Continuity and Change after Indonesia’s Reforms: Contributions to an Ongoing Assessment by Max Lane

This book addresses one of the most crucial questions in Southeast did the election in Indonesia in 2014 of a seemingly populist-oriented president alter the hegemony of the political and economic elites? Was it the end of the paradox that the basic social contradictions in the country’s substantial capitalist development were not reflected in organized politics by any independent representation of subordinated groups, in spite of democratization? Beyond simplified frameworks, the contributors to this volume discuss whether and how a new Indonesian politics has evolved in a number of crucial fields.