Posts with tag: Decentralisation
Democratic, corrupt, and the glue of the nation: meet the provincial middle classes
Analysis, SocietyDuring the New Order period, the middle class was routinely depicted as small (less than 10 per cent of the population) and uninterested in democracy. According to Dr Gerry van Klinken, that picture now needs a serious overhaul. They are interested in democracy, he writes, and even more in decentralisation, and play a crucial role in holding the country together.