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Old Habits Die Hard

Monday, December 9, 2019

Lobbying by Golkar Party’s elite resulted in intervention by those in power. Their opportunistic habits from the past have preserved an oligarchy and political cartels.

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It turns out the Golkar Party has still not gotten over its habit of the past: cleaving itself to those in power by any means possible. This old bad habit, a legacy from the New Order era, has made sure Golkar will never be a fully democratic modern political party.

Golkar’s incapability of abandoning its patronage tendencies towards the powerful elite is one of the reasons of Indonesian low quality of democracy. As the party with

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