Co-opting Good Governance Reform: The Rise of a Not-so-Reformist Leader in Kebumen, Central Java

摘要: Challenging the existing literature, which tends to downplay impact of good governance reform in post-Suharto Indonesia, article suggests that greater intervention by international donors, combined with process decentralisation, has influenced dynamics political competition at local level. It increasing availability aid provided elites an option engage a new form patronage politics relies less on old instruments, such as money and violence. By selectively committing themselves reform, Indonesian can now seek source power support from they raise their profiles ‘reformists’ consolidate power, only familiar, if blatant, forms politics. The highlights dimension reference case Kebumen's former regent, Rustriningsih.