Patronage and Clientelism in Indonesian Electoral Politics

Aspinall, Edward; Sukmajati, Mada

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“…Indeed, decentralization can generate opportunities for "the domination of the stronger groups over local power and resources" (Byrne andLaier 1996: cited in Siahaan 2002;Rincker 2009). Reforms that decentralize electoral systems can also raise the financial costs of political aspirants, often disfavoring women who tend to have fewer resources (Norris and Lovenduski 1995;; for the impact of electoral decentralization on the use of money and other transactional exchanges, see, for example, Arghiros 2001;Aspinall and Sukmajati [2016]).…”

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“…While trying to promote images of supporting women's political advancement, Indonesia's major parties have figured out ways of extending their masculine politics by choosing women candidates just for the sake of the 30 percent quotas and not nurturing them to be more relevant to the operation of parties (Prihatini 2018, 54-55). Indonesian women also face big financial burdens as elections have become increasingly expensive, as broad networks of brokers and distributions of cash and club goods have become the key to electoral success (Tapol 2009;Reuter 2015;Aspinall and Sukmajati 2016). One of the consequences is reflected in apparently low reelection rates among local women legislators.…”

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Women’s political pathways in Southeast Asia

Choi

2018

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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While Southeast Asian women's socioeconomic status and formal political rights have improved significantly in recent decades, women remain underrepresented in the region's political institutions, especially at local levels of governance. Although interest in Southeast Asian women's political representation has increased in recent years, our understanding of women's experiences in their pursuit of elected office remains limited. Through a critical reading of the literature on women and politics and an examination of experiences in Southeast Asia, this article highlights gaps between normative theories and elite-biased empirical studies of women's political advancement and the conditions, processes and outcomes observed across several Southeast Asian countries. Drawing on original ethnographic research in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, this article identifies three major pathways by which women in Southeast Asia have sought election and re-election to political office. In so doing, the article highlights the significance of understanding women's varied experiences and suggests an agenda for further research.

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Section: Women's Political Advancement Through Political Reformsmentioning

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Section: Middle Pathwaysmentioning

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Women’s political pathways in Southeast Asia

Choi

2018

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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“…Parties were also often unable or unwilling to support individual candidates in their campaigns, turning much of the campaign into competition between individuals with no effective links to the parties that nominated them. A significant side effect of this development was that vote buying and other illicit campaign tactics by individual candidates increased exponentially (Aspinall and Sukmajati, 2016).…”

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Changing Patterns of Factionalism in Indonesia: From Principle to Patronage

Fionna

Tomsa

2020

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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Party politics in Indonesia’s current democratic regime takes place within the parameters of a heavily fragmented multi-party system. Factionalism exists in most parties, but the influence of factions on internal party dynamics is only weak to moderate. Where factions exist, they are usually driven by clientelism and patronage rather than the representation of social cleavages, ideological differences, or regional affiliations, although traces of programmatically infused factionalism do persist in some parties. The intensity of factional conflicts in Indonesia’s young democracy has varied significantly over time and across different parties. While temporal variations are mostly related to changing institutional incentive structures, disparities between individual parties can be attributed to different organisational histories and structures as well as divergent levels of rootedness in social cleavage structures. It is noteworthy that several Indonesian parties have relatively deep roots in society and, in some cases, close links to long-established civil society organisations that preceded party formation. Given these constraints on more severe factionalism, damaging effects on governance have been fairly limited. The most debilitating effects of factionalism have been felt within the parties themselves, whereas government effectiveness and coalition formation has, ironically, sometimes benefitted from factional disputes.

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“…Therefore, the turn of Islamist militants to terrorism reflects both new constellation of power and an attempt to bring back the viability of Islam at the moment of declining (Sidel, 2007: 27). The defeat of political Islam in the struggle for power coincided with the re-emergence of oligarchic politics (V. Hadiz & Robison, 2004;Winters, 2011), which is characterized by money politics, clientelism, and patronage (Aspinall & Sukmajati, 2016) and at the same time the advent of Global War on…”

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The Making of Islamist-inspired Terrorism and It’s Counter-terrorism in Indonesia

Arrobi

2018

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The study attempts to uncover the making of Islamist-inspired terrorism and its state-led counter-terrorism responses in the modern history of Indonesia. It argues that Islamist-inspired terrorism and its counter-terrorism have been inextricably linked in complex ways within political and historical contexts. Instead of regarding Islamist-inspired terrorism and counter-terrorism as separated and unrelated entities, or perceiving the latter as just response to the former, it suggests that they have been intertwined and shaped each other throughout Indonesia’s modern history. By discussing Islamist-inspired terrorism in the three Indonesian historical periods, namely the resurgence of Darul Islam during 1940-60s, the re-emergence of Darul Islam networks and its series of terrorist attacks in 1980s, and the Jemaah Islamiyah-related terrorist activities in the 2000s as illustrative cases, the study has delineated the ways in which Islamist-inspired terrorism and its state-led counter-terrorism have been bound up within particular political, historical, and sociological context. In addition to that, the study also reveals that both Islamist-inspired terrorism and its state-led counter-terrorism have been shaped by the dynamic interplay of local, national, and global contexts.

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Patronage and Clientelism in Indonesian Electoral Politics

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Women’s political pathways in Southeast Asia

Women’s political pathways in Southeast Asia

Changing Patterns of Factionalism in Indonesia: From Principle to Patronage

The Making of Islamist-inspired Terrorism and It’s Counter-terrorism in Indonesia

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