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ItemNo Preview AvailableWhere are the Women? Gender Perspectives in Indonesia’s 2024 Presidential RaceFahadi, PR ; Savirani, A ; Setiawan, K (The University of Melbourne, 2024-01-30)The absence of women from any of the presidential tickets in this year’s Indonesian elections underscores a deeper political and policy malaise in addressing gender inequality.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableArbitrary Detention in Indonesia: Buru Prison Island, 1969-1979Setiawan, KMP (BRILL, 2022-01-01)Between 1969 and 1979 Indonesia'.s New Order regime consigned some 12,000 leftist political prisoners to a penal settlement on the island of Buru in eastern Indonesia. The prisoners were sent there without trial as part of a mass detention campaign undertaken by the state security organisation, Kopkamtib. Once on the island, they were expected to create a new, viable settlement by clearing jungle and planting crops. The authorities had no intention of releasing the prisoners, but rather expected then to settle on the island for good. In order to enhance the '.normalcy'. of the settlement, the authorities persuaded and coerced the families of some prisoners to move to Buru. Although conditions were better in Savanajaya, the settlement allocated to families, than in other parts of the penal colony, the family members of detainees were subject to many of the same rules of detention. Prisoners and their families suffered both from difficult conditions on Buru and from harsh ill-treatment by camp guards. Under international pressure, the New Order regime dismantled the settlement in 1979, and most of the detainees returned to Java.
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ItemVulnerable but Resilient: Indonesia in an Age of Democratic DeclineSetiawan, KMP (Routledge, 2022-11-25)Recent years have seen a consensus emerging that Indonesian democracy is in regression. Nonetheless, there continue to be developments that point towards Indonesia’s democratic resilience. This article examines key events of the past year that support resilience, including the passing of the landmark Law on Sexual Violence, the rejection of rumoured plans to extend President Joko Widodo’s term in office and a moderation of polarisation. At the same time, Indonesian democracy remains vulnerable, illustrated by legal developments that undermine executive accountability, ongoing militarisation in Papua, as well as persistent pressure in areas of freedom of expression and minority rights. The article will conclude with an examination of Jokowi’s efforts to secure his presidential legacy, particularly through infrastructure development and foreign policy. The article identifies two sources for democratic resilience—public opinion and elite support—and argues that while democratic decline continues, the process of regression is more uneven than commonly emphasised in assessments of Indonesian politics.
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ItemGender equity reversals and women’s responses to COVID-19 in rural IndonesiaDiprose, R ; Setiawan, KMP ; Beech Jones, B (Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, 2023)In Indonesia and globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed some of the gains made from the collective struggle to close the gender gap. For instance in 2021, reversals in gender parity were apparent, especially in women’s economic opportunities and political empowerment, increasing the time needed to close the global gender gap by a generation from 99.5 to 135.6 years.
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ItemDefending a Vulnerable yet Resilient Democracy: Civil Society Activism in Jokowi's IndonesiaSetiawan, KMP ; Tomsa, D (SAGE Publishing, 2023-12-01)For the first two decades after the end of the authoritarian New Order regime, Indonesian civil society was widely hailed as a bulwark against elite attempts to roll back the country's democratic achievements. More recent assessments, however, have highlighted how polarisation, socio-religious conservatism and growing state repression have increasingly restricted civil society's ability to defend Indonesian democracy against further backsliding. In the face of these growing pressures, political activists have nonetheless demonstrated adaptability, resourcefulness and resilience, and, despite the narrowing space for dissent and protest, occasionally succeeded in halting and even reversing anti-democratic trends. In this article, we focus on two segments of civil society – women's rights groups and environmental activists – to illustrate under what circumstances progressive political activism in contemporary Indonesia can still be effective in upholding diagonal accountability and defending human rights.
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ItemNo Preview Available1965setiaphari (living1965)Setiawan, K ; Wulia, T ( 2015)
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ItemNo Preview Available‘Old guard’ continues to constrain human rights reform in IndonesiaSetiawan, K ( 2016)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe fear of communism still haunts IndonesiaSetiawan, K ( 2016)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableRights in the firing lineSetiawan, K ( 2016)
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