Publications by Yatun Sastramidjaja
Inside Indonesia, 2024
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Inside Indonesia, 2024
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International Journal of Press/Politics, 2024
Coordinated influence campaigns on social media have become an increasingly important tool for po... more Coordinated influence campaigns on social media have become an increasingly important tool for political and economic elites to sway public opinion in their favor. As the study of this phenomenon has so far largely focused on traces of such campaigns on social media itself, we know relatively little about the people and networks implementing them. Furthermore, existing literature offers limited analytical handles to delineate and analyze different forms of influence operations. To address these challenges, we employ interviews with fifty-two members of the "cyber troops" implementing such operations in Indonesia. On the basis of this material, we propose that three key features-being secretly funded, highly coordinated, and involving mostly anonymous accounts-distinguish cyber troops from other types of domestic influence operations. In Indonesia cyber troops involve transient, projectbased collaborations among freelancing individuals, not coincidentally mirroring the character of the country's election campaigns. This rapidly growing industry is cementing the already oligarchic character of Indonesia's democracy.
In: Facal, G. et al. 2024. The Palgrave Handbook of Political Norms in Southeast Asia
Trends in Southeast Asia No. 12, 2023
The ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (formerly Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) is an autonomous ... more The ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (formerly Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) is an autonomous organization established in 1968. It is a regional centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security, and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment.
Trends in Southeast Asia, 2023
The ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (formerly Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) is an autonomous ... more The ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (formerly Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) is an autonomous organization established in 1968. It is a regional centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security, and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment.
Inside Indonesia, 2023
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Inside Indonesia, 2023
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ISEAS Perspective, 2022
Political buzzers use social media not only to spread propaganda, but also to expose "hidden fact... more Political buzzers use social media not only to spread propaganda, but also to expose "hidden facts", claiming to provide glimpses into the secret life of Indonesian politics.
Trends in Southeast Asia, 2022
Inside Indonesia, 2021
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ISEAS Perspective, 2021
The passing of the Omnibus Law in Parliament, on 5 October 2020, prompted mass protests and a mas... more The passing of the Omnibus Law in Parliament, on 5 October 2020, prompted mass protests and a massive upsurge in online agitation. In this picture, activists take part in a protest against a government omnibus bill on job creation, which they believe will deprive workers of their rights, in Surabaya on
ASEANFocus, 2020
Yatun Sastramidjaja examines how the digital sphere has been used for both democratisation and st... more Yatun Sastramidjaja examines how the digital sphere has been used for both democratisation and state power consolidation.
Alternatives Sud, 2020
Dans leur amplitude comme dans leur forme, les manifestations indonésiennes de 2019 contre plusie... more Dans leur amplitude comme dans leur forme, les manifestations indonésiennes de 2019 contre plusieurs projets de loi jugés antidémocratiques traduisent l'émergence d'une nouvelle généra-tion militante, dont la socialisation politique, les modes d'organisation et les registres d'expres-sion sont tributaires des espaces numériques contemporains. La mobilisation sur la toile s'arti-cule, davantage qu'elle ne se substitue, aux manifestations de rue.
ISEAS Perspective, 2020
• Indonesian youth increasingly rely on digital communications to learn about politics, form poli... more • Indonesian youth increasingly rely on digital communications to learn about politics, form political attitudes, and engage in political campaigns and protests.
American Ethnologist website, 2020
A short fiction, part of the collection “Post-Covid Fantasies,” Catherine Besteman, Heath Cabot, ... more A short fiction, part of the collection “Post-Covid Fantasies,” Catherine Besteman, Heath Cabot, and Barak Kalir, editors, American Ethnologist website, 25 August 2020.
American Ethnologist, 2019
The keywords and titles of articles published in American Ethnologist from 2016 to 2019 show a st... more The keywords and titles of articles published in American Ethnologist from 2016 to 2019 show a striking intersection of anthropological scholarship and world‐event trends. Tables and word clouds generated from recurring words expose the centrality of critical events, which appears to support recent contentions about a “crisis‐chasing” mode in anthropology today. But it conceals the multivocality of authors’ engagement with current events, while the idiosyncratic words that fill most of the keyword lists and titles in AE disrupt any generalization about anthropology's primary concerns. Therefore, aggregated key words cannot be taken at face value as signposts of relevance in anthropological scholarship. Yet those isolated words are increasingly influential in an era of digitized publishing, which compels scholars to adapt keywords to algorithmic logics of recognition. [keywords, aggregation, algorithm, relevance, anthropology, American Ethnologist]
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Abstract:
Southeast Asia has seen dramatic political and social change in the last decade. Accompanying this sea-change is the ebb and ow of popular protests, including anti- and pro-democracy movements, as well as struggles over issues of identity and the environment. Regrettably, this rich reservoir of bottom-up contention has not been fruitfully tapped by social movement studies (SMS) writ large. Tellingly, from 2010 onwards, the top two SMS journals (“Social Movement Studies” and “Mobilization”) have featured only four research entries that drew on Southeast Asian examples. When Southeast Asian movements are examined, it tends to be by area studies scholars, uninformed by the SMS literature, or by political scientists, who overwhelmingly focus on overtly political contention. This panel will therefore engage insights from SMS, facilitate comparative perspectives, and in turn, ignite intra-region and border-crossing theoretical debates. New light is then shed upon certain well-studied movements, questioning current orthodoxies, which tend to be elite-centred, and revolve around political economy and civil society frameworks.
Based on empirical research, this panel illuminates novel ways of integrating local studies of grassroots contention with SMS, whether via a culturalist lens, or an institutionalist orientation. Sensitive to local particularities, our papers will address not only the overtly political contention, but also the less obviously political, which is so often overlooked. Amidst the apparent tensions between discipline and area studies, we illustrate their mutual complementarity. The analytical rewards, we argue, are far-reaching; besides contributing to theory development, an integrationist approach reinforces the “synergy between region and discipline”