  • Vedi R. Hadiz, 2017. "Indonesia’s Year of Democratic Setbacks: Towards a New Phase of Deepening Illiberalism?," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(3), pages 261-278, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bindes:v:53:y:2017:i:3:p:261-278
    DOI: 10.1080/00074918.2017.1410311
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