Necessity as a Force for Change: Refuting Reform Optimists and Reform Skeptics of Contemporary Indonesia
This article seeks to situate the current political polity of post-reformasi Indonesia by arguing against reform optimists and reform skeptics. It argues that necessity had given rise to wide-spread reforms within Indonesia. However, as a “politics-as-usual” atmosphere re-dominated the political lan...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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UNISCI
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Revista UNISCI |
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| Online Access: | http://www.unisci.es/necessity-as-a-force-for-change-refuting-reform-optimists-and-reform-skeptics-of-contemporary-indonesia/ |
| Summary: | This article seeks to situate the current political polity of post-reformasi Indonesia by arguing against reform optimists and reform skeptics. It argues that necessity had given rise to wide-spread reforms within Indonesia. However, as a “politics-as-usual” atmosphere re-dominated the political landscape, the pace of reform was not as qualitatively comprehensive, its scope and variety decreased. Nonetheless, earlier necessity-driven reforms had set in place the bulwark of immutable change within Indonesia’s political landscape that makes re-centralization, or rather a reversion to New Order authoritarianism quite impractical.
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| ISSN: | 2386-9453 |