More and more candidate mobilise the support of local ethnic, religious, and community groups to win votes.
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A key electoral reform in 2009 shifted the focus of legislative elections from political parties to individual candidates.
Indonesia’s House of Representatives has repeatedly failed to pass the anti-sexual violence bill into law.
Novrian Arbi/Antara Foto
There is a trend in policy advocacy that pushes back progress and limits women’s freedom of choice.
Students occupy the Indonesian parliament building in May 1998.
Saptono/Antara Foto
In the arc of the nation’s history, the young have always played important and revolutionary roles.
Thousands of students staged protests across the country against proposed changes to the criminal code and a new law that weakened the country’s anti-corruption commission.
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Indonesia passes a regressive anti-democratic law – with more to come – just as BJ Habibie dies, the president who championed the dramatic reform process that transformed Indonesia after 1998.