Populism Contestation in Indonesia Post-Islamist Mass Mobilization
By: Andri Purnawan Introduction The rise of socio-religious mass mobilization is part of the global wave of populism, the notion of political reality in the form of a diametric opposition between 'the people' and 'the elite,' and the populist agenda contains the reversal of institutional networks seen as the interests of the elite conspiracy to straddle the people. Populism sweeps the world in the form of religious populism, ethnic/racial populism, class populism, national populism, and populism of civilization. [1] In Indonesia, social, political phenomena that occur also shows the dynamics of populism that involve religious groups, nationalists, and mixed with elite agenda. The purpose of this paper is to answer the question, why did Islamic populism succeed in overthrowing Ahok, but failed to overthrow Jokowi, or prevent him from being elected for the second time as President of the Republic of Indonesia? I will argue that the combination of the fragmentat...