Contextually-Grounded Democracy: Broadening Pathways for Democratisation

Santoso, Purwo; Tapiheru, Joash

doi:10.22146/pcd.29006

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“…Nonetheless, while recognising such modesty, we can also argue that Indonesian scholars and activists have recently been more cautious in understanding the current state of democracy in the country. As Santoso and Tapiheru (2017) warn, there are serious risks in using particularism as a 'blank check' for practising democracy; this has been demonstrated, for example, in our discussion of KPBB and KPoK, whose activism suffered from deficits in vertical and horizontal accountability. Indonesia's democratic future, at least from the point of view of the civil society elaborated in this paper, is neither bleak nor rosy.…”

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“…Aside from expanding the horizon of civil society in Indonesia, this discussion is important given the bleak assessment of democracy in Indonesia (Mietzner, 2020). In a way, scrutinising civil society activities outside the major non-government organisations and the other 'usual suspects' is necessary to advance the idea of a more contextually grounded democracy (Santoso & Tapiheru, 2017). Furthermore, without totally rejecting critical assessments of democracy's current state in Indonesia, this article proposes maintaining 'cautious optimism' (Weiss, 2020) regarding environmental activists' creativity in pushing for democratisation.…”

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“…Bourchier, 2014;Diprose, McRae, & Hadiz, 2019;Hadiz, 2018), while Indonesian scholars-despite understanding the risk of particularism-continue to plea for a contextual and more substantial measurement of democracy (e.g. Santoso & Tapiheru, 2017).…”

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The politics of civil society forms

Djindan

2021

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Regardless of the debate on how and to what extent civil society contributes to enhance democratic practices, it is generally agreed that there is a reasonable link between civil society and democracy under certain conditions. The aim of this paper is to explore the politics of civil society forms and their contribution to maintain democratic practices in Jakarta. Building from the neo-Tocquevillean understanding of civil society, this article particularly analyses urban environmental activists’ strategy to adopt voluntary association and environmental spin off campaign as the forms of civic engagement to improve public policy in the province. Despite the lack of acknowledgement, this paper argues for the necessary inclusion and elaboration of spin off campaign and voluntary association in the Indonesian civil society literature because of their ability to facilitate diagonal accountability mechanism. Further analysis found that, however, the forms adopted by urban environmental activists suffer similar horizontal and vertical accountability problems frequently found in the more established civil society form (e.g. non-government organization). Nonetheless, the discussion in the paper provides an illustration about civil society’s ingenuity in pushing for democratic practices amidst the “democratic recession” in Indonesia.

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