Half-Hearted Reform: Electoral Institutions and the Struggle for Democracy in IndonesiaBloomsbury Academic, 2003 M04 30 - 256 pages King provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the reforms in the core institutions of democratic representation, political parties, elections, and legislatures that led the way from late 1998 through 2001. These reforms are placed in historical perspective, compared both with the electoral institutions of Suharto's New Order and with the first democratic election in 1955. King also examines the political struggles during the legislative process and identifies the compromises reached between hardliners and reformers. The new electoral policies are juxtaposed to actual practices—imlpementation—during the 1999 election at both the national and subnational levels, the latter through a case study in the heartland of Java. |
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... voters . About 85 percent of eligible voters were registered in advance and many others were allowed " instant registration " at the polling sta- tions on election day.5 The official campaign period , seventeen days long , began on May ...
... Voter registration got off to a slow start beginning April 5 , appar- ently due to the change from passive to active mode in which pro- spective voters were required to take the initiative and to the truncated registration period ...
... voters , especially those omitted from the list of registered voters that had been prepared for the previous 1997 election . Second , multiparty committees turned out to be a mixed blessing , beginning at the village level and at every ...
Contents
Historical Background | 15 |
Debate and Design | 47 |
Implementation of the 1999 Election | 75 |
Copyright | |
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