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Indonesia’s Post-Soeharto Democracy Movement edited by Stanley Adi Prasetyo, A.E. Priyono & Olle Törnquist

This unique joint effort by concerned scholars and reflective activists to review and analyse the character, problems and options facing the Indonesian pro-democracy movement is the first study to analyse why the movement failed to capitalize on its earlier successes and today is marginalized.

Despite being a major player in the ending of Soeharto’s New Order regime in 1998, today the Indonesian pro-democracy movement is a marginal force in Indonesian politics and the process of reformasi is in the hands of other (elite) forces. Accordingly, there are some who now question if the quest to establish what would have been the world’s third largest democracy is now a lost cause.

This book represents a unique joint effort by concerned scholars and reflective activists to review and analyse the character, problems and options facing the Indonesian pro-democracy movement.

Contents
Introduction; The Social and Political Crisis; General Problem of Democratisation; The Politics of Workers and the Urban Poor; Peasant Politics and Its Advocacy; Local Community Movement; Watchdog Movement; Gender and Democracy; The Human Rights Movement; The Actors’ Agenda; Political Parties and Democratisation; Appendix; Bibliography; Index

Published by NIAS Press
Published 2004, 739 pp.
ISBN 978 979 98029 0 3, paperback, £30.00