The Slow Boiling of Indonesian Democracy
Indonesia's democracy is undergoing a gradual transformation, not through constitutional crisis, but through a series of legal amendments and political bargains. Power concentration and the weakening of independent bodies, initiated under President Joko Widodo, are advancing under President Prabowo Subianto, with critics being absorbed into the administration.
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