Join the UBC Centre for Southeast Asian Research for a lecture by Marcus Mietzner, one of the world’s foremost experts on Indonesian politics and the Jokowi era.
After serving two terms as the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo (‘Jokowi’) stepped aside and made way for the inauguration of Prabowo Subianto in October 2024. How should we assess his ten years in power? At the cusp of a new, uncertain era for the country, how are Indonesians grappling with his legacies? Prof Marcus Mietzner has interviewed Jokowi and his ministers over the past several years and has devoted his career to analyzing the Indonesian political system. He will share his insights and expertise about Jokowi’s presidency and what we can expect to come in its wake.
About the Speaker:
Marcus Mietzner is a political scientist and one of the world’s leading experts on contemporary Indonesian politics. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Change at the Australian National University. He is the author of many books, two of which are Money, Power, and Ideology: Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia (NUS, 2013) and The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia (Cornell, 2023).
