Local Elections and Party Politics in Post‑ Reformasi Indonesia: A View from Yogyakarta

Choi, Nankyung

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“…Local political and bureaucratic institutions are developed into means for building private wealth. Politicians regard receiving gifts from the executive as something natural (Choi 2004).…”

Section: The Indonesian Civil Servicementioning

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Buying an Income: The Market for Civil Service Positions in Indonesia

Kristiansen¹,

Ramli²

2006

Contemporary Southeast Asia

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in indonesia, positions in the Civil Service are subject to hidden market transactions. the demand for stable sources of income is high, and lack of transparency makes sales possible by government officers in core positions. the recent decentralization reforms have blurred borders of responsibility and lines of reporting in the bureaucracy and facilitated increasing rent-seeking at local levels. the article reports from a study of payment for government positions in an urban and a rural district in a province in indonesia, nusa tenggara Barat. the survey reveals that prices for positions are rising and vary among departments in accordance with available opportunities to boost their income. Prices are higher where many projects are available and the compensation is good. the article concludes that current practices are unethical and hurt the society and that increased transparency in employment procedures must be in place before things can get any better.

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“…Local political and bureaucratic institutions are developed into means for building private wealth. Politicians regard receiving gifts from the executive as something natural (Choi 2004).…”

Section: The Indonesian Civil Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

Buying an Income: The Market for Civil Service Positions in Indonesia

Kristiansen¹,

Ramli²

2006

Contemporary Southeast Asia

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“…Although the central leaderships of political parties can dictate most decisions on policy issues and are able to push through their candidates for the national parliament and for their respective central executives, a tug of war between Jakarta and the regions is usual at lower levels (Choi 2004 The pilkada have not only strengthened but also weakened local and regional party leaders in a way, for many of the candidates were chosen from civil servants or businessmen without any strong party links despite the fact that parties had the nomination right. Often, candidates were not party members initially or they belonged to party A but ran for party B.…”

Section: The Collusive Relationship Between Parties: Cartels and Shifmentioning

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“…Some Scholars question the validity of the aliran approach from a class perspective (Robison / Hadiz 2004;Hadiz 2004a and, others cite new evidence from regression analysis and raise serious doubts (Mujani / Liddle 2006). In connection with a range of recent studies on local politics (Hadiz 2004a;Choi 2004;Vel 2005;Mietzner 2007) the emergent picture is very complex. A more comprehensive approach to understand party politics in Indonesia today does still not exist.…”

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Political Parties in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Between Politik Aliran and 'Philippinisation'

Ufen

2006

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. i.e. some of the biggest political parties still have a mass base and are embedded in specific milieus. But politik aliran has lost a lot of its significance and re-emerged in a quite different form after the fall of Suharto in 1998. Starting with this observation, it is argued that parties are still socially rooted, so a modified aliran approach still has its analytical value. Terms of use: Documents inHowever, one can also witness a weakening of aliran (dealiranisasi) and a concomitant 'Philippinisation', which is indicated by the rise of presidential or presidentialised parties, growing intra-party authoritarianism, the prevalence of 'money politics', the lack of meaningful political platforms, weak loyalties towards parties, cartels with shifting coalitions and the upsurge of new local elites.

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“…power-sharing mechanisms between ideologically opposed social and political (Sebastian, 2004), the institutional weakness of political parties in the competitive multi-party system (Buehler and Tan, 2007;Choi, 2004Choi, , 2007, the widespread fragmentation emerging from the dominant patronage politics and neoliberal economy (Aspinall, 2013a), the focus on ethnic and religious identities amidst the weakening of formal political associations (Aspinall, Dettman, & Warburton, 2011;Ufen, 2008), and increased piety amidst the commodification of Islam in the public sector (Fealy and White, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Meanwhile, the third approach focuses on the presence and roles of democratic institutions such as political parties, the media, etc. This third approach tends to highlight the institutional shortcomings of political parties and their implications for the management and accountability of public policy (Tan, 2006;Buehler and Tan, 2007;Buehler, 2007;Choi, 2004Choi, , 2007.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%