Testing the water: flood victims take Anies to court
2019 Indonesian Elections, Analysis, Law, Politics, Society, Urban planningA group of residents have filed a class action against Governor Anies Baswedan over widespread flooding in early January. Will they have any luck? Laras Susanti examines the case.
Best of 2019: articles
2019 Indonesian Elections, Analysis, Corruption, Gender, Human Rights, Law, Political parties, Politics, Religion, Society, Urban planningIndonesia at Melbourne will again be taking a break over the Christmas and New Year period. Here we list the most popular articles, plus a few of our favourites, from 2019. We look forward to seeing you again when we return in mid-January.
When is a tadpole like a bat? The riddle of Indonesia’s vanishing political divide
20 Years After Soeharto, 2019 Indonesian Elections, Analysis, Corruption, Elections, Environment, Politics, SocietyAs former arch-rivals Jokowi and Prabowo team up, Airlangga Pribadi Kusman asks how different their positions were to begin with.
Indonesia’s polling industry after the 2019 elections
2014 Indonesian Elections, 2019 Indonesian Elections, PoliticsWith Joko Widodo's inauguration ceremony for his second term just days away, Dr Dirk Tomsa looks at the health of the polling industry following the highly polarised 2019 elections.
Should (and could) Indonesia go back to separate legislative and presidential elections?
2019 Indonesian Elections, Analysis, Elections, Law, PoliticsProfessor Simon Butt examines key legal issues associated with Indonesia's first simultaneous presidential and legislative elections.
Prabowo’s challenge: in search of a legal and evidentiary miracle
2019 Indonesian Elections, Analysis, Law, PoliticsThe Constitutional Court will begin hearing Prabowo Subianto's challenge to his election loss on 14 June. Professor Simon Butt takes a close look at his application.
The urban poor in the Jakarta riots
2019 Indonesian Elections, Analysis, Politics, Society Ahmad Syarif Syechbubakr writes that most analyses of the recent Jakarta riots have ignored the social situation on the ground, which provided a fertile environment for the riots to escalate.
Jakarta bruised but Prabowo’s wrecking likely to fail
2019 Indonesian Elections, Analysis, Elections, Political parties, PoliticsIndonesian democracy has taken a beating over the past few days. Dr Dave McRae looks at what could be done to prevent a repeat of this week's events in future elections.
Death by overwork: the complicated case of the Indonesian election
2019 Indonesian Elections, Analysis, ElectionsIndonesian media organisations have reported sensationally on the more than 400 election workers who have died following the 2019 elections. But are these deaths really so questionable? Dr Jesse H. Grayman takes a closer look at the issue.