Journal article
More Competition, Less Opposition: Indonesia's 2024 Regional Elections
ISEAS perspective, (97)
2024
Abstract
Indonesia’s regional elections scheduled for 27 November will be the largest in the nation’s history and the first to extend to all the country’s provinces, regencies and cities. A Constitutional Court ruling in August that significantly lowered candidate eligibility thresholds was opposed by the House of Representatives. However, it backed down from an attempt to legislate around the ruling after widespread public protest broke out. Large party coalitions have nonetheless operated to constrain the parameters of regional electoral contestation, blocking popular candidates and delivering an increase in single candidate no-contest elections. What is emerging is an increasingly opposition-free form of electoralism, in which local and sub-national political elites broker agreements around power and resource sharing.
Details
- Title
- More Competition, Less Opposition: Indonesia's 2024 Regional Elections
- Authors/Creators
- Ian Douglas Wilson (Author) - Murdoch University, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication Details
- ISEAS perspective, (97)
- Publisher
- Yusof Ishak Institute
- Identifiers
- 991005718470307891
- Copyright
- © 2024 Copyright is held by the author or authors of each article.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Indo-Pacific Research Centre; School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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