Jurnal Hubungan Internasional
Vol 3, No 1 (2014): April

From New Order to Reformasi: Indonesian Subnational Politics in the Post-New Order Era1

Agustino, Leo ( School of History, Politics and Strategic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia)
Yusoff, Mohammad Agus ( School of History, Politics and Strategic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Aug 2015

Abstract

Direct local election in Indonesia has been run since the middle of 2005. It is bringing some changes, especially in political reformation. Changed election mechanism to direct election done by the society in the region. This article seen that the changes has brought some positive impacts to the society as growing increasingly broad political participation, the legitimacy of local heads becomes higher and political party roles also become important. This changed which the author said as a form of deeper democratic process to “new democracy” in Indonesia. In addition, some weaknesses also appeared, such as the booming of money politic, weaken of regional institution and the emergence of new local elites. It leads to government as a minority in the scope of the power legislative institution which act as majority.

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Journal Info

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jhi

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Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Library & Information Science

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Jurnal Hubungan Internasional (JHI) is a biannual journal published by Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia collaborates with Asosiasi Ilmu Hubungan Internasional ...