Introduction
On 14 February, Indonesia will host the world’s largest single-day elections as nearly 205 million voters and 250,000 candidates compete for around 20,000 positions. These will be the fifth direct presidential election and sixth legislative elections since the fall of the deceased dictator Suharto and his 32-year New Order regime in 1998.
Indonesian politics in the post-Suharto democratic era have become increasingly polarised. This has been exacerbated by the state, which, under current President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo, has cracked down on critics, influenced…
