Necessity as a force for change: Refuting reform optimists and reform skeptics of contemporary Indonesia

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This article seeks to situate the current political polity of post-reformasi Indonesia by arguing against reform optimists and reform skeptics. It argues that necessity had given rise to widespread reforms within Indonesia. However, as a “politics-as-usual” atmosphere re-dominated the political landscape, the pace of reform was not as qualitatively comprehensive, its scope and variety decreased. Nonetheless, earlier necessity-driven reforms had set in place the bulwark of immutable change within Indonesia’s political landscape that makes recentralization, or rather a reversion to New Order authoritarianism quite impractical.

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Chen, J., & Sebastian, L. C. (2019). Necessity as a force for change: Refuting reform optimists and reform skeptics of contemporary Indonesia. Revista UNISCI, 2019(50), 9–26. https://doi.org/10.31439/UNISCI-46

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