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In Indonesia, Politics is All in the Family

By: Ainur Rohmah Last weekend, Puan Maharani, the 45-year-old daughter of Megawati Sukarnoputri, the powerful head of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) surged past a host of longtime
Indonesia’s pro-democracy protests cut across deep political cleavages

PROTESTORS IN BANDUNG (PHOTO: LAB NUSANTARA ON FLICKR) "By EVE WARBURTON" Over the last week,tens of thousands of students and activists have poured on to the streets of Indonesia’s major cities. Pro
It’s time to stop waiting for a ‘good person’ to save Indonesian democracy

The idea that ‘good people vote for good people’ has led to a dangerous essentialism in Indonesian politics and has altered electoral contests so that they have become moral confrontations that extend