Localised impacts on islamist political mobilisation in Indonesia: Evidence from three sub-provincial units

What explains the regionally varying electoral outcomes of Islamist parties in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim democracy? By employing a three-stage approach inspired by Evan Lieberman’s nested analysis, this article aims to gain a better understanding of how adaptability to local political co...

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Main Author: Park, Jung Hoon (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press Oktober 2023
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 450-479
Further subjects:B Vote
B Party (law)
B Cause
B Local politics
B Islam and politics
B Political mobilization
B Election
B Islamization
B Indonesia
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Summary:What explains the regionally varying electoral outcomes of Islamist parties in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim democracy? By employing a three-stage approach inspired by Evan Lieberman’s nested analysis, this article aims to gain a better understanding of how adaptability to local political contexts matters in determining the vote share of the Islamist Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) at the subprovincial level. It uncovers that PKS’ electoral mobilisation in non-Javanese regions depends more on whether the party leverages a strong predisposition towards personal votes underpinned by pre-existing clientelistic ties. In contrast, the PKS support base in Java tends to be embedded in specific milieus shaped by deep-seated sociocultural cleavages. The findings thus not only demonstrate the limitations of programmatic, institutionalised parties like PKS in the Indonesian context, but also resonate with a larger body of broader literature on politics in the Muslim world, indicating strategic considerations of local political conditions as an important factor in electoral support for political Islam.(GIGA/J Southeast Asian Stud)
ISSN:1474-0680
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Southeast Asian studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0022463423000474