Election Promises and the Exercise of Power

April 6, 2004

  Ignas Kleden
*Sociologist, Director, Center for East Indonesian Affairs, Jakarta

 

POLITICS, according to Bung Karno, consists of at least two issues. The first is the seizure and organization of power (machtsvorming), while the other is its effective application and use (machtsaanwending). This theory is not difficult to understand. Public issues—such as improving the lives of women and child workers, a more equitabl


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