As Indonesia’s April elections draw near, the country finds itself confronting once again the challenges of separating the country’s powerful military from civilian politics. The specific issue is a structural problem internal to the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI): a surplus of mid-career officers with insufficient promotion opportunities. This would not be a national conversation were […]
Category: Indonesia
Elite Maneuvering, the Uighur Crisis, and Indonesian Politics
Aaron Connelly recently tweeted about a sudden increase in attention to the Uighur crisis in Indonesia. THREAD: Domestic political pressure on the Indonesian government to take action on the mass internment of Uighurs in #Xinjiang is growing, after a long period of silence from much of civil society and the press. — Aaron Connelly (@ConnellyAL) […]
