This article reviews the part played by lower class groups in Indonesia's democratic
transition and consolidation. While mainstream analyses emphasize dominance of …

Scholars of Indonesia are still searching for ways to characterize the ordering principles of
the new post-Suharto politics. In the 1950s and 1960s, Clifford Geertz's notion of aliran …

As Egypt and Tunisia begin difficult democratic transitions, comparative political scientists
have pointed to the world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia, as a role model. Seen as a …

This article examines civil society strengthening experience in Indonesia to illuminate
issues, challenges, and lessons for non-governmental organization (NGO) capacity building …

Assessing Dynamics of Democratisation: Transformative Politics, New Institutions, and the
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Citizenship develops in relation to the specific way in which the colonial state and local
societies reshaped each other. This article traces the history of that relationship in Indonesia …

What explains the varied quality of local governance? The worldwide trend to decentralize
the responsibilities and budgets of governments has made this question particularly urgent …

The article reviews three recent, commendable and important books about the Indonesian
counter-revolution and killings of the mid-1960s. Two case studies by Jess Melvin and …

The devolution of power to subnational governments and the involvement of civil society in
policy decisions and implementation are the twin pillars of neoliberal governance reforms in …

For nearly a decade, Indonesia has been engaged in one of the world's largest programs of
public sector decentralization. The evidence suggests that Indonesian decentralization has …