Localising Power in Post–Authoritarian Indonesia – A Southeast Asia Perspective

Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian IndonesiaA Southeast Asia Perspective\nAuthor(s): Vedi Hadiz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804768528, 978-0804768528\nSynopsis\nThis book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralizationeffectively localizing poweras part and parcel of democratization, but also in their efforts to entrench \""good governance.\"" Vedi Hadiz shifts the attention to the accompanying tensions and contradictions that define the terms under which the localization of power actually takes place. In the process, he develops a compelling analysis that ties social and institutional change to the outcomes of social conflict in local arenas of power.\n\n Using the case of Indonesia, and comparing it with Thailand and the Philippines, Hadiz seeks to understand the seeming puzzle of how local.