In this episode of Talking Indonesia, the host speaks with Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir, an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies and the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study in Germany. Together, they discuss how the ‘preman state’—the New Order period of Suharto’s authoritarian regime filled with stories of shadowy figures, underworld groups, militia, and criminal gangs—persists in Indonesia.
This episode was produced by NYSEAN Partner, Indonesia at Melbourne.
