Promoting constitutional democracy through judicial transnational engagement by Melissa Crouch

• Main Author: VISSER, De Maartje
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Constitutional Law; Transnational Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4540
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Melissa Crouch’s new edited collection Constitutional Democracy In Indonesia is a timely addition to the growing corpus of Global South literature in comparative constitutional law. It interrogates the experience of one of the world’s largest jurisdictions, which has gone largely unnoticed in the discourse to date, thereby enriching our collective understanding of the operation of the constitutional democracy. The volume explores how Indonesia has grappled with constitutional evergreens, such as questions of institutional design and the relationship between different state actors, and usefully does so against the backdrop of the possible advent (again) of authoritarianism in the country