The past several weeks have seen sustained unrest in Indonesian Papua. The proximate cause was the shameful treatment of Papuan students living in Surabaya, East Java who were alleged to have desecrated the Indonesian flag on Indonesia’s independence day. But this is just a trigger; the issues are far deeper. Today’s article in the Sydney […]
Category: Indonesia
Islamist Parties in Indonesia’s 2019 Legislative Elections
In an earlier post about Indonesia's 2019 elections, I examined the correlates of support for presidential candidate Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and VP candidate Ma'ruf Amin. The central message in that analysis was that non-Muslims and Javanese Muslims voted heavily for Jokowi, whereas non-Javanese Muslims were the main supporters of the opposing ticket of Prabowo Subianto […]
