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The Reform Narrative

Within the periodization of Indonesian politics, 2018 marks the end of the fourth lustrum of the Reform Era that marked the end of the New Order and Soeharto’s 32-year presidency.

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IGNAS KLEDEN
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Within the periodization of Indonesian politics, 2018 marks the end of the fourth lustrum of the Reform Era that marked the end of the New Order and Soeharto’s 32-year presidency. Various reflections on the Reform dreams and their realization have been made, with many of them taking a critical and even skeptical tone.

A sense of dissatisfaction remains that democracy is yet to be implemented properly and that it has been mainly limited to formal procedures without any substance to ensure freedom and justice for all. The economy has yet to achieve equality in wealth, and the number of poor people remains high. Law enforcement has yet to impose the law equally on all people, without differentiating the rich and the poor, those of the lower strata and those of higher ones, and ordinary and well-connected people.

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