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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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Indonesia Project Phase V
Resosudarmo, B., Aspinall, E., Atmosukarto, I., Bessell, S., Bexley, A., Burke, P., Cribb, R., Dong, X., Kartaadipoetra, F., Lewis, B., McCarthy, J., Mietzner, M., Munira, L., Nisa, E., Resosudarmo, I. A. P., Tapsell, R., Warburton, E., White, S. & van der Eng, P.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
31/10/22 → 30/06/26
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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Presidential Power and its Limits in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
Australian Research Council (ARC), Australian National University (ANU)
17/03/15 → 30/09/23
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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Defending the Constitution, But Which One? The Indonesian Military, Constitutional Change, and Political Contestation, 1945– 2020
Mietzner, M., 2023, Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia. Melissa Crouch (ed.). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, p. 49-66Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Democracy and Military Oversight in Crisis: The Failed Civilianisation of Indonesia’s Ministry of Defence
Mietzner, M., 2023, In: Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs. 10, 1, p. 7-23Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Economy First: Indonesia's Calculated Underutilization of State Capacities and Democratic Resources in the Early Phase of COVID-19
Mietzner, M., 2023, Democracy, State Capacity and the Governance of COVID-19 in Asia-Oceania. Aurel Croissant and Olli Hellmann (ed.). 1 ed. United Kingdom: Routledge, p. 153-170Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Elite opposition and popular rejection: the failure of presidential term limit evasion in Widodo’s Indonesia
Mietzner, M. & Honna, J., 2023, In: South East Asia Research. 31, 2, p. 115-131Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Controlling the Narrative, Consolidating Power: COVID-19 and Indonesia’s Deepening Democratic Crisis
Mietzner, M., 2022, In: Asian Studies. 68, 4, p. 63-77Research output: Contribution to journal › Article