Indonesian politics in 2013: the emergence of new leadership?

Dave McRae

Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 2013, vol. 49, issue 3, 289-304

Abstract: The rise of Joko Widodo (Jokowi) from small-town mayor to presidential frontrunner asks again whether new, alternative leaders could enter Indonesian politics in the 2014 elections. This article surveys Jokowi's impact on Indonesian politics over the past 12 months, and examines whether his election as Jakarta governor, and his evident popularity, has opened the way for alternative candidates at local level, or if it has changed parties' calculations for the presidential election. The article concludes by considering whether a new leader could tackle some of the entrenched defects of democracy in Indonesia, given that he or she may have only minority support in the parliament. The article focuses in particular on corrupt law enforcement, the military and the rule of law, and violent religious intolerance.

Date: 2013
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00074918.2013.850629 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:bindes:v:49:y:2013:i:3:p:289-304

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/CBIE20

DOI: 10.1080/00074918.2013.850629

Access Statistics for this article

Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies is currently edited by Firman Witoelar Kartaadipoetra, Arianto Patunru, Robert Sparrow, Sarah Xue Dong and Sean Muir

More articles in Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().