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2 months

🧵Alnick's Socialist Economics Reading List This is a list of articles or about politics, policy, and economics that I think are interesting/useful in understanding how to build a socialist economy + help to understand my perspectives on things. Will update it as I read more.

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@alnickmnathan

19 days

Many people mistake this tweet as a left-egalitarian position but actually this is the right-libertarian position

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10 months

Not a single indonesian deserves to fly the flag of palestine, to speak of palestinian liberation, or post watermelon on their social media. None.

CNN Indonesia

@CNNIndonesia

10 months

Mahasiswa Usir Paksa Rohingya di BMA Aceh, Tangis Pengungsi Pecah

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9 months

Supporters of anies baswedan are whitewashing HRS records, especially his involvement in FPI, his organisation's records of opposing religious pluralism, religious minorities, not to mention morality vigilantism/rackeetering. Anies supporters are as idiotic as 02's supporters.

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@anakbaik1997

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@pandji Ternyata itu menantu nya habib Rizieq.. klo dia nya skrg Udeh melunak bang 🥹

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@alnickmnathan

9 months

Contrast this with the legislative candidates from the labour party. You have domestic workers, factory workers, urban poor, etc who were forced by circumstances to become activists, organisers, and union leaders to advocate for their own & other people's socioeconomic rights.

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@menghanyurkan

9 months

kalo u gak tau ngapain nyaleg????????? Nanti pas u nyaleg u mau ngapain kalo gak tau??????????????????????????????

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Indonesia cannot adopt the finnish education system because, unlike finland, we don't have social democratic institutions like strong unions, centralised wage bargaining, and universal welfare state that produces low social inequality, a precondition for their education system.

Sabhrina Aninta 🍥

@sagitaninta

25 days

Tahu ngga kenapa kita belum cocok adopsi pendidikan Finland? - Infrastruktur pendidikan gak sama - Kultur masyarakat gak sama Kita harus bisa melihat MELAMPAUI "sistem pendidikan Finland". Dengan karakter masyarakat yang bagaimana, anak dididik seperti apa?

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@alnickmnathan

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That Rp400k you pay for JKN is not for you, personally, but to pay for the healthcare treatment cost of some lower class person who lived in one of jakarta's slums when they were injured after being crushed by a car driven by an FH UI student while walking on the sidewalk.

happygoleftist🇮🇩🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌱⚒️

@SateDimas

15 days

@flonoviadinda gak berasa manfaatnya bpjs kes 400rb krn dah bayar asuransi swasta 1,3jt, harusnya pemerintah sbg regulator menggabungkan iuran bpjs kes dgn premi asuransi swasta biar yg bayar merasakan manfaatnya, malah bikin omnibus law kesehatan yg bikin pekerja makin dieksploitasi

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@alnickmnathan

2 years

The new Indonesian Labour Party was officially listed as a participant for the 2024 general election. The party is formed by an alliance of the largest labour union confederations (KSPSI, KSPI, KSBSI), the Indonesian Farmers' Union (SPI), and other civil society organisations.

Partai Buruh

@EXCOPARTAIBURUH

2 years

Sejarah Partai Buruh No. Urut 6 Sebagai Peserta Pemilu Untuk 2024 di KPU - RI (14/12/2022) #WeAreTheWorkingClass #PartaiBuruh #KelasPekerja #klaspekerja #BuruhBersatu #PartaiBuruhMenang #NegaraSejahtera #WelfareState

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@alnickmnathan

8 months

Whatever the results, fight like hell. Fight for yourself, your friends, family, loved ones, and your co-workers. Fight for the strangers whose names you don't know, for those who are similar to you, and for those different from you. The road to social democracy is still long.

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@alnickmnathan

1 year

A bold move by an HR person to publicly declare their intention to violate the indonesian constitution, human rights law, and labour laws on individual's equal access to jobs without discrimination. Usually they tend to be more covert (e.g. alleged blacklist of union activists).

Reffi_UzuiKim #22WaystoSelfLove

@Reffi_angel

1 year

Gen-Z model begini udah kutandain karena aku bagian Recruitment, ga akan kuizinin masuk di kantorku. Kalau ada teman HR yang nanyain soal medsos checking, akan kusodorin thread ini. Oya, tentu kuscreenshot dulu dong, misal diapus. Alasannya? Here I tell you...

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@alnickmnathan

2 months

One of the reasons rice is more expensive in indonesia than global market price are: restrictions on rice imports, so-called "rice racketering", low productivity due to increasing land concentration by landlords. My Q: Do you think other presidents would be able to solve this?

alejandro carlos

@alejandcarls

2 months

@neueann @alnickmnathan UK ga ada sawah harga beras cuman 52 penny. Udah akuin aja emang mulyono Gagal mengendalikan harga

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10 months

So anies baswedan agrees to crush "communism", "marxism", "secularism", "religious blasphemy", etc but in reality he is very pluralistic, intellectual, and tolerant. So does that mean that he is a liar who is willing to say or agrees to anything as long as he got the votes?

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@sociotalker

10 months

mungkin kang @zenrs bisa bikinin pakta integritas versi intelektual buat mas anies sepakati.

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@alnickmnathan

10 months

The suburban area around tangerang was a land giveaway from soeharto to private real estate developers during the new order. You are standing on the corpse of weak state capacity hollowed out by privatisation, clientielist goverance, and politically-disorganised citizens.

raihan aulia

@raihanaulia_rar

10 months

Ruang terbuka✅ Gratis ✅ Bisa dikunjungi siapa saja✅ Bisa diakses transportasi umum✅ Banyak makanan minuman✅ Terimakasih Pemkot Tangsel karena sudah GA NGAPA-NGAPAIN untuk menyediakan ruang publik bagi warganya sendiri

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@alnickmnathan

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Since when can the president of indonesia control the global macroeconomy? The growth during SBY was supported by commodity boom, ending in the 2010s. By the time jokowi was elected, manufacturing industries were already stagnant, no commodity boom, income inequality was high.

Wibu Biasa Aja Sumpah 🐿🦉🐧

@BudiBukanIntel

2 months

Mulyono sama nadiem makarim ini penyebabnya

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@alnickmnathan

5 months

The "indonesia kaya sumberdaya alam" is a myth. A nation's wealth is determined not by its natural resources, but its ability to mobilise whatever resources at its disposal (natural, human, technology) to upgrade its productive capacities & improve its people's well-being.

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@farisrachman_1

5 months

This is such a bad myth. Indonesia bukan negara kaya sumber daya alam.

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@alnickmnathan

5 months

Homeownership ideology is a disaster. They copied singapore but without doing anything to increase housing supply in the cities. You solve the housing crisis by legalising dense, multi-family housing in urban areas & protection of tenant rights.

CNN Indonesia

@CNNIndonesia

5 months

Siap-siap, Gaji Pekerja Swasta Dipotong Simpanan Tapera per Tanggal 10

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@alnickmnathan

8 months

Many indonesians are still not mature when it comes to politics. Treating politics, politicians, or political parties like fandom, virtue-signalling mechanisms, or worse as something "dirty" (kotor) to be avoided in the name of some moral purity.

L for libidinal

@undesiringmecha

8 months

“jaminan ruang demokrasi utk masyarakat dlm mengkritik kalo si ini kepilih” “Nyesel banget milih ini partai” Ayolah, kan ini bisa jadi diskusi yg produktif. Kritik PB oke aja. Mungkin krn eksklusif ke casenya mereka, sedangkan mekanisme CF ini beragam tergantung lanskap kawasan

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@alnickmnathan

11 months

Congratulations to indonesian economists, technocrats, policy experts, and academics for helping foster this kind of discourse: political representatives are only reserved to people with higher education & regular people without higher education don't deserve to be politicians.

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@alnickmnathan

2 months

Hadiz & robison thesis was in 2004 (20 years ago), not including hadiz's earlier papers. As long as one variable (politically well-organised workers, lower class, liberals, reformists) is missing, the social structure where political-economic elites are dominant is a constant.

Wisnu Prasetya

@wisnu_prasetya

2 months

Tentang kartelisasi partai politik di Indonesia, selalu inget bukunya mas Dodi Ambardi yg terbit 2009. Banyak yang sudah ngasih tesis bantahan, tapi ternyata sampai sekarang masih relevan.

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@alnickmnathan

2 years

That there is no tenant protection laws, nor any political movement advocating for it, in Indonesia is the result of pervasive home-ownership ideology: the view that rental housing is merely "transitional" or "for the poor", and thus an illegitimate form of housing tenure.

Elisa

@elisa_jkt

2 years

Meanwhile, a private rental unit in Jakarta: Windowless since decades ago. The location is just 500 m behind the most expensive addresses in Jakarta. The state does not provide any protection and subsidies to tenants.

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@alnickmnathan

6 months

Never forget that ben anderson's proposal to counter against the kramanisation of the indonesian language (which was once revolutionary & egalitarian) is to replace it with the jakartan dialect. Hands down one of the greatest troll of the indonesian social science.

Anju Gerald

@anju0gerald

6 months

Tahukah kamu bahwa menurut Anderson (1990), stratifikasi bahasa Jawa menjadi ngoko, kromo, dan kromo inggil adalah upaya elit keraton mempertahankan hegemoni dan menciptakan mistisisme untuk kelas atas pasca kolonialisme yang telah merenggut kekuasaan politik pada waktu itu.

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Indonesian intellectuals, technocrats, political scientists, lawyers, left-liberal types, etc. would probably have a heart attack if they read about how the swedish social democratic party won political power & built an egalitarian welfare state.

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@alnickmnathan

2 years

Is "skill mismatch" a real problem? Yes Does the mainstream discourse problematise the issue correctly? No Are employers full of themselves when claiming of "skill mismatch"? Probably yes Is it an urgent problem to be addressed? No Does solving it also solve unemployment? No

Senza Arsendy 🍉

@senzarsendy

2 years

My new article is out on @ConversationIDN : . Narasi skills mismatch berpotensi menstigma pelamar kerja sambil terus menormalisasi kebobrokan perusahaan. Dalam narasi ini, peran institusi pendidikan rentan direduksi sekadar menghasilkan tenaga siap kerja.

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@alnickmnathan

5 months

Social justice is not about creating a society where everyone can access higher education to achieve economic security, but creating a society where everyone has economic security without the need to access higher education.

Project Multatuli

@projectm_org

5 months

Opini kamu tentang pendidikan tinggi yang bisa membuat kamu ada di posisi ini?

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@alnickmnathan

15 days

Not gonna lie, a twitter user named "happygoleftist" with blue resistance garuda indonesia pfp supporting private healthcare over socialised healthcare is almost a caricature of post-1998 indonesian progressivism.

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@alnickmnathan

2 months

This only makes sense if either you are not familiar with the history of labour & socialist movements across the world or you have a political understanding of a 12 years old.

Arjuna Sky Kok (👉, ⚡)

@arjunaskykok

2 months

A /r/indonesia redditor created a beautiful poem: "Communist until you get rich, Feminist until you get married, Atheist until the plane starts falling, Activism until you get power" It rhymes.

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@alnickmnathan

8 months

The fetishisation of "hard" science (STEM) is the other side of the same anti-science coin. It understands science, not as a way of thinking or processes, but as a technical tool. And if one sees through a technical lens, other perspectives are just problems to be bludgeoned.

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@alnickmnathan

10 months

@wongjerang6 Almost all of them

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@alnickmnathan

1 year

Yes, but when I wrote this piece a year ago, showing that small (informal) businesses paid lower wages than larger businesses, have worse working conditions due to informal labour relations, etc, everyone was having a meltdown & calling me names.

Nabiyla Risfa Izzati

@nabiylarisfa

1 year

Selalu sedih kalau baca cerita soal gaji karyawan F&B di timeline. Kayaknya belakangan makin suram karena (selain pandemi) ketentuan di UUCK memberikan pengecualian upah minimum bagi Usaha Kecil Mikro. Nah, F&B banyak masuk kategori ini. “Legal” deh ngasih upah dibawah UMK ☹️

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@alnickmnathan

9 months

"Neohistoria" spreads false anti-communist myth that legitimise mass killings. There was never any proof except for circumstancial evidence that the communist party was involved in the kidnapping & killings of army generals in 1 october 1965. There was no "red terror".

Neo Historia Indonesia

@neohistoria_id

9 months

Pasca terjadinya Teror Merah oleh Partai Komunis Indonesia pada 30 September dan 1 Oktober 1965, situasi dalam negeri kacau, ditambah kondisi ekonomi yang semakin memburuk, sehingga ketidakpuasan merebak di mana-mana.

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@alnickmnathan

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This is false. Historically, women participated in economic/production activities no different than men. The rise of single-earner households only comes later, ironically, with income effects resulting from industrialisation, economic growth, and rise in higher-paid jobs.

snoopy

@bincangurban

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Ini juga kenapa zaman dulu gender roles bisa pakem (laki-laki bekerja dari jam 7 sampai 4, perempuan mengurus rumah dan anak) karena MASUK AKAL utk hidup dgn single income. “Cewek zaman sekarang gak bisa diatur, maunya kerja!” ya soalnya kalo suaminya doang yg kerja gak cukup🙏🏻

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@alnickmnathan

10 months

A thread on DPR and DPRD candidates from the labour party that are worth considering for the 2024 general election (please due to also check their backgrounds & track records yourself to make up your mind):

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@alnickmnathan

3 years

My take regarding the recent changes to Jaminan Hari Tua (JHT). The JHT function more as a substitute for unemployment insurance (UI) due to an absence of UI in Indonesia. Until a more inclusive & comprehensive UI exist, the changes are harmful to workers.

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@alnickmnathan

2 months

Do people genuinely believe that the industrialisation drive under suharto (1970s-1990s) succeeded because our population was well-educated?

Radja Thaher

@radjathaher

2 months

Waduh susah juga ini kita mau industrialisasi kalau kebanyakan tenaga kerja tamatan SD Susah juga buat menjalankan demokrasi

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@alnickmnathan

3 years

My piece in @indoprogress on small business fetishism in Indonesia. Small business have lower productivity, lower wages, employ insecure informal workers. The dominance of small business in Indonesia is a symptom of a dysfunctional economy that is hostile to the working class.

IndoPROGRESS

@indoprogress

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“UMKM adalah pilar penting dalam membangun ekonomi bangsa.” Selalu ada narasi yang membesar-besarkan peran usaha kecil dalam perekonomian negara. Ketimbang mendorong solidaritas terhadap buruh, narasinya malah jatuh pada romantisasi kesuksesan para wirausahawan.

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@alnickmnathan

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I am so pissed that I have to pay taxes to finance roads, hospitals, and schools in sulawesi, kalimantan, and maluku even though I will never step my foot there and for social assistance programs for the poor that I will never receive. I demand the government to reduce my taxes.

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@alnickmnathan

9 months

"Actually, its not HRS that is directly responsible for those actions" I want you to ask yourself what does it says that a person thought its fine or did not raise objection when an organisation they're closely affiliated with are persecuting religious/social minorities.

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@alnickmnathan

6 months

There is a common viewpoint among the socioeconomic middle strata that they are being disproportionately extorted through taxation without receiving any welfare benefits. Ignoring all explicit/implicit subidies for them & implying the poor have it real good with bansos welfare.

🧾 ASN ini beda

@pejabrut

6 months

Good morning remah-remah rengginang! 😢

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@alnickmnathan

10 days

Now scale it up to meet the needs of +12 million people in urban agglomeration and see how much land it would take up to be able to provide every family of 3-5 people one house like this.

𝟒𝟎𝟒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃

@sexy_killer404

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Mengapa rumah atau bangunan jaman kolonial berhawa sejuk atau dingin meskipun tidak memakai ac ?

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@alnickmnathan

2 months

Muhammad hatta refused to participate in political parties & mass movements advocating for the interests of the lower classes/"rakyat" over slight ideological differences, then cried when he became further & further isolated from political power.

Prasdianto

@kamentrader

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"Anak muda boleh pandai beretorika, tapi juga harus sadar untuk mewujudkan kemakmuran dan kesejahteraan rakyat yang menjadi cita-cita. Tindakan jauh lebih penting daripada kata-kata" -Bung Hatta (juga)- Mari bermain kutipan para bapak Bangsa.

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@alnickmnathan

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Indonesians, especially the highly educated types, secretly have anti-poor/class bias. The veneration of formal education & credentialism is downstream from the fact that the lower classes are less likely to have them & so can be excluded from the political/public policy process.

Rodri Tanoto (陳曉陽)

@RodriChen

4 months

Sekilas kritik ini seperti deja vu utk konteks Indonesia, tapi para ahli kesehatan global ini tdk pernah mengkritik si bos NHS "karena dia bukan dokter", tapi fokusnya selalu kepada bagaimana dia memperlakukan sistem kesehatan, sebuah NHS, selayaknya bank. Dua sistem berbeda.

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@alnickmnathan

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Contributing to 39% of the national GDP and 3% of jobs despite only accounting for 0.01% of total firms.

Afifah Afra

@afifahafra79

8 months

Terus, gunanya segelintir pengusaha besar yang menjadi oligarki itu apa dong?

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@alnickmnathan

2 years

Education policies are not my forte. But its inarguable that there are numerous problems with the Indonesian education system. This is an excellent overview by Andrew Rosser that are useful to understand what are the problems & its impacts to students.

Beyond access: Making Indonesia’s education system work

Indonesia’s education system is low in quality and the underlying causes are political.

www.lowyinstitute.org

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@alnickmnathan

7 months

You can sort of imagine the kind of human capabilities and potential that can be unleashed if only society doesn't collectively decide that a large proportion of the population must live in abject poverty & economic insecurity.

C'est Jessica 🦋

@your_astropsych

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Aku terpesona dengan drivel ojol ini yang ketika senggang menunggu pesanan resto/penumpang, beliau belajar Python dari buku O'Reilly menggunakan handphone nya. Beliau bercerita pernah masuk di dunia Front-End dan ikut kelas gratis, tapi beliau belum dapet "konsep" nya.

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If criticism of anies & anies' political coalition makes his supporters defensive or permissive on actual public issue records. I am sorry, you are no different than PSI politicians who are so blinded by their support for jokowi, they now support his political dynasty & prabowo.

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@alnickmnathan

8 months

"Out of 1.078 teenagers having birth, 976 were not married." This doesn't show that yogyakarta has the highest "free sex" rate. It just implies that yogyakartan teenagers are (probably) less likely to use contraceptives than other cities.

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1 year

The Urban Poor Consortium & Jaringan Rakyat Miskin Kota had a long record of advocating the interests of urban poor in Jakarta. Help them as nuch as you can. @projectm_org had written few articles on their advocacy efforts: 1) 2)

hyp

@shortestshadow

1 year

Bantu #CalegPinggiran merebut Pemilu dari elit. #PolitikKelasPekerja #WeAreTheWorkingClass

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@alnickmnathan

8 months

I am fascinated by indonesian leftist discourse on a purely discursive basis. In this case, the argument that some people (urban poor) lack the privilege to golput is then responded by arguing that other people (west papuans) lack the privilege to not golput.

L for libidinal

@undesiringmecha

8 months

Btw, golput jangan cuma dilihat dalam pemaknaan yg individualistik. Di realitas lain, golput itu keputusan kolektif yg berasal dari proses demokrasi. Justru, gak semua privilege dan bisa afford untuk memilih dan berkontrak parsial. Misal 👇

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@alnickmnathan

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@gyupuppiy It's an extrajudicial execution & bad. If you support the execution, you are no better than FPI footsoldiers who are willing to break laws & persecute minorities in the name of religious morality.

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@alnickmnathan

9 months

@SirupPisangIjo You can say he changed his viewpoints (doubtful) without whitewashing his actual political track records. It's not that difficult. You are no different than PSI politicians whitewashing prabowo's track records just because suddenly jokowi supports him.

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@alnickmnathan

2 months

I could imagine an indonesia where liberal democracy survived, the 1965 massacre never occurred, and the communist party won power democratically, but later was forced to liberalise like china or vietnam & to do that they had to enlist the US-trained economists for help.

Faris Abdurrachman

@farisrachman_1

2 months

@Eduardlazarus People need to be fair in ascribing blame. The Berkeley technocrats’ policies would’ve been good no matter who is in charge. Indonesia would’ve been worse if they weren’t in charge, that’s all that matters :)

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@alnickmnathan

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Its difficult for me to blame the "government" as responsible for romanticising small businesses when in fact they are dandhy laksono's & farid gaban's (two prominent journalist/activist & populist figures) whole schtick.

Nabiyla Risfa Izzati

@nabiylarisfa

3 months

Masalahnya, yg paling meromantisasi UMKM itu pemerintah. Di UU Cipta Kerja, Usaha Kecil Mikro (Menengah nggak termasuk), dilegalkan untuk ngasih gaji dibawah upah minimum, cukup “kesepakatan” dengan standar yang nyaris nggak ada.

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7 months

Obviously the poor & low income groups are more economically disadvantaged than you white-collar middle income groups who are currently studying abroad.

Ardianto Satriawan

@ardisatriawan

7 months

Upper class: punya uang unlimited, semua gak masalah. Lower class: ada subsidi, bantuan, dan fasilitas seperti KIP Middle class: gak punya cukup uang, gak ada bantuan, elu tuh gak diajak.

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@alnickmnathan

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Hal hill, anne booth, vedi hadiz, etc, despite their disagreements are of the consensus that economic development under soeharto were relatively successful in bringing structural transformation & income growth. DESPITE the inefficiencies, the authoritarianism, the inequality.

Chris Wibisana

@ChrisWibisana

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Mafia Berkeley itu berhasil ngibulin rakyat dengan fiksi statistik. Bukan aku yang bilang, tapi kakak tingkatmu, FE 1950. Bukannya berefleksi, kau malah ikutan ngibul! Orientasi planning kita masih top-down. Rakyat cuma jadi penonton, dipaksa puas kecipratan getah pembangunan

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@alnickmnathan

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Continuing the tradition of romanticising mass actions, even referencing may 1968 france is very appropriate. After 1968, the vote for france's socialist parties collapsed & the conservative de gaullist party won an electoral landslide.

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@parlefeu

8 months

Salah satu slogan revolusi mahasiswa Prancis 1968 adalah "Sous les pavés, la plage (di bawah jalanan, pantai)." Melihat foto ini, saya pikir kita bisa melanjutkan slogan itu mjd "Sous les pavés, la plage. Au-dessus, l'arc-en-ciel (di bawah jalanan, pantai. Di atasnya, pelangi)."

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@alnickmnathan

8 months

My two cents on 2024 election: 1) "jokowi's effect" is real = pro-jokowi shift to prabowo but party votes unchanged 2) money & bansos politics reciprocity is significant 3) education level effect is small 4) depoliticisation of voters = ensuring the effect of all above is strong

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@alnickmnathan

3 months

The road to the welfare state in indonesia is steep because most people still believe that it is the responsibility of individuals, and not society or the state, to provide economic security or social care for their families. Believing otherwise is seen as "western values".

Angga PF

@AnggaPutraF

3 months

Makanya penjelasan sandwich generation itu gak masuk di boomer dan early X. Karena itu yang mereka lakukan untuk survive. Sandwich generation jadi terasa berat karena diiterasi hari ini sama values western.

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@alnickmnathan

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Anies supporters think they are being clever are they? Mentioning the km50 execution, showing pictures of prabowo, jokowi, other political elites fraternising with the anti-ahok actions. It doesn't work on me: i despise all of them equally. Inc. Ahok.

Rahadian Aditya

@adibibot

9 months

@alnickmnathan

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@alnickmnathan

7 months

What people think "middle class" is: the people in the middle of the national income distribution What the "middle class" actually is: people in the top 20% of national income distribution You are a single worker earning jakarta's minimum wage? Congrats, you are "middle class".

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@alnickmnathan

1 year

Next week, I will be starting my master studies in economic policy at SOAS. It's been a long journey, but it's just another signpost pointing to another arduous road ahead. Here's for survival.

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@alnickmnathan

2 months

You need to be able to explain why, in contrast to the present day, the "famished and poor" in the 1950-1960s chose to join labour unions/organisations, the communist movement, supporting land reforms, redistributive policies, terrorising landowners & the bourgeoise, etc.

Audhina✨

@audhinafh

2 months

Liat profil wiki seseorang trus mayan 'deg' baca ini 👀

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@alnickmnathan

5 months

In the 1960s uneducated peasants, organised by the communist party, were able to do social research on rural inequality that was used to promote land reform. Urban workers & lower class women were politically educated. They were later killed, jailed, tortured by the army in 1965.

solikin mati ketiban radio

@fikridroid

5 months

@poordeimos @silvaaa100 @fariss_rachman @AzvinHutama Bener sih, idealnya sih sebelum reformasi masyarakat kita sudah mengalami aufklarung seperti Eropa abad pertengahan. Karena belum tercerahkan semua hasilnya demokrasi pun jalan di tempat dan bahkan cenderung mengalami kemunduran

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@alnickmnathan

4 months

That "marxism-leninism" and "communism" are legally banned ideologies is not that big of an obstacle for the growth of socialist politics if you are willing to think creatively, pragmatically, flexibly, and shed some of the ideological marxist dogmatism.

Rizki Salminen 💜

@tilehopper

4 months

Blok oposisi liberal / kiri di Indonesia bisa kuat, kalau bisa ajarin kerangka berpikir politiknya, bisa bikin program kaderisasi secara ideologi sama dengan PKS dan kawan-kawan. Lha ideologinya aja di larang. Mau gimana coba

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@alnickmnathan

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In the tax you pay, regardless of how much of it ends up in misallocation or corruption, entails some of the rights of the poor, welfare program recipients, people who accessed cheap public and social services, workers getting social security benefits, etc.

Nabiyla Risfa Izzati

@nabiylarisfa

1 month

Kesimpulan dari baca ribut2 pagi ini: “oooh ternyata panik juga ya kalau rakyat jelata jadi pada males bayar pajak.”

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@alnickmnathan

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Reminder that the communist party was able to teach uneducated peasants about political economy & social research. The result is the "seven village devils" report on rural class inequality. Uneducated peasants in the 1960s did better research than most college students today.

كريم ناس Karim Nas

@karimnas_

6 months

Penceramah agama lebih populer dibanding dosen/akademisi adalah penjelasan kenapa Vietnam bakal menjadi negara terbesar di ASEAN dalam beberapa dekade ke depan meninggalkan Indonesia jauh di belakang.

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@alnickmnathan

7 months

You don't hate asian education system. You hate not having a big welfare state & a strong labour market that can reduce economic inequality while ensuring economic security across an individual's life cycle

Angga

@anggadwia_

7 months

It’s okay kalo punya perbedaan pandangan ya Tp IMO, pendidikan model ‘asia’ gini berasa banget toxicnya pas anak udh mulai dewasa Lulus kuliah harus segera kerja -> dapet gaji besar -> kirim sebagian ke orang tua -> naik gaji terus sampai tak terhingga -> investasi ortu balik

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@alnickmnathan

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A pro-worker & pro-family agenda would entail: 1) Public childcare provision 2) Public social insurance-based gender equal paid parental leave 2) State-funded monthly child/family allowance 3) Free public health insurance for children 4) Free pre-K & primary + secondary school

Meutia Faradilla

@meutiafaradilla

3 months

Pemerintah mulai panik karena angka kelahiran mulai turun, tapi nggak mau menyentuh inti masalah. Mulai dari beban pengasuhan yg hanya diletakkan pada perempuan sampai harga² barang & layanan yg semakin mahal. Yg dilakukan malah menakuti dan guilt-tripping, khususnya pd perempuan

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@alnickmnathan

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Removing all the employer's contribution (Rp838,080) + "potongan tunjangan kesehatan" that is obviously employer's private health benefits (Rp1,296,067) would put the effective payroll tax that this person pays at Rp653k or 7.5% of their monthly income of Rp8.6 million.

F N D S 🙇‍♀️

@flonoviadinda

15 days

Tiap bulan, potongan gaji aja udah sebanyak ini, terus masih bakal dipotong lagi buat Tapera??? Demi Allah ga ridho dan ikhlas sama sekali.

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@alnickmnathan

8 months

Indonesian student activists/movements never learn. Why do they refuse to learn? Are they attracted to the movement because they want to achieve power to bring lasting & institutionalised changes, or are they attracted to the movement because of the aesthetics of resistance?

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@alnickmnathan

5 months

This is the conservative welfarism under esping-andersen's typology: social welfare & care provisions are primarily the responsibility of the family (more specifically, wives/female family members). The aim of social policy is to reinforce the traditional/family institutions.

kumparan

@kumparan

5 months

Menteri Sosial Tri Rismaharini menolak konsep panti jompo. Menurutnya, itu bukan bagian dari budaya Indonesia. #newsupdate #update #news #quote

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@alnickmnathan

1 year

It's hard to believe that this book existed because benedict anderson was banned from indonesia (his original expertise) by the soeharto's regime, leading anderson to more seriously research about other southeast asian countries & eventually to the question of nationalism.

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

@daniel_dsj2110

1 year

Benedict Anderson’s, “Imagined Communities,” was published 40 years ago in 1983. Given the current times, a bit surprising that not much has been written, as far as I know, on the fortieth anniversary of the book.

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@alnickmnathan

2 months

Comparing the price of milk between indonesia with a country/region where dairy production & consumption were part of a long-standing history & whose producers earn so many subsidies from the governments + EU's Common Agricultural Policy that china challenged them to WTO.

hanyur

@menghanyurkan

2 months

di sini susu macam gitu 0.50€... harganya mirip... lebih murah dikit... upah minimum 8x lipat... gws...

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@alnickmnathan

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Economists keep erasing the history of labour movement & social movements from the lower classes in advocating for material improvements. It's the blue-collar workers in the factories & shops that presently joining unions, mobilising in the streets, and demanding policy reforms.

🔴⚫️Rey

@santonology

6 months

Kelas menengah adalah certified complainer kalau kata bang Chatib Basri. Ini jelas typical tweet kelas menengah dan complainnya valid. Uang yg kita bayarin harus jadi sesuatu. Selama air keran belum bisa diminum, kita berhak bertanya bayar air PAM buat apa, misal.

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@alnickmnathan

4 months

This is not remotely true if you define "middle class" as professional white-collar workers. Lots of (women) urban factory/blue-collar workers also need child care services considering that their parents or relatives are, well, in their villlages or different cities than them.

♋️Zhu♋️

@Engayneering

4 months

Kenapa? Karena isu Tempat Penitipan Anak ini yaa isunya kelas menengah yang suami dan istri bekerja, merantau, dan tidak bisa bekerja sama dengan orang tua/mertua mereka sehingga mereka butuh intervensi/bantuan 3rd party untuk menjaga anak-anak mereka.

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@alnickmnathan

1 year

In a normal & well-functioning society, if you want to make social changes you don't join an NGO. You join a political organisation supporting a common policy agenda hell-bent on attaining power & controlling the state so you can prosecute your desired policy agenda.

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@alnickmnathan

2 years

PP 36/2021 on Wage (based on the "Job Creation" omnibus law) give small businesses (UMK) exemptions on paying the provincial minimum wage as long as it isn't lower than (at the provincial level): 1) 50% of average monthly per capita expenditure OR 2) 125% of poverty line 1/

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@alnickmnathan

8 months

Indonesia mengajar was adapted from the US teach for america program. TFA was part of the so-called education reform movement that sought to blame low quality education outcomes on teachers & public sector unions instead of the underfunding of schools, poverty, and inequality.

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@alnickmnathan

6 months

The success of vietnam can be traced to (1) land reforms pursued by vietnam communists even during the war; and (2) 1980s doi moi pro-market reforms of economic liberalisation & export-oriented industries. Two key combinations for economic development, among others.

Satrio Rahardjo

@xathrya

7 months

Vietnam itu founding father-nya begini; kurus kering gaya sederhana tapi actual war leader sukses ngusir Prancis & Amerika Founding father Indon gayanya doang militeris hobi nempel piagam di baju, tp hobinya kawin.

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@alnickmnathan

2 years

@tanikelana Some studies: 1) 2) 3) 4) In short: 1) property developers are politically connected to Suharto 2) low capacity & commitment from the government 3) ideology of homeownership

The Change and Transformation of Indonesian Spatial Planning after Suharto's New Order Regime: The...

The fall of the New Order regime has spurred the process of democratization and marked the transformation of Indonesia from authoritarian rule into a more democratic government. The new system of g...

www.tandfonline.com

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@alnickmnathan

2 years

If you include compulsory social security tax (Provident Fund) of 17-20%, the top marginal income tax rate is around 42%. Their income tax is also broader, median income of S$4000/month is in 7% income tax bracket. Indonesia 5% tax bracket first hit 1.5x average monthly income.

Mirza

@em_er_zet

2 years

Ternyata di Singapore PPh maksimal 22% tapi air keran bisa diminum, ada pengolahan limbah, kemana2 bisa pake mrt, bahkan ada tahura gede banget.

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@alnickmnathan

1 year

People lashing out because other people pointed out that their moral & philosophical frameworks are often incoherent. They are already explicit: why do indonesians only support victims of oppression when they are constructed as "having the same religion" but not the others?

Herriy Cahyadi

@herricahyadi

1 year

Memang sulit dimengerti, mengapa jurnalis dan cofounder @projectm_org ini sedemikian nyinyir thdp isu Palestina dan menggunakan bahasa ledekan thdp orang-orang beriman. Kenapa kalian harus memunculkan narasi seperti ini di saat kemanusiaan kita semua sedang diuji?

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@alnickmnathan

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Thread: Class Dynamics and Agrarian Change in Indonesia In Indonesia, agrarian conflicts are normally defined as open conflicts between rural villagers & "peasantries" against the encroachment or land grab by capital or the state. (e.g. ) 1/

Extended Agrarian Question in Concessionary Capitalism: The Jakarta’s Kaum Miskin Kota - Bosman...

This article reassesses agrarian questions by using the ongoing explosion in urban and urbanization theories to explain Jakarta’s urban poor (the Kaum Miskin Ko...

journals.sagepub.com

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@alnickmnathan

1 year

Maybe someone can explain to me why the NGO/intelligentsia types consistently fall back on nativism, agrarian romanticism, and hatred of urban migrant population whenever they talk about social problems in yogyakarta.

Project Multatuli

@projectm_org

1 year

Dampak penyusutan kawasan pertanian bagi petani bukan cuma masalah lahan, tapi juga masalah biaya produksi, pilihan profesi, bahkan masalah relasi dengan para pendatang. Reportase oleh Finlan Adhitya Aldan dan Abidah Naqiya.

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@alnickmnathan

11 months

Indonesia does not have an adequate legal framework to manage refugees, such as by not ratifying the 1951 convention on refugees. As a result, refugees don't have any legal rights or entitlements & the state effectively outsource refugee management to (under-resourced) people.

Tirta

@romeogadungan

11 months

Udah hampir 14 tahun nerima gelombang kedatangan pengungsi, ngurusin mereka, masakin, ngasih makan dengan ekonomi yang sebenarnya gak dalam kondisi berlebihan juga. Eh, aktivis Twitter fafifu dari menara gading, gimana warga Aceh harusnya bersikap.

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@alnickmnathan

10 months

If you think that IISMA program is bad because it disproportionately distributes public resources to people from high socioeconomic status, you guys are not going to believe about the distributional outcomes of making higher education tuition free.

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@alnickmnathan

2 months

1. Lots of socialists & communists were high-status/upper class 2. Lots of famous feminists were married, often to fellow feminists/gender egalitarians 3. Atheism doesn't preclude universal resignation 4. Activists, historically, were in power to implement their demands/policies

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@alnickmnathan

4 months

"Bangun industri nasional" is a common slogan among labour union movements. The only social groups explicitly opposed to industrialisation as a policy agenda are environmentalists, anarchists, rural/agrarian populists, and university students.

Pai🍉

@paipiapaipia

4 months

mohon arahan diksi mana yang bagus buat memperhalus diksi "industrialisasi" sehingga lebih mudah diterima masyarakat umum, khususnya kelas pekerja

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@alnickmnathan

2 years

Mohammad Hatta: "Besides political democracy, there need also economic democracy. If not, mankind isn't yet free, there is no equality & fraternity. Because the goal of Indonesian democracy is social democracy, encompassing the whole environment which determines mankind's fate."

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@alnickmnathan

9 months

My opinion is that "vote the individuals not the party" because PB leadership is surprisingly responsive to criticism from their cadres, membership base, and even outsiders (public). They reversed their decision to support one of the presidential candidate after public criticism.

Rulie Maulana

@ruliemaulana

9 months

Ini serius banyak yang mau milih Partai Buruh yang mengajukan ketua Kadin penyusun omnibus yang juga pemilik konsesi besar lahan IKN sebagai cawapres gini? Sehat?

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@alnickmnathan

2 months

During the soekarno era, the cost of maintaining ideological purity & later allying with soekarno's "guided democracy" means the communists were permissive with the government's economic mismanagement, hyperinflation, famines, poverty. Which also materially harms a lot of people.

DrHS

@BuruhSiluman

2 months

But at what cost? This is a *purist* econ argument, leaving out the New Order political and military supports of "Berkeley Mafia" policies, which effectively dismantled peasant movements & depoliticised social movement in general.

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@alnickmnathan

4 months

Based on my twitter experience this is not exclusive to foreign-uni graduates but applies to *many* if not *most* highly-educated indonesians. Classist/anti-poor bias, reverence to credentialism, etc. implicitly view the poor & low SES indonesians as politically irredemable.

Benny Prawira Siauw

@bennysiauw89

4 months

Semoga tetap belajar menyimak dengan rendah hati & menghindari jd lulusan foreign uni kek gini 🙏

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@alnickmnathan

1 month

Prabowo-gibran (a surprisingky accurate proxy for pro-jokowi support) won with 60% of the votes. I really don't get what do liberals & left-leaning people are trying to do by engaging in denialism about the fact of majority jokowi support among the electorates.

Vincent Ricardo (柯仙森)

@vincentrcrd

1 month

Political conditioning kok dianggap wujud dari approval rating Mulyono. Gak ngerti selection bias, bro? Argumen lu jelek banget kalau gw jadi Kaesang mending gw suruh lu diem.

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@alnickmnathan

2 months

The "berkeley mafia" is good & actually improves people's material life in the long term. They were called "mafia" bcs populists/leftists wanted a boogeyman, ascribing power to an empty entity, as opposed to materialist analysis of disparaged & conflicting interests.

patricia 🍉

@thepoemzone

2 months

i saw people in the TL emailing penn to rescind erina gudono’s student status. great, but also a reminder that these institutions not only harbor but also train oligarchs outside of the western world! there’s a reason the berkeley mafia is called the berkeley mafia

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@alnickmnathan

9 months

"Since when the narrative changed"? UGM had always tried to associate themselves with the power that be. Since mbah kusno's era when they declared themselves as "socialist campus", to participating in the mass killings of 1965, and later becoming the tool of suharto's regime.

Warih Aji Pamungkas

@WAPamungkas

9 months

Dulu aku inget banget pertama kali masuk UGM langsung dapet selebaran BPPM Balairung "Selamat datang mahasiswa biasa di kampus yang biasa-biasa saja". Nggak lama kemudian Forum Selasar FISIPOL bikin #UGMMintaMaaf . Kemudian paling riuh ada aksi nggruduk rektorat bertajuk Balada

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@alnickmnathan

4 months

The myth of agrarian populism

Dandhy Laksono

@Dandhy_Laksono

4 months

Dari 138 juta orang berpenghasilan, pegawai/buruh cuma 36%. Dari 17 sektor yang paling menyerap tenaga kerja, justru pertanian, kehutanan, perikanan (alam). Aneh kalau pembangunan justru merusak sektor yang paling banyak kasih makan orang. Selengkapnya

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@alnickmnathan

1 year

Jan breman is a great labour scholar so its nice if his research is translated to Indonesian. However, Indonesians tend to know him for his research on colonial labour even though he is more renowned for his study on informal labour, both in Indonesia and especially in India.

Bonnie Triyana

@bonnietriyana

1 year

Prof Jan Breman akan kembali mnerbitkan bukunya utk publik Indonesia ttg kolonialisme dan rasisme. Naskah sedang diterjemahkan dr bhs Bld ke Indonesia. Saya mendapat kehormatan utk ikut memeriksa terjemahan dan menulis kata pengantarnya. Buku akan diterbitkan oleh @pustakaobor

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@alnickmnathan

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The "middle class" had only become the "loser" in jokowi's second term, which more represents the long-term impact of covid-19 shocks + government's lacklustre policy response & recovery efforts. Before that, they were among the main beneficiaries of growth under jokowi.

Gentle Gentiles | 🇮🇩🇵🇸🇻🇦

@anfranchise

12 days

kalo sebatas rumus CIGX mah lebih berfaedah dongeng aja. LPEM tuh make model ekonometri berkali2 konklusinya ya sama. kelas menengah ditonjok rezim. orang miskin ekstrim ga kena target program welfare. orang kaya ekstrim ga kena target perpajakan

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@alnickmnathan

1 year

The idea that political changes come from the "complaining middle class" is suspect to me. Not true in Indonesian case (see Hadiz & Murdoch school). The militant Indonesian communist movements had labourers & peasants as its social base, not exactly the imagined "consumer class".

M. Chatib Basri

@ChatibBasri

1 year

Berikut artikel saya di Kompas, 20 Oktober 2023, “ Keadilan yang Terusik dan Pembangunan Ekonomi” .

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@alnickmnathan

3 months

You can search in google & easily find an english-language journal article presenting more or less the same information as the OP's previous thread on PNAE.

gladhys elliona

@_gladhys

3 months

Selama nga ada yg bisa bahasa Portugis Brasil, atau ngerti policymaking + Konstitusi 1988 di Brasil, nga akan nyambung pemahamannya hahahahaha

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@alnickmnathan

5 months

You have it backwards. They have high taxes IN ORDER TO FINANCE good public spending. But the determinants for public spending are not "good governance" or "anti-corruption" but the strength of the labour union movement & the social democratic parties. Politics, not technocracy.

dhn 🌧️🌼

@arman_dhani

5 months

Pengen memberlakukan pajak kaya negara-negara nordik, tapi fasilitas publik kaya burik.

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