Indonesia: General elections test the amended Constitution and the new Constitutional Court

Harijanti, Susi Dwi; Lindsey, Tim

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“…Implementing an electoral college would require amending the Indonesian Constitution, which has not been done since the last of the four reformasi ‐era amendments passed in 2002. Indrayana (2010, p. 120) has characterized the amendment process as “messy,” and others have noted that the amendments were “flawed, incomplete, and full of loopholes” (Harijanti & Lindsey, 2005, p. 139). Although there would certainly be resistance to an electoral college amendment, such an amendment might find additional support from provinces lying outside of eastern Indonesia.…”

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A proposal to strengthen Indonesian democracy

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2023

Asian Politics and Policy

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For centuries, Java‐based rulers employed economic, political, and military measures to control the myriad islands lying in the eastern reaches of the Indonesian archipelago. Following Indonesia's transformation into a presidential democracy, the country's leaders modified this strategy and sought to maintain regional control by implementing economic and political decentralization measures on a massive scale. These measures also gave the eastern populations an appreciable influence on presidential elections. However, population projections and recent election data indicate that inhabitants of eastern Indonesia may become electorally marginalized because the region's population growth is being far outpaced by that of Java and Sumatra. Such marginalization could lead to social unrest, separatist movements, and other malevolent behaviors that threaten the country's democracy. To address this scenario, this article suggests that implementing a presidential voting framework based on the US Electoral College could strengthen Indonesia's democracy by significantly empowering voters in the country's eastern provinces.

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“…(Diamantina, 2018, pp. 2–3; Harijanti and Lindsey, 2005, p. 143; Naja, 2004, p. 39; Prihatini, 2018, p. 49; Sherlock, 2005, pp. 8–10)…”

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2023

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“…The law could determine that proposed income increases only apply to the Regional People's Representative Council so that there is no conflict of interest. The same arrangement could also be applied to the other councils (Faiz, 2016); (Harijanti & Lindsey, 2006).…”

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Institutional Arrangement of the Regional People’s Representative Council in State Administration System of Republic of Indonesia

Hakim¹

2020

Jurnal Notariil

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Due to repeated changes in the operational arrangements, there is a lack of clarity about the essence of these institutions, which in turn affects their position, duties, functions, and institutional roles. This study aims to find the essence of the Regional People’s Representative Council institutions in accordance with the constitutional system in the Republic of Indonesia. This study was designed in normative juridical research namely identifying, classifying, and analyzing legal materials based on the norms and principles of constitutional law. The results show that there is still no normative agreement about the Regional People’s Representative Council, either institutionally as a regional legislative institution or as an element of regional government. These two methods resulted in different legal consequences. For this reason, it is necessary to redefine the Regional People’s Representative Council. The research shows that institutional arrangements for the council needs to be carried out through stages: constitutional structuring; arrangement/synchronization of laws and regulations (position structure) of the council with regional government laws, electoral regulations, and arrangements in relation to the council with government institutions in the region. The conclusion is that within the framework of an ideal constitutional system, it is necessary to clarify the essence of the Regional People’s Representative Council to ensure legal certainty. Clarity for the institution would greatly influence its authority, duties, and institutional functions. For this reason, institutional arrangements for the council need to proceed in stages to achieve clarity about the relevant questions.

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“…81 This in turn has created a potentially effective legal pathway through which citizens and civil society activists have been able to challenge government policies they believe infringe human rights, namely, judicial review of laws. At the same time, other legal innovations such as citizen law suits, class actions, and legal standing (all of which were rare, if not unheard of, during the New Order period) have opened up new ways 78 Schwarz 1994, 272;Hariyanti and Lindsey 2006;Ziegenhain 2008, 45-77. The parliament did, however, become a little more independent and critical of government during the late decade of the New Order.…”

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Contesting Tobacco-Control Policy in Indonesia

Rosser

2015

Critical Asian Studies

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Over the past decade and a half, the Indonesian government has progressed fitfully and inconsistently toward a stricter tobacco-control policy regime, albeit without much impact on the country's worsening tobacco epidemic. This article explains this pattern of reform in terms of the unequal but changing relationship of power between tobacco companies and tobacco farmers, on the one hand, and tobacco-control advocates based in NGOs, health professional organizations, universities, and international organizations, on the other. The first of these coalitions has had greater structural leverage, better political connections, stronger organizational capacity, greater ability to mobilize popular forces, and more capacity to cultivate a positive public image. But the second coalition has been able to exercise some influence over policy because of changes wrought by democratization. In this analysis, the author engages with the literatures on (1) Indonesia's political economy in the post-New Order period and (2) the politics of tobacco control in developing countries. With regard to the former, the author argues that we need to give greater attention to the role of actors previously excluded from the policy-making process than is currently the case. With regard to the latter, the author contends that more focus is needed on domestic actors and political institutions in shaping tobacco-control policy. Looking to the future, the author suggests that further progress in Indonesia's tobacco-control policies will be contingent upon an ongoing process of struggle; however, there are signs that the tide is turning in favor of the second coalition.

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Indonesia: General elections test the amended Constitution and the new Constitutional Court

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A proposal to strengthen Indonesian democracy

A proposal to strengthen Indonesian democracy

Institutional Arrangement of the Regional People’s Representative Council in State Administration System of Republic of Indonesia

Contesting Tobacco-Control Policy in Indonesia

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