Update Book Launch: The Jokowi Presidency

Join us for a special event celebrating the 60th anniversary of the ANU Indonesia Project with the launch of our latest Update Book: The Jokowi Presidency. Edited by Sana Jaffrey and Eve Warburton, The Jokowi Presidency is the latest edition in the Indonesia Update Series. Come and hear directly from contributors and editors as they unpack the legacies, challenges, and ongoing debates sparked by one of Indonesia’s most consequential leaders.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with the ideas shaping Indonesia’s future.

Monday, 28 July 2025, 4pm - 5:30pm AEST
Coombs Tea Room, HC Coombs Building
9 Fellows Rd, Acton ACT

This is an in-person event only with limited seat availability. Registration is essential.

About the Book

Edited by Sana Jaffrey and Eve Warburton, this volume examines Jokowi’s political evolution and the impact he has had on Indonesia. It casts Jokowi’s decade in office as one of authoritarian revival, which saw the return of statist developmentalism in the economic sphere and the resurrection of New Order–era tactics of co-optation and repression in the political sphere. The volume brings together experts from a wide range of fields, including foreign policy, security, economics, politics, law and human rights. In different ways, all contributors view Jokowi as a disruptive president, whose ambitious developmental agenda came at a high cost for Indonesia’s democracy.

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