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Politics of Citizenship in Indonesia

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This book presents case studies of citizenship in diverse contexts and angles to reveal how citizens engage in public life. It aims to bring citizens and citizenship to the fore, instead of leaving them in the background of the democratisation studies and real democratisation processes. Democracy is far more than granting individual rights to citizens. Democracy, in this book, is a matter of citizens' engagement in coming to terms with public affairs.

The scope of this engagement is far too extensive for this book to cover. However, the cases covered here are quite complicated. This is to say that the challenge of democratisation is to come to terms with the complexity of the articulation of citizens' interests and the diverse expressions of citizenship. The idea of democracy presupposes the existence and role of active citizens, a demos. However, the main discourse on democracy has not been on the citizens in the demos. Instead, it refers to the idea of a political system or state that merely sets citizens in the background. Democratisation movements inevitably bring citizens to the fore, not only in their own struggles but also in studies of them.

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Series Title

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Call Number

RD 323.1 POL

Publisher

Jakarta : Yayasan Obor Indonesia., 2017

Collation

viii + 294 hlm.; 16 x 24 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9786024335076

Classification

323.1

Content Type

digital text

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Edition

1st ed.

Subject(s)

Indonesia
Politic
Citizenship

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Statement of Responsibility

Eric Hiariej & Kristian Stokke (ed.)

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