Explaining the 2009 Parliamentary and Presidential Votes in Indonesia
November 13, 2009
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM,
1636 SSWB/International Institute
Host Department: Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS)
R. William Liddle Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University
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Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim-majority country. It is also one of the few successful democracies in the Islamic world. Following more than three decades of military rule, Indonesians have held free national elections in 1999, 2004, and 2009, the last two for both parliament and president. In this presentation, Professor Liddle deploys extensive survey data from the Indonesian Survey Institute in Jakarta to explain why Indonesian voters in 2009 reelected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for a second five-year term and overwhelmingly rejected parties supporting an Islamic state.
R. William Liddle is professor of political science at Ohio State University and an observer of Indonesian politics since the early 1960s. Recent publications include: “Leadership, Party, and Religion: Explaining Voting Behavior in Indonesia,” Comparative Political Studies (July 2007) and “Muslim Indonesia’s Secular Democracy,” Asian Survey (July-August 2009), both co-authored with Saiful Mujani, executive director of the Indonesian Survey Institute in Jakarta.
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