The result is, we believe, an important and comprehensive evaluation of Indonesia's democratic decline at the outset of President Joko Widodo's second term.Indonesia has long been hailed as a rare case of democratic transition and persistence in an era of global democratic setbacks.
Democracy in Indonesia: From Stagnation to Regression?, Hardcover - Thomas Power The majority of contributions to this volume, with the exception of those by Marcus Mietzner, Ross Tapsell and Thomas Power, were developed out of papers presented at the 37th annual Indonesia Update conference, held at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, on 6-7 September 2019. The 2019 Update took stock of this trend by posing a question: had Indonesian democracy shifted from a state of stagnation, as proposed at the same venue five years previously, to one of regression ? The excellent array of papers presented by the contributors to this book revealed an overwhelming, and profoundly troubling, answer.