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| ^ Dr Ketut Putra Erawan delivering his seminar at the ANU in July 2009. |
CDI-IPD Seminar
The 2009 Indonesian Presidential Election:
Processes, Dynamics & Outcomes
Dr Ketut Putra Erawan
Tuesday 14 July 2009.
Australian National University | Canberra
Over 30 people attended a special CDI-IPD Seminar presented by Dr Ketut Putra Erawan at the ANU on 14 July 2009. Dr Erawan is the Executive Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy at Udayana University in Bali and his presentation at the ANU assessed the processes and dynamics of the 2009 Presidential election - looking at the processes of electoral management, and the dynamics of the candidates, coalitions, legislation, strategies and consequences of the presidential election held on 8 July 2009. In his presentation, Dr Erawan focussed on the impacts of the 2008 Presidential Election Law which prescribes that candidates for President and Vice President must be nominated by a party or coalition that won at least 25% of the popular vote or (20%) of the 560 seats of the People's Representative Council in the parliamentary elections held 3 months earlier.
Further to his position as Executive Director of IPD, Dr Erawan is also a member of the Steering Committee for the Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership (AIGRP), and from 2004-08 he was the Director of the Post graduate program in Political Science at Gadjah Mada university in Yogyakarta. Dr Erawan holds a PhD in political science from Northern Illinois University USA, and his research interests include comparative politics, public policy, political parties, elections, and the political economy of South East Asian countries. Recent publications include “Building Models of Party Transformation in Indonesia”, co-authored with Jaka Tri Widaryanto and Nur Azizah, and “Tracing Decentralization Process in Indonesia”.
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