Perceptions of Inequality in Indonesia: A Matter of Partisan Politics? ; ISEAS Perspective ; Issue 2019 NO. 10.

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Autor/Urheber	Burhanuddin Muhtadi; Eve Warburton; Aninda Dewayanti
Titel	Perceptions of Inequality in Indonesia: A Matter of Partisan Politics? ; ISEAS Perspective ; Issue 2019 NO. 10.
Quelle	ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute (2019) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Alleviating Poverty; Anti-Poverty; Extreme Poverty; Fight Against Poverty; Global Poverty; Health Aspects Of Poverty; Indicators Of Poverty; Participatory Poverty Assessment; Poverty Eradication; Poverty Analysis; Poverty In Developing Countries; Urban Poverty; Performance Evaluation; Evaluation Criteria; Development Indicators; Environmental Indicators; Economic Indicators; Educational Indicators; Demographic Indicators; Health Indicators; Disadvantaged Groups; Socially Disadvantaged Children; Aging; Social Conditions; Urban Development; Urban Sociology; Project finance; Needs assessment; Cost benefit analysis; Poor; Economic forecasting; Health expectancy; Social groups; Political participation; Distribution of income; Inequality of income; Developing countries; Mass society; Social change; Social policy; Social stability; Population; Sustainable development; Peasantry; Urban policy; Urban renewal; Participatory monitoring and evaluation; Cost effectiveness
Abstract	Indonesia is a highly unequal country. According to Oxfam, the richest one percent of Indonesians controls 49 percent of the country's wealth. Such disparity is a contentious political issue in a country where corruption scandals are routine, and where a large slice of the wealthiest citizens are from the minority ethnic Chinese community. During President Jokowi's first term in office, levels of inequality improved incrementally. Yet his political adversary and rival in the 2019 presidential elections, Prabowo Subianto, continues to resurrect rhetorical tropes about economic disparities that he has used for almost a decade, which paint Indonesia as a nation of poor, downtrodden slaves exploited by a wealthy elite. In this article, we first look at the state and trajectory of inequality in Indonesia. Next, we reflect on political narratives about economic injustice and inequality in the context of recent election campaigns, and particularly the 2019 presidential election. We then draw on recent survey about how Indonesians themselves feel about inequality, and to consider whether problems of income disparity matter to voters, and whether they matter more to particular constituencies.
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