The Impact of Indonesia's 2019 Presidential Campaign on The
Open Journal of Political Science, 2020, 10, 705-731 https://www.scirp.org/journal/ojps ISSN Online: 2164-0513 ISSN Print: 2164-0505 The Impact of Indonesia’s 2019 Presidential Campaign on the Human Rights Movement: Narrow Solidarity versus Affinity Saskia E. Wieringa University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands How to cite this paper: Wieringa, S. E. Abstract (2020). The Impact of Indonesia’s 2019 Presidential Campaign on the Human In the April 2019 elections in Indonesia, the incumbent president, Mr. Joko Rights Movement: Narrow Solidarity ver- Widodo, was pitched against former general Mr. Prabowo Subianto. Mr. sus Affinity. Open Journal of Political Widodo won his first term with a strong human rights agenda that was sup- Science, 10, 705-731. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2020.104041 ported by thousands of human rights activists. In his 2019 campaign, the fo- cus was on the country’s economic development. During this campaign, au- Received: July 6, 2020 thoritarian tools were widely used to stifle criticism of the incumbent. The Accepted: October 17, 2020 human rights movement became strongly polarized between adherents of the Published: October 20, 2020 two presidential candidates. Both camps waged a fierce social media war in Copyright © 2020 by author(s) and which hoaxes and slander were spread. The political blocs quickly reconciled Scientific Research Publishing Inc. after the elections, striving for a politics based on consensus. Army factions This work is licensed under the Creative and Muslim parties that had supported the different sides also soon closed Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0).
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