Book Review: Mietzner, M. (2026). Ruling Indonesia. Jokowi’s Presidency in an Age of Democratic Crisis and Great Power Competition.

University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-07807-3. 282 pages

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Rakhmat Hidayat, Universitas Negeri Jakarta

Rakhmat Hidayat is associate professor at the Department of Education Sociology, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia. He earned his PhD from Université Lumière Lyon 2, France, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tampere, Finland. His academic research primarily focuses on the sociology of ethnicity and Indigenous peoples in Indonesia.

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Mietzner, M. (2008). Military politics, Islam and the state in Indonesia: From turbulent transition to democratic consolidation. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Mietzner, M. (2013). Money, power, and ideology: Political parties in post-authoritarian Indonesia. NUS Press.

Mietzner, M. (2015). Reinventing Asian populism: Jokowi’s rise, democracy, and political contestation in Indonesia (Policy Studies 72). East-West Center.

Mietzner, M. (2023). The coalitions presidents make: Presidential power and its limits in democratic Indonesia. Cornell University Press.

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Robison, R., & Hadiz, V. R. (2004). Reorganising power in Indonesia: The politics of oligarchy in an age of markets. Routledge Curzon.

Warburton, E. (2023). Resource nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, big business, and the state. Cornell University Press.

Winters, J. A. (2011). Oligarchy. Cambridge University Press.

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