Couple months ago, I attended this workshop re-inventing "truth Indonesian democracy". The big deal is to promote social democracy which was actually the original political ideology of Indonesian founding fathers. And spirit of Indonesian constitution is very much about it. However, the fall of Sukarno, Indonesian first president, all left ideology was banned. Suharto forcefully led Indonesia to open market system of capitalism since. The fall of Suharto 1999 let Indonesia seek for its right system. Since that, Indonesia is still between "communism phobia" and "searching for right way".
The growing of Islam fundamentalist I believe very much is a side impact of that situation. In one side, we are aware that in terms of economy Indonesia was very much underdeveloped in Sukarno presidency. On the contrary, under Suharto presidency the open market system created huge gap between the have and the poor. Sadly, there is no any president after Suharto (4 presidents) who is convincing Indonesian people where to go and how.
And social democracy is re-vitalized if you could say so. And it seems that it will take a long journey..
The picture below was a session of discussion by three academicians and Budiman Sudjatmiko (speaking). This discussion was supported by FES
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