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The lack of policy-based natural divisions between the parties means that almost any combination of parties to nominate presidential candidates is possible. The primary obstacle to some combinations is personal rivalry. There is also no candidate with popularity as high as what Joko Widodo had (...)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• Even though the next presidential and parliamentary elections are three years away, open discussion and manoeuvring have already begun, including calls for a date to be set immediately.
• This is partly motivated by the uncertainty arising from the requirement for (...)
Jakarta — The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Jakarta) has given a red report card to the administration of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Vice President Ma’ruf Amin marking their second year in office on October 20. The LBH Jakarta highlighted a number of issues in the report ranging from (...)
Jakarta — The police have again come under public scrutiny for committing repressive and violent acts after a police officer threw a student to the ground during a protest action in Tangerang, West Java on Wednesday October 13.
Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Chairperson Asfinawati said (...)
For years, Indonesia’s political landscape had little room for vigorous debate on policy issues, given the focus on individual personalities and even populism. This is beginning to change.
There are increasing signs that 20 years of policy-free rhetorical contestation between Indonesia’s (...)
Irfan Kamil, Jakarta — Parameter Politic Indonesia Executive Director Adi Prayitno says that summoning poultry farmer Suroto to the Palace to meet with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is a democratic paradox.
Suroto was arrested by police when Widodo was conducting a working visit to Blitar, East (...)
Over the last three weeks, the surge in COVID cases, hospitalisations and deaths in Indonesia has dominated all media and political discussions. Prior to this, however, it was the issue of corruption, and the weakening of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), that was the headline news (...)
Jakarta — The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has recorded that 938 demonstrators have been arrested on the grounds of violating health protocols since the corona virus (Covid-19) pandemic began early last year.
Kontras also found 300 cases of alleged violence (...)
Despite a legacy of citizen passivity from the New Order era, elite fear of the freedom social media promises remains strong.
On 6 April, the Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC) group published poll results showing an increase in Indonesians afraid to speak out criticising government (...)
Little noticed in the West, the past two years have witnessed the largest protest wave in decades against Indonesia’s increasingly authoritarian crony-capitalist government. But activists are still mentally stuck in the 1990s, deploying depoliticized concepts like “civil society” and “moral (...)
No parliamentary opposition means the government is not held to account for its vaccination programme.
Indonesia’s pandemic response and relief efforts continue to struggle with the tensions between economic and health priorities. Last year, this manifested itself in the uneven and changing (...)
The opposition’s weakness means that the Indonesian president’s recent problems carry few political costs – for the moment.
Last year, President Joko Widodo’s image as a populist “close-to-the-people” political leader suffered a series of blows. 2020 was marked by regular demonstrations protesting (...)
Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo recently signed off on chemically castrating and naming perpetrators of sexual violence against children.
It was announced this week Mr Widodo approved the law in December to “provide a deterrent effect on perpetrators, and prevent sexual violence against (...)
Indonesia’s 2024 presidential election is looming large on the horizon as Jokowi’s image wanes.
As Covid year 2020 ends, so too does the first year of the second and final term of the presidency of Joko Widodo. One year in, all the sheen of being the “hope” for Indonesia has vanished. No longer (...)
Jakarta — Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) researcher Danu Pratama has spelled out critical notes on violations of freedom of expression in the framework of commemorating International Human Rights Day on Thursday December 10.
The first note mentioned by Pratama (...)
Literature That Defends Victims, Not Power we have cried out from behind the walls of segregation from the clutches of the spiteful bed from the nightly business in the gutters from the revenge of unwilling wedlock “we are human beings!”
– ‘Women’, written by Sugiarti Siswadi, leader of Lekra (...)
In a recent article Edward Aspinall suggests that the current student mobilisation revives old patterns from the Indonesian student movement. But there are three new manifestations in the current movement that can hardly be understood in terms of the old patterns.
First, in mobilisation, the (...)
The scandalous passing of the “Job Creation” bill, or more accurately, the “pro-Big-Bosses-against-people-and-environment” bill on October 5, has been met with strong opposition from large sections of the Indonesian public.
Protests began when the government proposed the draft bill early this (...)
A major protest movement is underway in Indonesia against the neoliberal, authoritarian-populist regime of Joko Widodo and his collaborators in the House of Representatives. Frans Ari Prasetyo explains the so-called ‘Omnibus Law’ that sparked the protest, and reports on the clashes now unfolding (...)
Indonesia’s trade unions and social movements are taking to the streets against anti-worker legislation.
Because of the threat that the Omnibus Bill poses to Indonesian society, workers, students, peasants, and all elements of social movements have boldly opposed it.
On 5 October, in the (...)
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