An Inside Job: Indonesia's Path to Constitutional Democracy

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An Inside Job: Indonesia's Path to Constitutional Democracy

The International Forum for Democratic Studies
at the National Endowment for Democracy

cordially invites you to a luncheon presentation entitled

An Inside Job: Indonesia's Path to Constitutional Democracy

featuring

Donald Horowitz
Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow

moderated by

Marc F. Plattner

National Endowment for Democracy

Thursday, November 29, 2012
12 noon–2:00 p.m.
(Lunch served 12:00–12:30 p.m.)

1025 F Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20004
Telephone: 202-378-9675

RSVP (acceptances only) with name and affiliation by Tuesday, November 27.

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After the fall of President Suharto in 1998, Indonesia pursued an unusual course of democratization. It was insider-dominated, gradualist, and sequenced so that free elections preceded constitutional reform. The reform process lasted several years, at the end of which Indonesia's amended constitution was essentially a radically new and thoroughly democratic document. By proceeding in this unusual way—without an outside body drafting a new constitution at an early, single point in time—the Indonesians averted the great conflict that would have arisen between adherents of the old constitution and proponents of radical, immediate reform. At the same time, the particular institutions Indonesians adopted helped to prevent bifurcation of opposing groups and instead produced a healthier politics of multipolar fluidity. Indonesian democracy is far from perfect, but, Professor Donald Horowitz will argue in his presentation, the outcome of the reform process that was chosen is better than alternative processes were likely to produce. For this reason, the Indonesian experience challenges some standard prescriptions about when, how, and by whom constitutions should be made.

Donald L. Horowitz is James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University, where he has taught since 1981. He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2010–2011 and a Jennings Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 2011–2012. He has also been a visiting professor or visiting fellow at a number of other institutions, including the University of Chicago, the Central European University, and Wolfson College (Cambridge). In 2009, he was presented with the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association. Professor Horowitz has advised on constitutional and electoral-system design in a number of countries. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993, he served as president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy from 2007 to 2010, and in 2011 he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the Flemish-speaking Free University of Brussels. He is the author of seven books, including Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia (in press, 2012), The Deadly Ethnic Riot (2001), and Ethnic Groups in Conflict (1985). During his fellowship, Professor Horowitz is working on a book concerning constitutional design for ethnically divided societies.

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