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ItemLaw, democracy and the fulfilment of socioeconomic rights: insights from Indonesia(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2016-02-01)In recent years a debate has emerged about the conditions under which justiciable legal frameworks facilitate the fulfilment of socioeconomic rights. This debate has pitted institutionalist perspectives that emphasise the progressive potential of democratisation against structuralist perspectives that emphasise the constraints imposed by relationships of power and interest. This paper considers the debate in light of Indonesia’s recent experience. It suggests that we need to examine how institutional and structural factors interact within particular contexts to shape socioeconomic rights fulfilment, not examine these factors in isolation. It also considers the strategic implications of this argument for rights proponents.
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ItemNeo-liberalism and the politics of higher education policy in Indonesia(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2016-01-01)This paper examines Indonesia's experience with neo-liberal higher education reform. It argues that this agenda has encountered strong resistance from the dominant predatory political, military, and bureaucratic elements who occupy the state apparatus, their corporate clients, and popular forces, leading to continuation of the centralist and predatory system of higher education that was established under the New Order. The only areas in which neo-liberal reform has progressed have been those where the neo-liberal agenda has aligned well with that of popular forces and there has been little resistance from predatory elements. In presenting this argument, the paper illustrates the role of domestic configurations of power and interest in mediating global pressures for neo-liberal higher education reform. It accordingly suggests that Indonesia needs to construct a model of higher education that simultaneously fits with the reigning political settlement and produces better research and teaching outcomes than the present model.
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ItemAsia's rise and the politics of Australian aid policy(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2016-01-01)
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ItemContesting Tobacco-Control Policy in Indonesia(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2015-01-02)
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ItemLaw and the Realisation of Human Rights: Insights from Indonesia's Education Sector(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2015-04-03)
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ItemRealising Rights in Low Quality Democracies: Instructive Asian Cases(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2015-04-03)