http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/055af6dc9b63dbfc https://verfassungsblog.de/is-this-a-constitutional-democracy/ Is This a Constitutional Democracy - Familial Harmony, Pancasila, and Javanese Values in Indonesia’s New Government Nugraha, Ignatius Yordan Satrio, Abdurrachman eng 2024-11-07 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Indonesia Indonesien Pancasila Prabowo constitutional democracy Indonesien Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Indonesia, a country that has experimented with constitutional democracy since 1998, inaugurated its new president, Prabowo Subianto, on October 20, 2024. His so-called “Red and White Cabinet” may appear peculiar from the perspective of Western democracies due to its concentration of power. Prabowo assembled a “bloated cabinet” of 48 ministers constituting a hodge-podge of anti-Sharia pluralists, nationalists, Islamists, and others, all swearing fealty to the magico-religious Pancasila. We argue that Prabowo’s cabinet parallels the “family state”, which envisions the state as a large Indonesian family working together to maintain familial harmony.