Will Indonesia’s Youth Install a Political Dynasty?
On TikTok, Gen Z Voters See the Candidates as Father Figures and Kindly Uncles. They Don’t Get the Whole Story
President Suharto’s New Order regime was a dictatorship in which he often liked to refer to the Indonesian nation as a “family” with himself at the helm—a patriarchal state.
As Indonesia’s 2024 general elections approached, the presidential front-runners were echoing this sentiment, portraying themselves as a paternalistic political dynasty of millions of children and young people under the rule of one family’s patriarch.
This attempt to establish a political dynasty is only one of three major features of this presidential election. The other two are a …
