2012 Talking Points
Our year-end special issue diverges from the usual. Instead of our regular roundup of reports, we asked academics and analysts to review events in Indonesia during the past 12 months and for a reading of what's to come. Their commentaries in this special issue cover a wide range of issues, from politics to extremism and governance, and from the economy to national branding and special education. We also collaborated with a number of institutions to come up with vital statistics that could assist us in interpreting trends and events. And to enrich our coverage, we feature a special collage of photographs to recall the year that was.
December 28, 2011
In the Pursuit of Leaders
While a number of provincial and local elections are scheduled to take place in 2012, the presidential polls are not due until two years away. Yet speculations, suppositions and provocative scenarios have been prolifically feeding the political rumor mills, which analysts interpret as a yearning for a change in leadershipat both the local and national levels. Prospective candidates at this point remain nothing more than a
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