Activists in transition : progressive politics in democratic Indonesia /

Assesses the contribution that nine progressive social movements have made to democratization from the late 1980s and how in turn how each of those movements has been influenced by democratization.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dibley, Thushara (Editor), Ford, Michele (Editor), Sastramidjaja, Yatun L. M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : social movements and deomcratization in Indonesia / Thushara Dibley and Michele Ford
  • Student movements and Indonesia's democratic transition / Yatun Sastramidjaja
  • Democratization and Indonesia's anticorruption movement / Elisabeth Kramer
  • Indonesia's labor movement and democratization / Teri Caraway and Michele Ford
  • Movements for land rights in democratic Indonesia / Iqra Anugrah
  • Urban poor activism and political agency in post-New Order Jakarta / Ian Wilson
  • Reformasi and the decline of liberal Islam / Greg Fealy
  • The women's movement and Indonesia's transition to democracy / Rachel Rinaldo
  • The unfulfilled promise of democracy : lesbian and gay activism in Indonesia / Hendri Wijaya and Sharyn Graham Davies
  • Democratization and disability activism in Indonesia / Thushara Dibley
  • Conclusion : social movements, patronage democracy, and populist backlash in Indonesia / Edward Aspinall.