Asia's recent financial crisis has been more than just an economic shock. In several key
instances it has unraveled entrenched economic and political regimes. Faced with …

Indonesia should feature prominently in any global account of democratisation. In a few
heady years after the 1998 collapse of Suharto's autocratic New Order, Indonesia was …

Based on the current literature on democratization, democracy in Indonesia is not yet
consolidated. The masses and élites need to learn to adjust their political practices and …

For over half a century 'Pancasila', or the Five Principles, 1 remained a contested concept in
Indonesia, in spite of its closest association with the statist and developmentalist ideas that …

Prospects for Indonesia's democracy, or the lack thereof, have drawn interest among
analysts for years, usually in a critical and pessimistic vein. Understandably, attention to the …

In the five years since the fall of President Suharto, Indonesia has had three presidents—BJ
Habibie, Abdurrahman Wahid, and Megawati Sukarnoputri—all of whom took power by …

The social inequalities of capitalist development, the state's declining position as the
economy deregulates and the awaited" retirement" of President Soeharto have …

When three decades of authoritarian rule unravelled in Indonesia following the fall of
President Suharto in 1998, it was widely expected that this would also open the doors for a …

This chapter reviews Indonesia's democratic progress, two decades after the collapse of the
Soeharto regime. It begins by briefly surveying the course of Indonesia's democratization …

Democratic countries in Southeast Asia are deeply affected by a set of interrelated
phenomena that is sometimes colloquially known as 'money politics'. Rather than relying on …