This article analyzes the anticolonial worldmaking of postcolonial Indonesia’s first president Sukarno, during Guided Democracy (1959–1965).
Politics
Direktur Indonesia untuk AIC, Kevin Evans, mengkaji pro dan kontra sistem presidensial dan parlementer. Hal ini menyusul komentar Presiden Prabowo Subianto tahun lalu bahwa pemerintahan negara seharusnya kembali ke sistem parlementer. Dalam analisis 5.000 kata ini, Evans menjawab cara terbaik untuk menyusun peran kepala negara dan kepala pemerintahan, dan apakah harus ada posisi presiden dan perdana menteri yang terpisah.
The AIC’s Indonesia director Kevin Evans examines the pros and cons of presidential and parliamentary systems. This follows comments last year by President Prabowo Subianto that governance of the country should return to some form of parliamentary system.
In this 5000-word analysis, Evans answers how best to structure the roles of head of state and head of government, and whether there should be separate positions of president and prime minister.
Indonesians voted for their local leaders on Wednesday in their first simultaneous regional elections (pilkada) in 545 provinces, regencies and municipalities across the country.
As Indonesia carries out its first-ever simultaneous regional elections, important local issues hang in the balance. However, after a mammoth presidential election, officials worry voters are becoming ambivalent.
The UN Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary emphasise the important role of the judiciary in balancing the executive and legislative powers, and its essential role in protecting human rights.
How far has Jokowi truly transformed Indonesia? The conference will bring together experts from Australia, Indonesia, and around the world to examine the mark that Jokowi has left on the country’s economy, welfare, politics, security, environment, and international relations.
The Indonesian islands of Bangka and Belitung have come under the spotlight for illegal tin mining, linked to what is potentially one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country’s history.
Briefly this week, it appeared Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto’s ungainly signature policy of free food had come to this – a rather unpleasant sounding but, we are assured, tasty substitute for the real deal.
Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry is looking into allegations that some Indonesians, thought to be migrant workers, have formed a gang and caused public disturbances in Osaka, Japan.
Indonesia, Malaysia and the Maldives have government-mandated institutions that manage and invest pilgrims’ funds in a religiously permissible way to help them finance their pilgrimages.
Pope Francis, the leader of the global Catholic Church, arrived at Merdeka Palace on Wednesday morning to meet with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
On 27 August 2024, former Constitutional Court Chief Justice Anwar Usman lodged an appeal against a Jakarta Administrative Court (PTUN) ruling (604/G/2023/PTUN.JKT) that cancelled ethical sanctions imposed on him by the Constitutional Court. He did so because it also denied his request to be reinstated as head of that court .
Earlier this month, senior officials of the Gerindra party, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad and Habiburokhman, met with several pro-democracy activists from the 1997/1998 period and their family members.
Thousands clashed with police and attempted to storm parliament, in reaction to a plan to change the country’s electoral rules. Former President Joko Widodo has been accused of trying to establish a political dynasty.
Indonesia is set to grant visa-free visits to 20 countries by October, according to the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy. The proposal is now in its final stages.
