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West Kalimantan’s ethnic leaders banned ethnic mobilization in the elections. Why would it matter?



Just a bit more than a week before the general elections, leaders of Malay, Dayak, Madurese and Chinese communities in the main previous conflict areas of West Kalimantan gathered in Pontianak and made an important decision to disallow politicians from their own ethnic communities to utilize their ethnicity as a platform for political campaigning. Cynics would say that Indonesia is a modern democracy with little space for decisions by ethnic leaders, and thus this unanimous decision by the Ethnic Communication Forum of West Kalimantan, the main platform for decisions of province’s ethnic leaders, has little or no value. Timo Kivimäki claims that this is not true. This decision by province’s ethnic leaders has major consequences both for democracy and ethnic harmony.

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