Power and Political Culture in Suharto's Indonesia: The Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) and Decline of the New Order (1986-98)Under Indonesia's authoritarian New Order regime, the continued existence of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) was meant to demonstrate the ostensibly democratic character of the regime. In essence, this small nationalist-Christian coalition was meant to fill the role of pliant state corporatist party. From the later 1980s, however, the PDI became more openly critical of government policies and came to stand out as the major proponent of reform within the formal politica system. The government responded in 1996 by engineering the removal of the populat Megwati Sukarnoputri as PDI leader, a move that significantly damaged the popular legitimacy and moral standing of the regime. |
Contents
Questions and Perspectives | 1 |
Parties and Political Culture in TwentiethCentury Indonesia | 23 |
The Foundations of New Order Political Culture | 44 |
The PDI 197386 | 63 |
Pancasila Democracy and Sukarno Revival in the 1987 Election | 78 |
Openness and the Turn to Opposition 198792 | 105 |
A Populist Opposition? The PDI in the 1992 Election | 141 |
The 1993 MPR Session | 171 |
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