Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
I have been interested in the politics of Indonesia since my first visit to Jakarta as a teenager in 1986. While pursuing an MA degree at Goethe University in Frankfurt in the mid-1990s, I spent one year in Ambon to collect material for my thesis on the rebellion of the South Moluccan Republic in 1950. After graduation, I moved to the ANU to obtain my PhD. During fieldwork for a thesis on the Indonesian military, I began working for USAID in Jakarta – an engagement that would last for more than seven years. Eventually, however, I returned to academia, finishing the PhD in 2005 and starting my new position as a lecturer at the ANU in 2008. Since then, my research has primarily focused on political parties in democratic Indonesia
Research interests
The political role of the military in Indonesia; Indonesian political parties, particularly campaign financing issues; elections in Indonesia; comparative electoral politics in Southeast Asia.
Qualifications
Expertise Areas
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Comparative Government and Politics
- Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
- Social Change
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Presidential Power and its Limits in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
Australian Research Council (ARC)
17/03/15 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Supporting the rules-based order in Southeast Asia (SEARBO)
Hutchcroft, P., Aspinall, E., Cheesman, N., Dressel, B., Erskine, T., Farrelly, N., Fealy, G., Kenny, P., Mietzner, M., Tapsell, R., Travouillon, K. & White, S.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
8/11/18 → 15/10/21
Project: Research
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Indonesia Project Phase IV
Lewis, B., Aspinall, E., Dong, X., Fealy, G., Jotzo, F., McCarthy, J., Mietzner, M., Patunru, A., Shrestha, R., Utomo, A. & van der Eng, P.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
17/10/16 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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Money Politics: Patronage, Political Networks and Electoral Dynamics in Southeast Asia
Aspinall, E., Hicken, A., Mietzner, M. & Weiss, M.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/14 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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Indonesia Project Phase III
Lewis, B., Aspinall, E., Fealy, G., Hill, H., Hill, H., Jotzo, F., McCarthy, J., Mietzner, M., Sparrow, R., Suryadarma, D. & Suryadarma, D.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, AusAID
2/07/12 → 30/06/17
Project: Research
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Democratic deconsolidation in Southeast Asia
Mietzner, M., 2021, 1st ed. UK: Cambridge University Press. 86 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Indonesia in 2020: COVID-19 and Jokowi’s Neo-liberal Turn
Mietzner, M., 2021, In: Southeast Asian Affairs. 2021, p. 107-121Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Authoritarian innovations in Indonesia: electoral narrowing, identity politics and executive illiberalism
Mietzner, M., 2020, In: Democratization. 27, 6, p. 1021-1036Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Economic Capacity, Regime Type, or Policy Decisions? Indonesia's Struggle with COVID-19
Mietzner, M., 2020, In: Taiwan Journal of Democracy. 16, 2, p. 1-29Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Indonesia: the military’s transformation from praetorian ruler to presidential coalition partner
Mietzner, M., 2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Politics. William R Thompson (ed.). 1st ed. United States: Oxford University Press, p. 23ppResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary