Democracy in Indonesia: From Stagnation to Regression?

Indonesia has long been hailed as a rare case of democratic transition and persistence in an era of global democratic setbacks. But as the country enters its third decade of democracy, such laudatory assessments have become increasingly untenable. The stagnation that characterized Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s second presidential term has given way to a more far-reaching pattern of democratic re…

Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values

Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and progressive camps with increasingly antagonistic views on the place of Islam in society. Debates over the underlying principles of democratisation have further heated up a…

Children's Book of Politics

Why would the ancient Greeks think modern democracies are undermocratic?

Matinya Socrates

Dihadapkan pada hukuman mati karena tuduhan "telah meracuni pikiran orang-orang muda", Socrates dengan tenang dan tetap bermartabat terus bertanya jawab dengan sahabat-sahabatnya, memburu dan berbagai pengetahuan. Maka terangkatlah bermacam persoalan hakiki dan ultima dalam kehidupan: jiwa, raga, kebenaran, kebajikan, keindahan, dan terutama kematian. Dialog ini mengungkap pandangan radikal …

Mounting fears

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The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

Humankind has always asked profound questions about how we can best govern ourselves and how rulers should behave. The Politics Book charts the development of long-running themes, such as attitudes to democracy and violence, developed by thinkers from Confucius in ancient China to Mahatma Gandhi in 20th-century India. Justice goes hand in hand with politics, and in this comprehensive guide,…

The House of Rothschild Illuminati (terjemahan)

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Satu Menit Pencerahan B. J. Habibie: 100 Pencerahan dan Kiat Inspiratif

Tidak sekadar menyuguhkan gagasan-gagasan pencerahan, dalam buku ini kita bisa juga menguji konsistensi B.J. Habibie dalam berbagai gagasan yang pernah dilemparkannya. Ternyata gagasan yang telah melewati lintas waktu, esensinya tidak berbeda seperti yang disampaikannya 30 tahun yang lalu. Tentang keislaman, keindonesiaan, teknologi, nilai tambah, Pancasila, kodrat wanita dan lain-lain. Bahkan …

Who's in Charge? (Dk)

Meet the people who really run the world and learn the low down about people, politics, power and expense scandals! How are governments elected, why are different countries ruled in different ways and where does all that tax money actually go? Let your child join this lively debate on politics around the world. They'll find out how different systems and beliefs have developed, the ways in…

The Prince

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge." For nearly 500 years, Machiavelli's observations on Realpolitik have shocked and appalled the timid and romantic, and for many his name…