How do we explain victories of neo-strongmen at recent democratic elections? There is no single answer to this question, but one aspect that requires our attention is the changing nature of election ...

For the strategists it was his proximity to the formation of the republican government and its first national institutions ...

Campaign messages flooded Indonesian public spaces, on social media and on the streets / Remco van Loenen. Indonesia’s election year – with legislative and presidential elections held on 14 February ...

On 27 November 2024, 37 provinces and 508 regencies/cities in Indonesia simultaneously held regional head elections. During the election campaigns, many of the candidates used populist slogans to ...

The outcome of Indonesia’s presidential election on 14 February 2024 was no surprise. Even before the start of the campaign period, pollsters predicted a lead of around 40 per cent of the votes for ...

‘I am campaigning because I feel like it,’ said Joko Widodo (‘Jokowi’) on 16 November 2024 as he toured the city of Purwokerto in support of Ahmad Luthfi’s bid for the Central Java governorship. He ...

Indonesia’s diversity is well known for its languages, peoples, as well as world and local religions. This diversity, however, doesn’t always sit well with everyone. Since the country’s independence ...

Entering this and that into the search form will return results containing both "this" and "that". Entering this not that into the search form will return results containing "this" and not "that".

Dressed in celebratory batik, the family gathered in the nondescript hotel ballroom resembles any other coming together for an anniversary or reunion. But this was no ordinary family. And the ...

Human rationality in politics is complex, yet at the same time, it can be a relatively simple process. Shortly before the presidential elections last February, during my regular commute, my Grab ...