Marcus Mietzner

Marcus Mietzner is Associate Professor at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University in Canberra. He has published extensively on Indonesian politics in peer-reviewed journals, such as Asian Survey, Journal of East Asian Studies, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Australian Journal of Asian Law and South East Asia Research. His latest book is "Money, Power, and Ideology: Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia", Honolulu, Singapore and Copenhagen: Hawaii University Press, NUS Press and NIAS Press.

Working title:

"Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia" (11/12)

"Localizing Democracy in Indonesia" (14/15)

Article written during the fellowship:

Yudhoyono's Legacy between Stability and Stagnation (Southeast Asian Affairs 2012)

Previous Employment History

• Program Development Specialist, Development Alternatives, Inc., Support for Peaceful Democratization Project, Jakarta (August 2004 - January 2007)
• Program Development Specialist, Development Alternatives, Inc., USAID Program Support Initiative, Jakarta (July 2001-August 2004)
• Civil-Military Relations Advisor, USAID Office of Transition Initiatives, Jakarta (September 1999- July 2001)

Selected Publications

Books, Monographs and Edited Volumes:

• 2013. Money, Power, and Ideology: Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia. Honolulu, Singapore and Copenhagen: Hawaii University Press, NUS Press and NIAS Press, 320 pages.
• 2011. (editor) The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia: Conflict and Leadership, Routledge, London and New York, 178 pages.
• 2010. (editor, with Edward Aspinall) Problems of Democratisation in Indonesia: Elections, Institutions and Society, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 360 pages.

• 2009. Military Politics, Islam, and the State in Indonesia: From Turbulent Transition to Democratic Consolidation, KITLV Press, Leiden, 426 pages.

• 2006. The Politics of Military Reform in Post-Soeharto Indonesia: Elite Conflict, Nationalism, and Institutional Resistance, Policy Studies Series 23, East-West Center Washington, Washington D.C.

Articles in Peer-reviewed Academic Journals:

• 2013. (with N. Farrelly) 'Mutinies, Coups and Military Interventionism: Papua New Guinea and South-East Asia in Comparison', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 67, no.3, pp. 342-356 (ERA 2010 Ranking: A).
• 2013. 'Fighting the Hellhounds: Pro-democracy Activists and Party Politics in post-Suharto Indonesia', Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol. 43, no. 1, pp 28-50 (ERA 2010 Ranking: A).
• 2013. 'Praetorian Rule and Redemocratisation in South-East Asia and the Pacific Islands: The Case of Indonesia', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 297-311 (ERA 2010 Ranking: A).
• 2012. (with B. Dressel) 'A Tale of Two Courts: The Judicialization of Electoral Politics in Asia', Governance, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 391-414 (ERA 2010 Ranking: A).
• 2012, 'Ideology, Money and Dynastic leadership: The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, 1998-2012', South East Asia Research, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 511-531 (ERA 2010 Ranking: A).
• 2012. 'Indonesia: Yudhoyono's Legacy between Stability and Stagnation', Southeast Asian Affairs, vol. 2012, pp. 219-235 (ERA 2010 Ranking: A).
• 2012. 'Indonesia's Democratic Stagnation: Anti-reformist Elites and Resilient Civil Society', Democractization, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 209-229 (ERA 2010 Ranking: A).
• 2011. 'Overcoming Path Dependence: The Quality of Civilian Control of the Military in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia', Asian Journal of Political Science, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 270-289 (ERA 2010 Ranking: B).
• 2010. "Political Conflict Resolution and Democratic Consolidation in Indonesia: The Role of the Constitutional Court", Journal of East Asian Studies, Volume 13/3, pp. 397-424. (ERA Ranking: A).

• 2010. "Indonesia in 2009: Electoral Contestation and Economic Resilience", Asian Survey, Volume 50/1, pp. 185-194. (ERA Ranking: A).
• 2009. (with Nicholas Parsons) "Sharia By-Laws in Indonesia: A Legal and Political Analysis of Recent Debates", Australian Journal of Asian Law, Volume 11/2, pp. 190-217. (ERA Ranking: B).
• 2009. “Political Opinion Polling in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: Catalyst or Obstacle to Democratic Consolidation?”, Bijdragen tot the Taal-, Land, en Volkenkunde, Volume 165/2, pp. 95-126. (ERA Ranking: A*).
•  2009. “Indonesia: Democratic Consolidation in Soeharto's Shadow”, Southeast Asian Affairs 2009, pp. 105-123. (ERA Ranking: A).
•  2009. “Indonesia in 2008: Yudhoyono's Struggle for Re-election”, Asian Survey, Volume 49/1, pp. 146-155. (ERA Ranking: A).
• 2008. “The Ambivalence of Weak Legitimacy: Habibie’s Interregnum Revisited”, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, Volume 42/2, pp. 1-34. (ERA Ranking: B)
• 2008. “Comparing Indonesia’s Party Systems in the 1950s and the Post-Soeharto Era: Centrifugal versus Centripetal Inter-Party Competition”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 39/3, pp. 431-453. (ERA Ranking: B).
• 2008. “Soldiers, Parties and Bureaucrats: Illicit Fund-Raising in Contemporary Indonesia”, South East Asian Research, Volume 16/2, pp. 225-254. (ERA Ranking: A).
• 2007. “Local Elections and Autonomy in Papua and Aceh: Mitigating or Fueling Secessionism?”, Indonesia 84 (October), pp. 1-39. (ERA Ranking: A*)
• 2007. “Party Financing in Post-Soeharto Indonesia: Between State Subsidies and Political Corruption”, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Volume 29/2, pp. 238-263. (ERA Ranking: B).
• 2002. “Politics of Engagement: The Indonesian Armed Forces, Islamic Extremism, and the ‘War on Terror’”, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Volume 9/1, p. 71-84. (not ERA-ranked).

Prizes

• Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 2010, by the American Library Association, for my book “Military Politics, Islam and the State in Indonesia: From Turbulent Transition to Democratic Consolidation”.

• Nominated for ANU Outreach and Media Award, 2009.

• Ann Bates Prize for the best PhD dissertation on Indonesia, ANU, 2005.