Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Institutional Change, Policy Challenges and Democratic Decline. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Institutional Change, Policy Challenges and Democratic Decline

In Politics in Contemporary Indonesia, Ken M.P. Setiawan and Dirk Tomsa analyse the most prominent political ideas, institutions, interests and issues that shape Indonesian politics today. Guided by the overarching question whether Indonesia still deserves its famous label as a 'model Muslim democracy', the book argues that the most serious threats to Indonesian democracy emanate from the fading appeal of democracy as a compelling narrative, the increasingly brazen capture of democratic institutions by predatory interests, and the narrowing public space for those who seek to defend the values of democracy. In so doing, the book answers the following key questions: What are the dominant political narratives that underpin Indonesian politics? How has Indonesia's institutional framework evolved since the onset of democratisation in 1998? How do competing political interests weaken or strengthen Indonesian democracy? How does declining democracy affect Indonesia's prospects for dealing with its main policy challenges? How does Indonesia compare to other Muslim-majority states and to its regional neighbours? Up-to-date, comprehensive and written in an accessible style, this book will be of interest for both students and scholars of Indonesian politics, Asian Studies, Comparative Politics and International Relations.

Ken M.P. Setiawan is Lecturer in Indonesian and Asian Studies at the Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia. She is also Associate at the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) at the Melbourne Law School. Her research interests include globalisation and human rights, particularly focusing on the promotion of human rights at national and local levels. She has widely published on the politics of human rights in contemporary Indonesia, including Promoting Human Rights: National Human Rights Institutions in Indonesia and Malaysia (2013). Dirk Tomsa is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia. His main research interests focus on Indonesian and comparative Southeast Asian politics, especially in the areas of democratisation and democratic decline, electoral and party politics, institutional change and environmental politics. His publications include Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia: Golkar in the Post-Suharto Era (Routledge, 2008) as well as two co-edited volumes and numerous journal articles and book chapters on Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics.