Indonesia Update 2009 Democracy in practice: campaigns, parties and parliaments

Abstract

The annual Indonesia Update Conference, now in its 27th year, was held at the Australian National University on 9–10 October 2009. It attracted an audience of well over 300 people from academia, government, non-government organisations and business. The conference was convened by Edward Aspinall and Marcus Mietzner of the ANU and featured speakers and discussants from Australia, Indonesia and the US. As the conference theme suggests, 2009 was ‘the year of voting frequently’ for Indonesia, with elections for parliaments and heads of government at all levels, culminating in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's re-election in July.

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¹Other conference papers will be published in 2010 by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in the Indonesia Update series.