Labour and democracy? Reflections on the Indonesian impasse

Törnquist, Olle

doi:10.1080/00472330480000171

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“…As a result, owners and managers face the pressure of providing cheap labour to attract investors, thereby weakening protection for employees (Tornquist, 2007). Because this economic pressure is taken for granted, it is used to excuse poor organisational practices.…”

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Family, feudalism and selfishness: Looking at Indonesian leadership through a wisdom lens

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Using Social Practice Wisdom (SPW) as a conceptual lens, we shed new light on destructive, selfish leadership and its negative effects. Our study highlights the negative effects on followers of leaders' selfishness, as well as lack of empathy and inauthenticity. Our work also sheds light on new cross-cultural leadership challenges in emerging economies like Indonesia. Analysis reveals deep tensions between Indonesian leaders' tendency to position themselves in self-serving discourses of feudalism and family, and what young, western educated Indonesian professionals now expect of leaders. Selfish leadership discourse and lack of leader wisdom jeopardize Indonesia's economic development. We argue that wise dialogical communication enhances wise leadership.

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Family, feudalism and selfishness: Looking at Indonesian leadership through a wisdom lens

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“…Hence, the argument that Indonesia 'displays very few of the traits that political scientists have identified as propitious for the development of democratic political systems' has become widely acknowledged in the literature (Webber, 2005: 6;Uhlin, 2000;Tornquist, 2004). Many analysts agree that contrary to most modernisation theorists' calculations, according to which 'the steady economic growth under the Suharto regime should have' led to democratic development, the Indonesian democratisation process was instigated by the economic crisis which 'triggered the fall of the dictator' (Uhlin, 2000: 2, 5;Tornquist, 2002Tornquist, , 2004.…”

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Democratisation in Indonesia: From Transition to Consolidation

Abdulbaki¹

2008

Asian Journal of Political Science

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Despite many pessimistic expectations, the democratisation process in Indonesia has been progressing steadily over the past decade. The Indonesian political elite has crafted and stabilised a political transition mainly characterised by frequent, free and fair elections, peaceful rotations of power, effective elected officials and separation of powers, inclusive suffrage, freedom of expression, independence of the media and associational autonomy. In other words, within one decade, Indonesia has developed the main attributes of a democratic country, according to most theories of procedural democracy. However, the extent to which Indonesian democracy has been consolidated and institutionalised is another issue, which requires close examination and assessment. Does the Indonesian democracy fulfil or approximate the criteria stipulated by theorists of democratic consolidation? This article investigates the extent to which Indonesia has managed to advance its democratic transition and evaluates the prospects and challenges of democratic consolidation. In general, the article asserts that despite the persistence of a number of shortcomings, the steady progress of the Indonesian democratisation process and the consistent commitment of the principal political actors to the democratic rules of the game will likely lead to more institutionalised, policy-driven party politics and a gradual democratic consolidation in the foreseeable future.

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“…After Suharto's fall, the labour movement was able to organise freely, but it became deeply divided over the question of whether it should participate in formal politics. While some labour activists believed that labour unionism and party politics were two diametrically opposed spheres (To¨rnquist 2004), others in the movement strongly disagreed. Thus, members of the latter faction established several labourlinked parties after 1998, but none of them had any electoral success.…”

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Fighting the Hellhounds: Pro-democracy Activists and Party Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia

Mietzner

2013

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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Labour and democracy? Reflections on the Indonesian impasse

Cited by 29 publications

References 15 publications

Family, feudalism and selfishness: Looking at Indonesian leadership through a wisdom lens

Family, feudalism and selfishness: Looking at Indonesian leadership through a wisdom lens

Democratisation in Indonesia: From Transition to Consolidation

Fighting the Hellhounds: Pro-democracy Activists and Party Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia

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