Continuity and Change after Indonesia's Reforms: Contributions to an Ongoing Assessment

This book addresses one of the most crucial questions in Southeast Asia: did the election in Indonesia in 2014 of a seemingly populist-oriented president alter the hegemony of the political and economic elites? Was it the end of the paradox that the basic social contradictions in the country's substantial capitalist development were not reflected in organized politics by any independent representation of subordinated groups, in spite of democratization? Beyond simplified frameworks, grounded scholars have now come together to discuss whether and how a new Indonesian politics has evolved in a number of crucial fields. Their critical insights are a valuable contribution to the study of this question.

"This book addresses one of the most crucial questions in Southeast Asia: did the election in Indonesia in 2014 of a seemingly populist-oriented president alter the hegemony of the political and economic elites? Was it the end of the paradox that the basic social contradictions in the country's substantial capitalist development were not reflected in organized politics by any independent representation of subordinated groups, in spite of democratization? Beyond simplified frameworks, grounded scholars have now come together to discuss whether and how a new Indonesian politics has evolved in a number of crucial fields. Their critical insights are a valuable contribution to the study of this question." -- Professor Olle Törnquist, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.

This book addresses one of the most crucial questions in Southeast Asia: did the election in Indonesia in 2014 of a seemingly populist-oriented president alter the hegemony of the political and economic elites? Was it the end of the paradox that the basic social contradictions in the country's substantial capitalist development were not reflected in organized politics by any independent representation of subordinated groups, in spite of democratization? Beyond simplified frameworks, grounded scholars have now come together to discuss whether and how a new Indonesian politics has evolved in a number of crucial fields. Their critical insights are a valuable contribution to the study of this question.

Continuity and change after Indonesia's reforms : contributions to an ongoing assessment -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- 1. Indonesia's New Politics: Transaction Without Contestation -- 2. Indonesian Parties Twenty Years On: Personalism and Professionalization amidst Dealignment -- 3. Ideologies of Joko Widodo and Indonesian Political Parties -- 4. Political Islam Movements and Democracy in Indonesia: A Changing Landscape? -- 5. Creating Leadership Legitimacy in Post-Reform Indonesia -- 6. The Political Middle Class in Post-Soeharto Era Indonesia -- 7. The Politics of Centre–Local Relations in Contemporary Indonesia -- 8. The Roots and Actors of Corruption in the Political Realm -- 9. Why Is It Really Hard To Move On? Explaining Indonesia's Limited Foreign Policy Reform After Soeharto -- 10. Papua under the Joko Widodo Presidency -- 11. Youth "Alienation" and New Radical Politics: Shifting Trajectories in Youth Activism -- Index.