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Indonesian Democracy Under Threat in ’24 Polls

Jokowi attempts to fashion a dynasty

Our Correspondent
Oct 24, 2023
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The machinations surrounding the nominations for Indonesia’s leading presidential team are setting off alarm bells. A wide range of good-government critics charges that the excesses of the country’s notorious New Order era are returning, overriding the 1998 reforms that were supposed to have eradicated them.

That is because the country’s popular Presiden…

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