Factors Influencing Political System Of Indonesia

With a population of 258,316,051, Indonesia has a colourful city, culture and people. Indonesia’s capital is Jakarta and it holds the majority of Indonesia’s population. The main languages in Indonesia are Bahasa Indonesia, English in addition to Dutch as well as the local dialects. Their currency is IDR (Indonesian Rupiah). The topics covered in this report include tourism, defence and education.

The Government is greatly affected by political culture, especially who gets elected. Religion is a big factor. Religions have different beliefs and this causes some candidates

When it comes to political factors, the government stability, taxation policy, social welfare policies and trae regulations shoule be considered.

After Suharto ended his long dictatorial reign in 1998 there was a substantial increase in religious and ethnic conflict in Indonesia. Author Jacques Bertrand claims religious and ethnic conflict defined Indonesia’s national model. This resulted in three critical junctures during Suharto’s retirement of his sovereign rule. The three critical junctures defined Indonesia’s “terms of citizenship, and give meaning to the structure and procedures of an institution” (Bertrand, 20). When Suharto left as dictator, major political and social changes consumed Indonesia, which threatened the Indonesian realm. The people of Indonesia struggled to define their sense of nationalism.

This chapter elaborates on three proposed political reform agenda this paper discusses. The Political party development act deals with providing minimal standards for party operations. It also prohibits party switching while encouraging party loyalty and discipline. By amending the Party-list system act of 1995, the definition of party-list sort out. It is for proportional representation, as what the Constitution states. Thus, this amendment ensures party-list groups to receive a state subsidy for development. The upcoming Constitutional amendment should also include electoral reforms. A clear definition of what forms a party and a party-list is essential to not create confusion. These three proposals intertwine and cross-cut to

Some leading scholars, both Indonesian and foreigner have identified the drawbacks of legal systems in Indonesia. Lev (1990) revealed that harsh criticisms of the law in Indonesia have actually begun since 1960, especially when social injustice began to occur. Alkostar (2000) then argued the cause of this situation because of the misuses of law enforcement. Next, Juwana (2006) analysed how the legislators did not give proper attention to whether laws that they made later can be implemented or not, especially in areas outside Java island as the gap between Java and outside Java was still high. Furthermore, some laws were not realistic because they have been issued to follow an order of the political elite, foreign countries and international financial institutions instead of people’s demand. For example, the political elite may determine that legislation was enacted in

Timor-Leste has seen a change, with a decline in political stability and a rise in the absence of terrorism. “Until early 2006, the appearance of relative stability in post-independence- was important, as East Timor started its life as an independent state” (Kingsbury & Leach , 2007, p. 2). In 2000 it was a period of relatively stable governing, however it takes a sharp turn with the 2007 Parliamentary and Presidential elections. These elections, combined with the 2006 riots leaves Timor-Leste with high violence and a very low level of stability from their government. During the aftermath of this violence and unrest the governance indicators fell from 59 per cent to 19 percent which was recorded one year after the elections (The World Bank Group, 2015). This is a large drop, especially for a country which is in its infancy of independence. In a country which has just been given its independence it is hard to bounce back from such instability and violence, this is due to the lack of experience which many older independent nations would have the experience to control the situation. Due to their political system if one member on the voting ballot does not get 50 per cent plus one vote, they will go to a second vote with the two highest candidates. After this election campaign for presidency in April and subsequently, May there was the Parliamentary election in June. The Parliamentary election resulted in a split house with political parties having to align with each other in

President of Indonesia Jowo Widodo and Vice President of Indonesia Jusuf Kalla designing nine priority agenda, the nine programs were called Nawa Cita. This program was initiated to indicate priority roads changes towards a sovereign Indonesia politically, as well as independent in the field of economics and personality in culture. There are 3 point of Nawa Cita to fix the poverty : 3th Nawa Cita is to build Indonesia from the suburbs by strengthening those areas and villages in the framework of the unitary state, 5th Nawa Cita is to improve the

The political state of countries today is always changing and developing into new and hopefully more efficient methods of running a country. In comparing and contrasting the political setup of two countries a good understanding of the different systems is easily seen. The fall of Communism in many parts of the world has triggered countries like Russia to create new political systems and political parties. This also changes the functioning of the economy and the military. Likewise in India, changes are almost seen daily in the ruling of the country. Comparing and contrasting these two countries involves many areas including the political parties, legislative branch and the executive branch.

Indonesia is one of the largest and most varied archipelagos on Earth that sit between Asia and Australia, and share borders with Papa New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. With continuous economic, democratic, and political growth, Indonesia’s abundance of natural resources and location in the heart of Asia’s trade routes can potentially put its region in the forefront to becoming a region that will power global economic expansion in the future. Indonesia’s first President, Sukarno, was a highly respected for his pivotal role in Indonesia’s fight for independence, but his consolidation of political power and old way quickly swayed the people’s support, and forced his resignation. In the years following an unruly

Two rounds of gubernatorial election occurred in February and April of 2017 to elect a governor of the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta. Popular incumbent governor Basuki Tjahaja or “Ahok” was expected to have a tight race. Unfortunately, after a series groundbreaking religious manipulations by the organization the Islamic Defenders Front (F.P.I. in Bahasa), he decisively lost to Anies Baswedan. Through usage of Ashok's double minority status as a Christian and ethnic chinese the F.P.I. managed to convince voters he was not the right fit, even after his success in creating a more transparent budget and improving infrastructure. The F.P.I persuaded people through flashy, deceitful, slogans accusations of blasphemy and capitalizing on

Despite the efforts of NGO’s who tried to bring awareness to the communities in rural districts of Indonesia, these efforts are being ruined by the fragmentation of political power such as the military, police, political elites and other security forces who have their own interests and seek their own mutual benefits on revenue.

Following independence, Sukarno took over Indonesia in 1957 and implemented a closed economic policy that rejected foreign capital and focused on creating a greater role for government nationalism (Dieleman, 2006). Although Sukarno’s policies attempted to favor indigenous businessmen with his Benteng program, Sudono and Indonesia’s Chinese minority economically

In order to thoroughly analyse this phenomena, this research report will firstly evaluate the demographic of the voters, Jokowi and Ahok’s team formation, election strategy, their opponents’ strategy, the role of conventional media, discussion of the campaigns in comparison of the old style and within the larger political situation.

Menurut konteks penerapan di Indonesia, demokrasi merupakan perwujudan dari aspirasi rakyat, kemudian diolah oleh suatu badan pemerintahan yang terdiri dari wakil rakyat terpilih melalui pemilihan umum, agar tercipta kemakmuran dan ketentraman dari rakyat itu sendiri. Dengan kata lain, demokrasi membolehkan seseorang untuk berpendapat, membentuk partai politik, kebebasan pers, juga kebebasan untuk membentuk organisasi dan berkumpul [Powell, 2003].