Following the revision to Indonesia’s Armed Forces Law’s last year, the slogan #MembacaMelawan populated social media. Using this slogan, people have called for the reading of books critical of injust...

Feminist scholarship is warning of a backlash against gender equality and women’s political inclusion. But if anti-gender backlash constitutes democratic deconsolidation, why has it been possible to d...

Fadhilah Primandari and M. Ammar Hidayahtulloh reflect on the Indonesian government’s response to Sumatra's calamitous floods in November 2025. They argue that when authorities gaslight disaster victi...

Rezim Prabowo mencerminkan politik yang maskulin dan paternalistik. Ini terwujud dalam penguatan militerisme, pemerintahan antikritik, dan kebijakan gender simbolis.

The increasing presence of the military in civilian affairs, police brutality and erosion of civil liberties signify further movement towards autocracy in Indonesia. In addition, the Indonesian govern...

Revisions to Indonesia’s law on the National Military undermine democracy and test public readiness to defend civil supremacy.

The Indonesian leader claims to support democracy, but only in terms of a stifling notion of national “unity.”