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Burhanuddin Muhtadi is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta. He is also an executive director of the Indonesian Political Indicator (Indikator Politik Indonesia) and the Director of Public Affairs at the Indonesian Survey Institute (Lembaga Survei Indonesia, LSI). His research interests include political Islam, democracy, voting behavior, clientelism and social movement.
Populism, Islamism, and Democratic Decline in Indonesia
Within the academic literature on Indonesian politics, a consensus appears lately to have emerged that populism, Islamism, and democratic regression are the three fundamental, mutually reinforcing forces responsible for impeding Indonesia’s democratic consolidation since the fall of Suharto’s New Order regime in 1998. This article uses empirical polling data of the Indonesian electorate to interpret and clarify the debate surrounding the issue of populism and how it relates to Islamism and democratic regression.
