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6 - The Shape of the New System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

Donald L. Horowitz
Donald L. Horowitz
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Duke University, North Carolina
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Following the 2004 national elections and the provincial and regional elections held from 2005 to 2008, the shape of the new political system became fairly clear. It was modified somewhat by legislation put in place for subsequent elections but, for the most part, not in fundamental ways, although some electoral-law changes enacted in 2012 could have a significant impact. The contours of the system can be appraised by examining the presidency, the role of parties in the national legislature, their role in regional elections and regional legislatures, the allegiances of voters, and the evolving party configuration in national elections.

The presidency became a strong office, which all the large parties aspired to occupy, but it was not a wholly unified office. We have observed that the need for a coalition ticket crossing lines between ethnic and religious streams made the vice president a potential rival to the president. This became a millstone that Yudhoyono, the incumbent president, was able to cast off in 2009.

Within the DPR, we have also noted, the president, as head of a weak party from 2004 to 2009, was dependent for legislative support on other parties, most notably Golkar, the party of his vice president. But the legislature continued to hover somewhere between a model of entirely fluid coalitions, on the one hand, and government and opposition, on the other, but certainly closer to the former.

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Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia , pp. 165 - 206
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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  • The Shape of the New System
  • Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia
  • Online publication: 05 February 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139225724.008
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  • Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia
  • Online publication: 05 February 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139225724.008
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