Democracy and the Rule of Law in Indonesia

This book explores democratic development in Indonesia-the world's third-largest democracy after India and the United States.

Stefanus Hendrianto is a visiting assistant professor at Creighton University School of Law, USA.

Introduction; 1. Republican Democracy and Rule of Law: A Theoretical Assessment; 2. On the Founding Moment: The Birth and Collapse of the Indonesian Republic; 3. Imagined Constitutions: The Success and Failure of Amending Constitutional Identity; 4: The Post-1998 Democracy: The Restlessness of the Democratic Soul; 5: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Indonesia's Difficult Journey to Democracy and Rule of Law; 6: The Sounds of Contradiction: The Rise of the People's President and the Authoritarian Constitutionalism; 7: "The Last Page of the Constitution": Democratic Blockage and the Subversion of the Rule of Law; 8: Dare We Hope That Indonesia Will Become a Democratic Republic?