When religion trumps ethnicity: A regional election case study from Indonesia

• Main Authors: ASPINALL, Edward, DETTMAN, Sebastian Carl, WARBURTON, Eve
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: ethnicity; ethnic Chinese; elections; Islamic politics; Medan; North Sumatra; local politics; Asian Studies; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3125; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4382/viewcontent/When_religion_trumps_ethnicity_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The authors analyse the 2010 mayoral election in the city of Medan, North Sumatra. Medan is an ethnically and religiously diverse city and the authors treat the elections here as a case study of inter-communal dynamics in local elections in plural regions of Indonesia. The first round of the vote wa...