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Ejaz Hussain
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This article has attempted to explain why the military has remained a powerful political institution/force in Pakistan. Its purpose was to test a hypothesis that posited that the colonial authority st...
Hasrul Hanif, Pratikno
Since the resignation of President Suharto in 1998, Indonesia has undergone a massive process of decentralisation and democratisation. Political power no longer concentrates at the national level, but...
Samsu R. Panggabean
Studies on conflict in Indonesia have reached an unprecedented stage in terms of the proliferation of publications, both in print and online. There are two interrelated reasons for this new and signif...
Muhadi Sugiono, Frans Djalong
This paper discusses actual discourses that have shaped the ways in which violent communal conflicts have been understood, and how different practices of interventions have been applied to address the...
Gyda M. Sindre
Drawing attention to the wider literature on the linkages between civic engagement and democracy, this paper starts off by asking the question whether civic engagement beyond formal politics actually ...
Purwo Santoso
Drawn by globalization, Indonesia's governance has been transformed into a more decentralised and democratically shaped one in the past decade. Given the scale of the challenges, its achievement deser...
Mochtar Mas’Oed, Amalinda Sevirani
This paper aims to map out practices of political financing in Indonesia from the political to the socio-historical perspective. Arguing about the party financing and the corruption of politicians and...
Wawan Mas’Udi, Hasrul Hanif
This article presents a picture of contemporary welfare politics in Indonesia. Adopted in the light of broken welfare-oriented programes initiated by national and local administrations, it was hoped t...
Purwo Santoso
This article aims to scrutinise the phenomenon of proliferation of local government units in Indonesia in order to understand how identity politics has evolved within and through the process of decent...
Kuskridho Ambardi
The third wave of democratisation might now be remembered as no more than a reminder of the tumultuous periods of the 1970s and 1980s, when authoritarian regimes in many parts of the world came to an ...
Pratikno, Cornelis Lay
The paper discusses democratisation practiced in Surakarta, Indonesia, which has been claimed by many experts as a municipality with “best practices” of democratic local governance in Indonesia. Their...
Syarif Hidayat
This paper attempts to review the features of power relationship between central and local governments in Indonesia since the early independence up to the post Suharto regime. Its central aims are to ...
Kristian Stokke
Since the end of the Cold War, Norway has widely functioned as facilitator for conflict resolution in interstate conflicts and, thus, constructed Norwegian foreign policy as an international peace pro...
Olle Törnquist
This article summarises and reflects a more extensive analysis about the experiences of attempts to develop and apply analytical tools to comprehend the transformation of Indonesian democracy over 15 ...
Kristian Stokke, Pradeep Peiris
This article provides a critical analysis of the public opinion on peace in Sri Lanka, with consideration to two determinants: social differentiation and politicisation of identities. Specifically, it...
Pratikno, Nanang I. Kurniawan
Democratisation in post-Suharto Indonesia has significantly improved political participation, lifting expectation of bringing better political representation. However, various studies prove that such ...
Minna Thaheer
Proportional representation (PR) is favoured as the most suitable form of electoral system for multi-ethnic societies because it allows every vote to be counted. It, therefore, provides a strong incen...
Nirmal R. Dewasiri
This article provides a critical understanding of dynamics behind the roles of the People's Liberation Front (JVP) in post-1977 Sri Lankan politics. Having suffered a severe setback in the early 1970s...
Jayadeva Uyangoda, Pradeep Peiris
This paper is a preliminary report on citizens' understanding and perceptions of democracy in Sri Lanka, as refl ected in a survey carried out in 2004-2005. The survey was a part of a South Asian stud...
Kristian Stokke, Olle Törnquist, Gyda M. Sindre
The earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra on 26 December 2004 unleashed a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that affected more than a dozen countries throughout South and Southeast Asia and stretched as ...