The majority of contributions to this volume, with the exception of those by Marcus Mietzner, Ross Tapsell and Thomas Power , were developed out of papers presented at the 37th annual Indonesia Update conference, held at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, on 6-7 September 2019.
At each of the annual ANU Indonesia Updates since 2014, authors of the political update papers expressed growing concern about the downhill trajectory of Indonesia's democracy.