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Illiberal Democracy in Indonesia - The Ideology of the Family State (Paperback)
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Illiberal Democracy in Indonesia - The Ideology of the Family State (Paperback)
Series: Politics in Asia
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Illiberal Democracy in Indonesia charts the origins and development
of organicist ideologies in Indonesia from the early 20th century
to the present. In doing so, it provides a background to the
theories and ideology that informed organicist thought, traces key
themes in Indonesian history, examines the Soeharto regime and his
'New Order' in detail, and looks at contemporary Indonesia to
question the possibility of past ideologies making a resurgence in
the country. Beginning with an exploration of the origins of the
theory of the organic state in Europe, this book explores how this
influenced many young Indonesian scholars and 'secular'
nationalists. It also looks in detail at the case of Japan, and
identifies the parallels between the process by which Japanese and
Indonesian nationalist scholars drew on European romantic
organicist ideas to forge 'anti-Western' national identities and
ideologies. The book then turns to Indonesia's tumultuous history
from the revolution to 1965, the rise of Soeharto, and how his
regime used organicist ideology, together with law and terror, to
shape the political landscape consolidate control. In turn, it
shows how the social and economic changes wrought by the
government's policies, such as the rise of a cosmopolitan middle
class and a rapidly growing urban proletariat led to the failure of
the corporatist political infrastructure and the eventual collapse
of the New Order in 1998. Finally, the epilogue surveys the post
Soeharto years to 2014, and how growing disquiet about the
inability of the government to contain religious intolerance,
violence and corruption, has led to an increased readiness to
re-embrace not only more authoritarian styles of rule but also
ideological formulas from the past. This book will be welcomed by
students and scholars of Southeast Asia, politics and political
theory, as well as by those interested in authoritarian regimes,
democracy and human rights.
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