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.
Event Details:
Date: Monday, 28 July 2025
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm AEST
Location: 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.
The book will be launched by Susannah Patton, Deputy Research Director and Program Director for Southeast Asia, The Lowy Institute.
Books will be available for purchase at this event.
Event Speakers
Susannah Patton
Susannah Patton is Deputy Research Director at the Lowy Institute. She is also the Director of the Institute’s Southeast Asia Program and is responsible for the Asia Power Index, the Institute’s annual data-driven assessment that maps the changing distribution of power in the region.
