Indonesia: Digital Communications Energising New Political Generation’s Campaign for Democracy

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• Indonesian youth increasingly rely on digital communications to learn about politics, form political attitudes, and engage in political campaigns and protests.
• Online engagement shapes the fluid political identity of ‘critical young netizens’ with their own repertoires of ‘connective action’ (defined as collective actions based on digital connectivity) to manifest their deepening alienation from the dominant political culture.
• Young netizen participation in the #ReformasiDikorupsi protest adds new energy to existing democracy movements, and helps to expand their public support base.
• This new political generation evolving from the combined experience of connective and collective actions is likely to have significant impact on Indonesia’s democracy in the years to come