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Is Prabowo Subianto qualified to be Indonesia's next president?
- Pat Walsh
- 17 January 2024
5 Comments
Over 200,000,000 Indonesians are currently weighing up who to elect from three candidates as their next president. Australia has nothing to gain from a Prabowo presidency and a lot to lose.
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INTERNATIONAL

Indonesian democracy is at a crossroads
- Nicholas Bugeja
- 02 July 2019
7 Comments
Indonesian democracy has proven resilient to challenge and made inroads into combatting problems that have beset the country for decades. But a crossroads approaches. A failure to manage religious radicalism and intolerance, corruption, and other social tensions may imperil or destabilise this democratic epoch.
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INTERNATIONAL

Ahok is innocent and Indonesia needs him
- Pat Walsh
- 15 May 2017
11 Comments
Did he denounce Islam as 'evil' like the American evangelist Franklin Graham? Did he publicly denounce God as 'stupid' like Stephen Fry? On the contrary. Ahok is deeply respectful of Islam and has many Muslim supporters. The affair has done a serious disservice to Indonesia, presenting it as fanatical, racist and sectarian. While these perceptions are unfair, the affair also reveals some aspects of contemporary Indonesia that are obscured by Canberra's often lavish praise of our important neighbour.
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Indonesia shows its ugly side with regressive executions
- Pat Walsh
- 29 April 2015
16 Comments
Indonesia is a country of great promise with a significant, maybe crucial, contribution to make to our troubled world. As a very large, pluralist, Muslim-majority democracy it offers a template for other societies in transition. President SBY was acutely aware of this opportunity and through his democracy forums and other initiatives did much to re-brand Indonesia in this positive light. All this good work is being undone by the anal, small-town thinking the executions represent.
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INTERNATIONAL

New Indonesian president offers hope for West Papua
- Pat Walsh
- 01 September 2014
4 Comments
Since its foundation as a modern state in the 1940s, Indonesia has been plagued by a series of conflicts that have threatened the dream of a united republic, inflicted grievous human rights violations and poisoned perceptions of the place, not least in Australia. Only West Papua, perhaps the most complex and intractable of them all, remains.
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INTERNATIONAL

Indonesia's new paradigm must include the past
- Pat Walsh
- 29 July 2014
10 Comments
The day after the result of Indonesia's presidential election was announced, I joined crowds of excited Indonesians in central Jakarta to celebrate Jokowi's election as Indonesia's seventh president. Did you see the rainbow? asked a supporter. I hadn't, but even if the heavens had opened and soaked everybody to the skin, it would have been taken as another sign that God too had voted for Jokowi.
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INTERNATIONAL

Australia should be worried about a Prabowo presidency
- Pat Walsh
- 07 July 2014
3 Comments
Both candidates for Indonesia's 9 July presidential election – Jokowi and Prabowo – have said Australia does not seem to trust Indonesia, but they would continue President SBY’s good neighbour policy. Prabowo later repeated this assurance to the media and diplomats. His message is that Australia and the international community have nothing to worry about from a Prabowo presidency. The prospects are very different.
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INTERNATIONAL

Nailing Indonesia's next president
- Pat Walsh
- 24 June 2014
9 Comments
On 9 July, Indonesians will vote on their next president by punching a hole in a ballot paper with a large nail. Timor-Leste used the same system for its historic independence ballot in 1999. The issues differ of course but the choices to be made are equally stark. Democratic development and human rights in Indonesia will either advance or regress depending on who is nailed next month.
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INTERNATIONAL

Kevin Rudd and Indonesia's Obama
- Pat Walsh
- 04 July 2013
10 Comments
Rudd's visit to Jakarta this week will be judged on the outcome of asylum seeker discussions. But he needs also to send a clear message about Australia's hopes for next year's presidential elections. Candidates include a former military commander with a dubious human rights record, and a civilian being described as Indonesia's Obama.
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AUSTRALIA

Guerrilla to President: Xanana Gusmão
- Sara Niner
- 22 May 2006
This year’s May anniversary of independence for Timor Leste is Xanana Gusmão’s second as President and the country’s fifth as a free territory. Sara Niner looks at the current political machinations.
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Keywords: Prabowo