Democracy & Civil Rights

March 2024

News/Indonesia
Detik.com – March 12, 2024

Jauh Hari Wawan S, Sleman – The Gajah Mada University (UGM) academic community has issued a statement through the "Campus Accuses: Uphold Ethics and the Constitution, Strengthen Democracy" movement, in which they criticised the current state of democracy and called for the restoration of ethics and the constitution that h

News/Indonesia
Kompas.id – March 8, 2024

Sonya Hellen Sinombor – Hundreds of women from various women's organisations commemorated International Women's Day (IWD) 2024 by marching from the Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) offices to the National Monument (Monas) area in Central Jakarta on Friday March 8.

News/Indonesia
Kompas.com – March 5, 2024

Dani Prabowo, Jakarta – Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto says that democracy in Indonesia is still messy and very costly.

January 2024

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – January 27, 2024

[From an oped piece in Kompas.com by Boni Hargens titled "Leaving Plato's Cave".]

Analysis/Indonesia
Indo News – January 11, 2024

Jakarta – A study by the Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (INDEF) on the decline of democracy in Indonesia since 2020 found that the results were not pleasing. If this decline in democracy continues, the result is predicted to be worse than expected.