Since taking office in 2014, President Joko Widodo has made systematic efforts to weaken the country's democratic institutions and practices. Irrespective of what actually occurred, the incident ...

Political theorist Cas Mudde describes populism as a response to “pathological normalcy,” where democratic systems fail to address inequality and social alienation. Indonesia’s 2019 ...

JAKARTA - Nearly three decades after the fall of Indonesia's authoritarian leader ... among Indonesian observers about the undoing of democratic reforms that sprang up after Suharto was ousted.

Nearly three decades after the fall of Indonesia's authoritarian leader, General Suharto, the nation's new president is causing unease among liberals and others by increasingly turning to the once-all ...

Pro-democracy activists in Indonesia have welcomed a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court to scrap a regulation that effectively restricted presidential nominations to major parties ...