Soldiers, Parties and Bureaucrats: illicit fund-raising in contemporary Indonesia

dc.contributor.authorMietzner, Marcus
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:31:15Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.updated2015-12-07T10:14:30Z
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses illicit fund-raising efforts in Indonesia's armed forces, political parties and bureaucracy after the fall of Suharto in 1998. It argues that while personal self-enrichment remains a key motivation for military leaders, party politicians and bureaucrats to collect off-budget funds, there are also other crucial factors. Most importantly, all three sectors aim to control independent funds in order to maintain or strengthen their autonomy from other state institutions, such as parliamentary budget commissions, executive monitoring bodies or official auditing boards. By engaging in extensive self-financing practices, however, the three political actors undermine their own professionalism, functional effectiveness and internal coherence, and obstruct Indonesia's process of democratic consolidation.
dc.identifier.issn0967-828X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/22687
dc.publisherUniversity of London
dc.sourceSouth East Asia Research
dc.subjectKeywords: autonomy; bureaucracy; corruption; democracy; institutional framework; military intervention; party politics; political economy; state building; Asia; Eurasia; Indonesia; Southeast Asia Bureaucracy; Corruption; Democracy; Indonesia; Military; Parties
dc.titleSoldiers, Parties and Bureaucrats: illicit fund-raising in contemporary Indonesia
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage254
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage225
local.contributor.affiliationMietzner, Marcus, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu9800475@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidMietzner, Marcus, u9800475
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160606 - Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3391657xPUB23
local.identifier.citationvolume16
local.identifier.doi10.5367/000000008785260446
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-50949089639
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu3391657
local.type.statusPublished Version

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