Dave McRae

Indonesia State and Society in Transition

Jemma Purdey, Antje Missbach, Dave McRae

Book  |  2020

Indonesia remains a country in transition even now, some two decades after its extraordinary shift from authoritarianism to democr..

Don't ask, don't tell: academics and electoral politics in Indonesia

Dave McRae, Robertus Robet

Journal article  |  2020  |  Contemporary Politics

Guided by the literature on public sociology and the entry of civil society actors into the state, this paper analyses the increas..

Indonesia’s fading democracy dream

David McRae, Robertus Robet

Journal article  |  2019  |  East Asia Forum: Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific

When Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo triggered mass protests in September over his support for regressive amendments to ..

Indonesia's South China Sea Diplomacy: A Foreign Policy Illiberal Turn?

Dave McRae

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Contemporary Asia

Key areas of Indonesian foreign policy have remained largely autonomous of the political struggles associated with democratisation..

Prabowo cries foul ahead of Indonesian elections

David McRae, Dirk Tomsa

Journal article  |  2019  |  East Asia Forum: Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific

As Prabowo Subianto’s hopes of winning Indonesia’s 17 April presidential election appear to have faded, his campaign has ramped up..

Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 49, No. 5

Editorship  |  2019  |  Journal of Contemporary Asia

Two Decades of Reformasi in Indonesia: Its Illiberal Turn

R Diprose, Dave McRae, Vedi Hadiz

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Contemporary Asia

There has been an accentuation of Indonesian democracy’s illiberal characteristics during the course of reformasi. The religious a..

Another fork in the road for democracy?

David McRae, Dirk Tomsa

Journal article  |  2019  |  Inside Indonesia

A Fair Dinkum Partnership? Australia-Indonesia Ties During the Yudhoyono Era

D McRae

Book Chapter  |  2018

Strangers Next Door?

Tim Lindsey, Dave McRae

Book Chapter  |  2018

Australia and Indonesia’s immediate neighbourhood is changing fundamentally and both countries know it. Indonesian President Joko ..