Fadhilah Primandari
@dhilaprimandari.bsky.social
ESRC-funded doctoral candidate at the Department of Government, University of Essex. I research conceptualisations of democracy and democratic consolidation. Website: http://www.fadhilahprimandari.work
Democracy in Indonesia has experienced serious setback this past year. In our piece for The Conversation, M. Ammar Hidayahtulloh and I argue that this setback is underlain by a paternalistic and masculinist logic of doing politics (article is in Bahasa Indonesia):
doi.org/10.64628/AAN...
doi.org/10.64628/AAN...
Rezim Prabowo: Politik maskulin paternalistik, kesetaraan gender hanya omon-omon
Rezim Prabowo mencerminkan politik yang maskulin dan paternalistik. Ini terwujud dalam penguatan militerisme, pemerintahan antikritik, dan kebijakan gender simbolis.
doi.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Democracy in Indonesia has experienced serious setback this past year. In our piece for The Conversation, M. Ammar Hidayahtulloh and I argue that this setback is underlain by a paternalistic and masculinist logic of doing politics (article is in Bahasa Indonesia):
doi.org/10.64628/AAN...
doi.org/10.64628/AAN...
On top of eroding civil liberties, the Indonesian government has been employing a discursive strategy to delegitimise its critics' democratic agency. In my short piece published by the LSE SEA Centre's blog, I explore two of these discursive strategies: blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2025/09...
Denial of Democratic Agency as an Authoritarian Tactic: Reflections from Indonesia - LSE Southeast Asia Blog
The increasing presence of the military in civilian affairs, police brutality and erosion of civil liberties signify further movement towards autocracy in Indonesia. In addition, the Indonesian govern...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
On top of eroding civil liberties, the Indonesian government has been employing a discursive strategy to delegitimise its critics' democratic agency. In my short piece published by the LSE SEA Centre's blog, I explore two of these discursive strategies: blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2025/09...
If backlash against women's inclusion constitutes democratic deconsolidation, why has it been possible to declare a democracy as consolidated without women? My short blog for ECPR's The Loop:
🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.117
Feminist scholarship is warning of a backlash against #GenderEquality and women’s inclusion. ♂️♀️ Fadhilah Primandari revisits our understanding of democratic consolidation and asks: is it biased towards men’s political domination?
👉 bit.ly/4njuYSo
Feminist scholarship is warning of a backlash against #GenderEquality and women’s inclusion. ♂️♀️ Fadhilah Primandari revisits our understanding of democratic consolidation and asks: is it biased towards men’s political domination?
👉 bit.ly/4njuYSo
🦋 Does our understanding of democratic consolidation have a male bias?
Feminist scholarship is warning of a backlash against gender equality and women’s political inclusion. But if anti-gender backlash constitutes democratic deconsolidation, why has it been possible to d...
bit.ly
September 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
If backlash against women's inclusion constitutes democratic deconsolidation, why has it been possible to declare a democracy as consolidated without women? My short blog for ECPR's The Loop:
Yesterday I was interviewed by Radio Študent about the recent protests in Indonesia. Interviewed also were Dr Soe Tjen Marching and Andreas Harsono.
The RŠ programme is in Slovenian, but our answers are in English. My comments start at 1:17, and then 7:41: radiostudent.si/politika/off...
The RŠ programme is in Slovenian, but our answers are in English. My comments start at 1:17, and then 7:41: radiostudent.si/politika/off...
Proti poslanskim privilegijem
radiostudent.si
September 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Yesterday I was interviewed by Radio Študent about the recent protests in Indonesia. Interviewed also were Dr Soe Tjen Marching and Andreas Harsono.
The RŠ programme is in Slovenian, but our answers are in English. My comments start at 1:17, and then 7:41: radiostudent.si/politika/off...
The RŠ programme is in Slovenian, but our answers are in English. My comments start at 1:17, and then 7:41: radiostudent.si/politika/off...
Reposted by Fadhilah Primandari
Read this. Millions of Indonesians are in the streets protesting the policies of a corrupt president and his legislative flunkies.
🦅 🇮🇩 Selamat berjuang 🇮🇩 🦅
🦅 🇮🇩 Selamat berjuang 🇮🇩 🦅
If you are wondering what happened in Indonesia yesterday, this is the whole summary. I don't care if you dislike politics, but it's about humanity. It would be greatly appreciated if my English speaker friends here try to educate themselves and share this as a form of spreading more awareness.
August 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read this. Millions of Indonesians are in the streets protesting the policies of a corrupt president and his legislative flunkies.
🦅 🇮🇩 Selamat berjuang 🇮🇩 🦅
🦅 🇮🇩 Selamat berjuang 🇮🇩 🦅
My latest article, discussing how most Indonesians' understanding of democracy may make efforts to sustain widespread resistance against the erosion of civil supremacy challenging:
eastasiaforum.org/2025/04/22/i...
eastasiaforum.org/2025/04/22/i...
Indonesian democracy takes another hit
Revisions to Indonesia’s law on the National Military undermine democracy and test public readiness to defend civil supremacy.
eastasiaforum.org
April 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
My latest article, discussing how most Indonesians' understanding of democracy may make efforts to sustain widespread resistance against the erosion of civil supremacy challenging:
eastasiaforum.org/2025/04/22/i...
eastasiaforum.org/2025/04/22/i...
In Indonesia, contesting the government's conception of democracy has been part of the fight against democratic backsliding. My piece on the politics of (re)defining democracy in Indonesia, published by The Diplomat:
thediplomat.com/2025/04/cont...
thediplomat.com/2025/04/cont...
Contesting Prabowo Subianto’s Polite Democracy
The Indonesian leader claims to support democracy, but only in terms of a stifling notion of national “unity.”
thediplomat.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
In Indonesia, contesting the government's conception of democracy has been part of the fight against democratic backsliding. My piece on the politics of (re)defining democracy in Indonesia, published by The Diplomat:
thediplomat.com/2025/04/cont...
thediplomat.com/2025/04/cont...